Duffield (surname)

Duffield (surname)
Duffield
Family name
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Duffield Castle
Meaning (English) Belonging to Duffield, probably the Dove-Field [Old English dufe + feld].
Region of origin England
Related names Duffeld, Duffell, Duffill, Duffitt, and others

Duffield is a family name (surname) in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States. The name Duffield is part of the legacy of Anglo-Saxon tribes of Great Britain.

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History

Families began migrating abroad in enormous numbers during the political and religious discontent in England. Some of the first immigrants to cross the Atlantic and move to North America bore the name Duffield; e.g., John Duffield, a boy of 14, landed in Virginia, USA, in 1622. Benjamin Duffield made New Jersey his home in 1678. Over the next hundred years, the name Duffield was to be found in Philadelphia and other eastern seaboard cities.

Duffield is ranked 10,366 most common out of 88,799 surnames in the United States.[1]

Noteworthy people of the name Duffield

  • David Duffield (born 1941), American software businessman
  • D. Bethune Duffield (1821–1891), American poet and attorney in Detroit, Michigan
  • George Duffield (born 1946), English stable jockey
  • Paul Duffield (born 1985), Australian rules footballer
  • Peter Duffield (born 1969), an English former professional footballer
  • Thomas Duffield (1782–1854), English farmer and Tory politician
  • Thomas Duffield (academic), a Master of University College, Oxford, England (1396–8)
  • Vivien Duffield (born 1946), British socialite and philanthropist, daughter of businessman Sir Charles Clore
  • William Ward Duffield (1823–1907), executive in the coal industry, a railroad construction engineer, and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War

Family crest

The Duffield coat of arms is black and white with three doves across the shield and its colours are black and silver.[2] The family motto is "Always Faithful".

See also

  • Duffield (disambiguation)

References

  1. ^ Genealogy, US Census Bureau, USA.
  2. ^ Duffield Family Crest and Name History, House of Names.

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