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John Fiffield d 1796

 

John Fiffield d 1796

John Fiffield who died in 1796 was established in his will as elaborated in my article Standbridge and Standbridge Erles

There are various possible spellings of his family's surname, including Fyfielde, Fyfield, Fifeilde, Fiffielde, Fiffield, FFiffield, FFifeld, Fifield and presumably many others. I have adopted Fifield as the collective name for all the variations.

Fifield Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Fifield or Fyfield, of which there are instances in Berkshire, Essex, Oxfordshire, and Wiltshire, all so named from Old English fif ‘five’ + hid ‘hide’. (A hide was a measurement of land area.)

I have attempted to transcribe John Fifield's Last Will and Testament within my article Standbridge and Standbridge Erles. Part of that enabled me to derive some of the family.

Fifield's of Hampton

 

Fifield's of Hampton, New Hampshire, New England

First Fifield immigrant to the New World?

William Fifield Ships page 107

The paragraph below was posted in Ancestry by djsw_ originally shared this on 21 Aug 2008. Source: Readfield Historical Society Newsletter published Spring/Summer 2000

On March 24, 1634, the ship Hercules left London, England. Twenty five days later when the Hercules landed in Ipswich, Massachusetts and her passengers descended the planks - William Fifield was among them. William became one of the original settlers in Hampton, New Hampshire where he was given a grant of land in 1640. On June 2, 1641 he was made a freeman of Massachusetts Bay. William served in several offices in Hampton - attorney, selectman, constable, and sheriff. The Quakers praised him for his humanity. All eight of his children were born in Hampton - the first, John, was born in 1645. In 1648 William's wife, Mary, gave birth to their second son, Benjamin from whom the Fifields of Readfield and Manchester, Maine descend. In 1667 William conveyed land to Benjamin, who was then 19 years of age, and probably anticipating marriage. William saw Benjamin marry, and also enjoyed the birth of Benjamin's nine children. When William, the American Fifield progenitor, died in 1700 he exceeded eighty years of age, and had in fact, lived to see forty of his forty-eight grandchildren enter this world.

The Fifield Family

 

The Fifield Family

 

This is a primarily collection of articles about various branches or people within the Fifield Family. It is still under construction as more information is discovered.

There are various possible spellings of his family's surname, including Fyfielde, Fyfield, Fifeilde, Fiffielde, Fiffield, FFiffield, FFifeld, Fifield and presumably many others. I have adopted Fifield as the collective name for all the variations.

Fifield Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Fifield or Fyfield, of which there are instances in Berkshire, Essex, Oxfordshire, and Wiltshire, all so named from Old English fif ‘five’ + hid ‘hide’. (A hide was a measurement of land area.)

Fifield's of Box

 

Fifield's of Box

 

 1616 – Abbey Church consecrated and 1620 the restoration of the Abbey is completed.

Records in this set, Bath Abbey, start in 1614.

Marriage Robert Fifield Mary Brookeman

My attempt at transcription of the Parish Record found on Ancestry as Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812

The Contract of Marriage between Robert Fifield of the parish of Box of Wilts & Mary Brookeman of the parish of Batheaston, was published in the Market place of this City on 3 several Market days in 3 xxx on Wednesday 17th on Wednesday 24th of September and on the first of October 1656. } Robert Fifield & Mary Brookeman by Mr John Parse one of the Justices of the Peace for this City Married on the second day of October 1656 in presence of John Brookeman of xxx & William Fyfield of Box in the County of Wilts & me Curate Shepard.

Fifield's of Minety

 

Fifield's of Minety, Wiltshire

The Fifield family may have moved to Minety during the first quarter of 1700s.

Minety Marriages 1607The first entry of a marriage in the Parish records (Bishops Transcripts) was in 1607. Christopher Mills and Grace Morgan married on the 15th October 1607. 

The Bishops Transcripts records are the source of this information until the 4th December 1633, when William Waigth, of Andover & Grace, daughter of Henry Rutter, of Minety are married.

Last Will and Testament of John Fifield Yeoman of Littleton
Last Will and Testament of John Fifield Yeoman of Littleton

John Fifield, Yeoman of Littleton, Hampshire

 

John Fifeld or Fifield, Yeoman of Littleton, Hampshire

 Lets start, not at the beginning, but at the end, with his Last Will and Testament.

The following is my attempt to transcribe the probate entry of that Will obtained from The National Archives.

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