There are approximately 30,329 people named Field in the UK. Approximately 480 out of every million people in the UK are named Field.
"This ancient of pre 7th century German origins and Anglo-Saxon origins, is recorded in over seventy spellings. These range from Feild, Feld, and Field, to Delafield, Veld, Van den Velde, Feldmann, and the various ornamental compounds such as Feldblum or Fieldstone. However spelt, the name is topographical for someone who lived or worked on land which had been cleared of forest, but not brought into arable cultivation. The derivation is from "feld", translating as pasture or open country, almost the opposite of the 20th century meaning.. The earliest recordings are to be found in England and Germany. These include Hugo de la Felde, in the Pipe Rolls of the county of Bedfordshire, England, in the year 1188, and Petrus im dem Velde, of Mengen, Germany, in 1216." - The Internet Surname Database
Possible antecedents:
John Felde of Tonbridge whose will was proved in 1455.
Thomas & Julian Felde who sold a house and lands in East Farleigh (2 miles from Teston) , Capel and Tonbridge in 1505
CP 25/1/117A/350, number 452.Link: Image of document at AALT
County: Kent.Place:
Westminster.
Date: The day after St John the Baptist, 20 Henry VII [25 June 1505].
Parties: Richard Fane, Richard Tylly and Thomas Stone, querents, and Thomas Felde and Julian, his wife, deforciants.
Property: 1 messuage, 2 gardens, 18 acres of land and 3 acres of meadow in the parishes of Estfarleghe, Tudele and Capelle iuxta Tunbregge.Action: Plea of covenant.Agreement: Thomas Felde and Julian have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Richard Tylly, as those which the same Richard, Richard Fane and Thomas Stone have of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Julian to Richard, Richard and Thomas Stone and the heirs of Richard Tylly for ever.Warranty: Warranty.For this: Richard, Richard and Thomas Stone have given them 40 marks of silver.
Standardised forms of names. (These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.)Persons:Richard Fane, Richard Tilley, Thomas Stone, Thomas Field, Julian FieldPlaces:East Farleigh, Tudeley (in Capel), Capel, Tonbridge