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BURFIELD Family History

Recorded in a number of spellings including Barfield, Baerfield, Bearfield, and Burfield, this is an English surname, but ones whose roots may have been lost. It is locational and as shown below, well recorded in the surviving early registers of the diocese of Greater London from the mid 16th century. This was a period which saw great changes in the British countryside with the onset of the earliest industrial revolution, and the conversion of lands to sheep farming. As a result some five thousand villages 'disappeared' between the year 1550 and 1750, and today only the surviving surname remains to remind us of their existence.