Believe it or not the name "Fielding" was a very popular first name and also nick name in the 1800's. I have seem it many times in my own lineage and many other times scatter in Census records across Virginia. Im sure your not going to find any connections to a family with the surname of "Fielding". As always any leads you might follow could pan out, so I don't want to detour anyone from making a leap of faith and investigating a possible connection. The state of Virginia and off the wall names seems to remind me of how surnames came into being in the first place. You have too many "Williams" or "Johns" so nickname became very popular to use to help keep track of who someone was talking about. And in turn these nickname started to become common place first names. My great grandfather Jacob Kyger was known a "Sawyers Jack" and his 1st cousin, also Jacob Kyger was know as "Sawmill Jack". Far as I know theses two nicknames didnt catch on to become real first name, otherwise we would find a lot of Sawmill's and Sawyers's as given first names. Russ