Alan: Have you found the name to be Oldfield?  My Spanish Teacher Edna Oldfield Whitson lived in Summititiville, Madison County, INdiana. Phyllis ----- Original Message ---- From: Alan Hill <alan.hill@clear.net.nz> To: northumbria@rootsweb.com Sent: Tue, October 13, 2009 4:43:04 PM Subject: [NMB] OFIELD Families Hi everyone: I'd be most grateful to receive any help or firm information available with regard to OFIELD families in Durham and Northumberland from the late 1800s to the present day. I have been researching this rather uncommon surname for some years and have managed to identify most of the main lines, but am sadly lacking much detailed information regarding dates of birth, marriage and burials in the two counties. Most of my direct family seem to have lived in and around Jarrow, Gateshead and South Shields and followed various occupations, including tailor, ship steward, lamplighter (gas, I imagine!) and one who worked in a wooden wall board factory (plywood, at the turn of the century?). There are also some links with areas about Longbenton,NBL,including Killingworth and Shiremoor. Another main line of OFIELDs seem to have congregated around Sedgefield,DUR, but I hsve yet to make any connection between these groups. The name, which is certainly not of nothern origin and appears to have some roots in midland and eastern counties, is occasionally spelt OFFIELD and I have one poor family going through life lumped with the tag "OFFAL". Best regards, Alan Fletcher Hill, Hamilton, NZ The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Phyllis Leedom wrote: > Have you found the name to be Oldfield? My Spanish Teacher Edna Oldfield > Whitson lived in Summititiville, Madison County, INdiana. Phyllis Please remember that this is the NORTHUMBRIA list. All posts must relate to the counties of Northumberland or Co Durham. Brian -- Brian Pears (Gateshead, UK) http://www.bpears.org.uk/ Joint List Admin NORTHUMBRIA Genealogy Mailing List GENUKI Northumberland Maintainer