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TennesseeTim
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« on: Thursday 23 September 04 15:56 UTC (UK) »
Dear RootsChat Folks.
My name is Tim Hatfield.  I live in Tennessee, USA.
I have done a good deal of genealogy research on my family name in the States, and I am wondering if someone in the UK can please help me discover where my family name began?
Which English town or village with the name Hatfield is the oldest?  The place name Hatfield is mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the year 680, but was the area named for a family, or did families from the area adopt the place as a name?  Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
And what is the opinion of the British Hatfields?  If you have traced your family as far back as they can be followed, where does it begin, in Celtic or in Saxon ancestry, or are there other factors I have failed to consider?
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Tim Hatfield.
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