The Streatfeilds and Streatfields of north west Kent and beyond are first recorded with Robert Streatfeild of Chiddingstone, born in 1514. He was an Iron Master and Wool Merchant.
Some of his descendants are recorded here. There are two charts, one from Richard Rivers whos daughter Joan married the first recorded Streatfeild, Robert, until the family members born in the mid to late 1800s; and the other from John Streatfeild, born in Leigh in 1740, to the present day. John Streatfield's branch of the family moved to the north and east to Farningham, Stansted and Halling and then beyond.
This family has been very heavily researched by various descndants and especially Malcolm Streatfield, Trevor Gibbons and Ron Ellis. The web sites below are also lines of research by others.
I, Michael Jefferies, am descended from two of John's children, Richard, born 1774, and Dinah, born 1779. The earliest known portrait of a family member is of Dinah.
The convention used here is to use the spelling 'Streatfield" for all descendants of John, born 1740, though this spelling was used before this time. Some descendants of Robert, 1514, who remained in the Chiddingstone area have retained the 'Streatfeild" spelling and still live in the area.
NOTE The census spelling is quite often as Strutfield and this name may not appear in the surname index on this site consistently as an alternative. Another variant is Stratfield.
Other branches of the Streatfields are covered on the web sites:-
The Streatfield family
The Streatfeild family in Chiddingstone
Streatfield Family
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