The origin of the name Maxfield is English and the Coat of Arms contains Red shield with a silver cross ermine.
Spelling variations include: Macclesfield, Macksfield, Maxfield, Mexfield, Mixfield and many more.
First found in Cheshire where they were anciently seated as Lords of the Manor.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: the name represented in many forms and recorded from the mid 17th century in the great migration from Europe. Migrants settled in the eastern seaboard from Newfoundland, to Maine, to Virginia, the Carolinas, and to the islands.
