The name Mansfield is a locational surname, deriving from a parish in Nottinghamshire, Mansfield, a market town that dates back to the Domesday Book of 1086 where it was listed as Mamesfelde, but archaeological digs indicate population back to the Roman times. The place name itself is a combination of Celtic and Anglo Saxon Terms and literally means "open land by the River Maun", or "field by the hill called Mam". Mam is the Celtic word for breast.  

Current research identifies progenitor of our line of the Mansfield family as being Richard Mansfield about 1700 in Leicester. It is his great great grand daughter Sarah Starkey Mansfield who marries Thomas Fullelove and immigrates to Australia in 1863.

My Mansfield ancestry goes back 11 generations and biographies exist for some members as indicated by links

• Richard Mansfield married Sarah Webster
  • Richard Mansfield 1746 - 1810 married Barbara Rose
    • William Mansfield 1770 - 1853 married Anne Parker
      • William Mansfield 1803 - 1844 married Ann Starkey
        • Sarah Starkey Mansfield 1827 - 1898 married Thomas Fullelove  
          • Sarah Ann Starkey Fullelove 1844 - 1935 married George William Bashford
            • /wiki/spaces/HFHW/pages/2523599 married James Cairns Bain
              • James Bashford Bain 1893 - 1971 married Eva Mary Yates
                • Doreen Bain 1921 - 2000 married Douglas James Hardie
                  • My father