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• Wakefield, Kansas, United States of America
• Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States of America
• Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
• Wakefield, Nebraska, United States of America
• Wakefield, New Hampshire, United States of America
• Wakefield, Quebec, Canada
• Wakefield Township, Minnesota, United States of America
• Wakefield Township, Michigan, United States of America
• Wakefield, Virginia, United States of America
• Wakefield, Yorkshire, England
• Wakefield, Australia
• Wakefield, New Zealand

There is also:

• Wakefield-Peacedale, Rhode Island, United States of America, sometimes also referred to as Wakefield.

And then there is the Wakefield family, several of whom did much to settle New Zealand

• Catherine Gurney Wakefield, 1793-1873
• Edward Gibbon WakefieldEdward Gibbon Wakefield ( 1796 May 16, 1862) was the driving force behind much of the early colonization of New Zealand. Wakefield, who married in 1816 Eliza Prattle (1799-1820), is the eldest son of Edward Wakefield (1774-1854) and Susannah Crush (1767-1, the driving force behind the New Zealand CompanyThe New Zealand Company formed in 1839 to promote the colonisation of New Zealand. Two previous attempts had been made to colonise New Zealand. In 1825 a company (the first to bear the name of the New Zealand Company formed in London and sent out settlers
• Daniel Bell WakefieldDaniel Bell Wakefield ( 1798- 1858) was a notable judge in New Zealand during the early 19th century. As a child in England, Wakefield was thought to be rather 'slow' and showed little initiative at school. During his later school years he lived with Fran, 1798-1858
• Captain Arthur WakefieldCaptain Arthur Wakefield ( 1799- 1843) was the second brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, founder of the New Zealand Company. Arthur Wakefield joined the British Navy at age ten. He saw action in the Dutche east Indies, he was part of the force that captu who died in the Wairau MassacreIn New Zealand history, the Wairau Massacre was the first serious clash of arms between the Maori and the British settlers after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. The New Zealand Company had built a settlement around Nelson in the North of the South
• Colonel William WakefieldColonel William Wakefield ( 1801- 1848), married 1826 to Emily Sydney, the fifth child of Edward Wakefield and Priscilla Bell, he was the leader of the first colonizing expedition to New Zealand and founder of Wellington. Early life Born just outside Lond who founded Wellington, New Zealand
• John Howard Wakefield, 1803-1862
• Felix WakefieldFelix Wakefield ( 1807 1875), seventh child of Edward Wakefield and Priscilla Bell. married, 1831, Marie Bailley by whom he had nine children. Brother of and serious annoyance to Edward Gibbon Wakefield When he left school Felix began working with his fat, 1807-1875
• Priscilla Wakefield, 1809-1887
• Edward Jerningham Wakefield son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield