Streatfeild family

The Streatfeilds, Streatfields or Stretfields are an aristocratic English family of the landed gentry, from Chiddingstone, Kent.

The family are traceable to the early 16th century and are a possible cadet branch of the Noble House of Stratford.

[citation needed] From the early 16th century until 1900 the family seat was Chiddingstone Castle.

The House of Stratford has a remarkably similar coat of arms attributed to them in the former half of the 14th century.

This could be seen as evidence that the Streatfields, though their line cannot be traced beyond the 1500s, are in fact a cadet branch of the Stratford family, the name having been corrupted at some point prior to the 16th century.

One version of the Streatfeild crest