I am intrigued by this as both myself and my father before me have been trying to trace our heritage. I do believe we hail from Ireland originally. Although the largest contingent of the familly spent several generations in Cheshire and were silk weavers. My side of the family left Cheshire in 1947 and went to live in Rhodesia Africa. I have now returned to the U.K. I do not know of any other surviving male Perfields apart from myself, my younger brother David and son Richard. It may be interesting to compare notes