The boland Surname
boland Name Meaning and History
- Irish (Sligo and Munster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beólláin ‘descendant of Beóllán’, an old Irish name of uncertain origin.
- English: habitational name from any of various places such as Bowland in Lancashire and West Yorkshire, Bowlands in East Yorkshire, and Bolland in Devon. All of these are most probably named with Old English boga ‘bow’ (in the sense of a bend in a river) + land ‘land’.
- German: of uncertain origin; possibly from Slavic polan ‘rural person’, ‘peasant’, or a variant of Bolander, or an altered spelling of Böhland, a name of Slavic origin, from Old Slavic belu ‘white’, a descriptive nickname for a fair-haired person.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| WILLIAM SCOTT BOLAND REV.JOHN W. BOLAND |
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| Johannes Bohland Sr. grandfather to Old J ohn Boland the Hessen Soldier who deserted to the S.C. Militia in 1779 or 1780 |
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| John M. Boland | Liz Loberg | 43 |
| Boland in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH 1850-1900 |
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| James Boland | caryn strining | 3 |
| BOLAND M Emelia SISTER -1934 |
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| Vickie Boland | rick elben | 2 |
| Here and Now | Patrick Boland | 2 |
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