The borland Surname

borland Name Meaning and History

Scottish: habitational name from any of several places called Bor(e)land or Bordland, which are named with Old or Middle English bord ‘board’, ‘table’ + land ‘land’, i.e. land that supplied the lord’s table, in other words ‘home farm’.

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The borland name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the borland family name as far back in history as possible.

borland Family Facts

Name Distribution (US)Name Distribution (UK)Name Distribution (Scotland)Place of Origin Immigration Year Ports of Departure Life Expectancy Occupations Civil War Service

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Distribution of borland Families in the US in 1920

Number of borland families

76-150

26-75

1-25

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Thread	Author	Replies
Borland, Peter	lizabeth2444	0
Thomas Borland	bjfamily4	0
New Address	CHesterBorland	1
David Borland	gillian_borland	1
William Stubbs BORLAND	CHesterBorland	0
Pennsylvania Borlands came from NY	padamson5	3
Joseph Earl Borland	Jean Borland	1
William Borland/ Jean Adam	Yvon	3
Genealogy on the Borlands	Elizabeth Jones	11
James T. Borland Jr.c.1873-? & John Niland Borland c 1875-? both b. Cape Vincent NY	icksanford1	3

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