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copeland Name Meaning and History

Northern English and Scottish: habitational name from a place called Copeland, of which there is an example in Cumbria, or from Coupland in Northumberland, both named with Old Norse kaupa-land ‘bought land’, a feature worthy of note during the early Middle Ages, when land was rarely sold, but rather held by feudal tenure and handed down from one generation to the next.

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Distribution of copeland Families in the US in 1920
Number of copeland families
 256-510
 86-255		 1-85
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 1137 - Messages: 2946
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John Wesley Copeland Nan 11
Family ELIJAH COPELAND 9
Copeland Ancestry frank henderson 12
Copelands of NC, TN, TX,AR, MO SunnShinne 1
COPELAND, James davescompp 4
Copelands in Tennessee HCopeland0603 54
Ruby Copeland of Jewett, TX 1928 drbrownlee 0
WILLIAM COPELAND,RELATIVE,OF THE DREHER'S AND WINGLES gghd23 2
Copeland/Coplen Family Tree acyoung08 4
Joseph Copeland and Sarah Seahorn randymccracken 0
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