English (chiefly West Yorkshire): habitational name from a place in
the parish of Almondbury, West Yorkshire, named Crosland, from Old
English cros ‘cross’ + land ‘newly cultivated land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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