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kingsland Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from any of ten or more minor places known as ‘the king’s land’, such as Kingsland in South Molton, Devon, or Kingsland in Hackney, Greater London (formerly Middlesex), both named from Middle English kingis ‘of the king’+ land ‘land’.
  2. habitational name from Kingsland in Herefordshire near Leominster, which is named as ‘the king’s estate in Leon’. Leon is the old Celtic name for the district, meaning ‘at the streams’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kingsland Families in the US in 1920
Number of kingsland families
 36-69
 13-35		 1-12
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Jack KINGSLAND - boxer mrcandhisfamtree 1
Kingslands & Smiths david Kayner 0
ambrose & daniel kingsland, NYC 1800's david_kayner 1
Archie Kingsland m. Doris Cecil s 1
Harriet S Kingsland egahr81 0
KINGSLAND Origins KingLung 11
Abigail's of MA parents? + John ELDERKIN ~1630 Massachussets>Connecticut jjrosenberger 1
George Earl Kingsland picture Jessica 0
Frances Kingsland, Strickler Markle LindaGrelles35 0
Ambrose Kingsland + Mary Lovett HxKings 2
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