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kirkland Name Meaning and History

English (now mainly East Midlands) and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived on land belonging to the Church, from northern Middle English kirk ‘church’ + land ‘land’. There are several villages named with these elements, for example in Cumbria, and in some cases the surname will have arisen from these. Exceptionally, Kirkland in Lancashire has as its second element Old Norse lundr ‘grove’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The kirkland name in History

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

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Distribution of kirkland Families in the US in 1920
Number of kirkland families
 197-392
 66-196		 1-65
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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