Harland Family History
Harland Name Meaning
English (mainly northeastern): habitational name from any of
various minor places (including perhaps some now lost) named from Old
English har ‘gray’, hara ‘hare’, or hær
‘rock’, ‘tumulus’ + land ‘tract of land’, ‘estate’, ‘cultivated
land’, notably Harland in Kirkbymoorside. North Yorkshire, which is
named from hær + land. This surname has been present
in northern Ireland since the 17th century.French
(Normandy): nickname for someone given to stirring up trouble, from
the present participle of medieval French hareler ‘to create a
disturbance’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Harland
Name Distribution of Harland Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Harland families
 29 - 55  10 - 28 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Harland families
|
653 - 1,304 218 - 652 |
1 - 217 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Harland families
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11 - 20 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Harland census records
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Harland Family Origin
Harland Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Harland
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Harland Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Harland Civil War Service Records
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