Markland Family History
Markland Name Meaning
habitational name from a place in the
parish of Wigan (now in Greater Manchester), so called from Old
English mearc ‘boundary’ + lanu ‘lane’.topographic
name for someone who lived by a stretch of border or boundary land
(see Mark 2) or a status name for someone who held land with an
annual value of one mark.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Markland
Name Distribution of Markland Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Markland families
 26 - 49  9 - 25 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Markland families
|
278 - 553 93 - 277 |
1 - 92 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Markland families
|
6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Markland Family Origin
Markland Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Markland
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Markland Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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