Boland Family History
Boland Name Meaning
Irish (Sligo and Munster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Beólláin ‘descendant of Beóllán’, an old Irish
name of uncertain origin.English: habitational name from any of
various places such as Bowland in Lancashire and West Yorkshire,
Bowlands in East Yorkshire, and Bolland in Devon. All of these are
most probably named with Old English boga ‘bow’ (in the sense
of a bend in a river) + land ‘land’.German: of
uncertain origin; possibly from Slavic polan ‘rural person’,
‘peasant’, or a variant of Bolander, or an altered spelling of
Böhland, a name of Slavic origin, from Old Slavic
belu ‘white’, a descriptive nickname for a fair-haired person.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Boland Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Boland families
 69 - 136  24 - 68 |
 1 - 23  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Boland families
|
30 - 57 11 - 29 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Boland Family Origin
Boland Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Boland Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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