Burland Family History
Burland Name Meaning
English: topographic name from either Middle English burlond ‘peasant land’ (Old English gebūrland) or Middle English burgh + lond ‘land belonging to a town or borough’ (Old English burg + land). The surname could also be a habitational name from any of the places in Cheshire and the East Yorkshire named Burland or Bowerland in Devon Surrey and Kent. The Yorkshire name is derived from Old English bȳre ‘byre cow shed’ + land the rest from Old English (ge)būr ‘peasant’ + land ‘land’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022