Helland Family History
Helland Name Meaning
Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so
named, notably in the counties of Rogaland and Hordaland, mostly from
Old Norse Helgaland (see Helgeland), but in some cases
from Old Norse hella ‘flat stone’, ‘flagstone’, ‘flat mountain’
or hellir ‘cave’ + land ‘country’, ‘land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Helland
Name Distribution of Helland Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Helland families
 11 - 19  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Helland families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Helland census records
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Helland Family Origin
Helland Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Helland Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Helland census records
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Military Service by Helland
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