English (now mainly East Midlands) and Scottish: topographic name
for someone who lived on land belonging to the Church, from northern
Middle English kirk ‘church’ + land ‘land’. There are
several villages named with these elements, for example in Cumbria,
and in some cases the surname will have arisen from
these. Exceptionally, Kirkland in Lancashire has as its second element
Old Norse lundr ‘grove’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kirkland
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry.co.uk.
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port of arrival, and destination.
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You can find out when most of the Kirkland families immigrated
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