Lan Family History
Lan Name Meaning
Chinese : from a place named Lan-tian (meaning ‘blue
field’) in Guangdong province.Polish (Lan):
perhaps from the vocabulary word lan ‘plowland’, ‘soil’.Polish (Lan): alternatively, perhaps a nickname
from a derivative of lania ‘hind’, ‘doe’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Lan
Name Distribution of Lan Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lan families
 39 - 76  14 - 38 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lan families
|
6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lan census records
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Lan Family Origin
Lan Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Lan Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Lan census records
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Military Service by Lan
Message Board about Lan
2 Threads, 2
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Lan.
Threads: 2 - Messages: 2
| Thread | Author | Replies | |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAN Anna Ly Thi 1970-1998 | | t42MountOlivet | 0 |
| Henry Lan, born April 1845, lived in Scott Co., PA, wife Margaretha |  | margerice1 | 0 |
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