Marland Family History
Marland Name Meaning
English (southern Lancashire): habitational name from a minor
place in the parish of Rochdale, named from Old English mere
‘lake’, ‘pool’ + land ‘tract of land’, ‘estate’, ‘cultivated
land’. There may also have been some confusion with Markland.Dutch: habitational name from Maarland in Eijsden, Dutch
Limburg.possibly a variant of Dutch Merlan, from French
merlan ‘whiting’, a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman
or seller of these fish.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Marland
Name Distribution of Marland Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Marland families
 511 - 1,020  171 - 510 |
 1 - 170  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Marland families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Marland census records
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Marland Family Origin
Marland Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Marland Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Marland census records
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Military Service by Marland
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