Overland Family History
Overland Name Meaning
Norwegian: habitational name from any of some twenty
farmsteads, mainly in Telemark and on the west coast, named
Øverland, from øver ‘upper’ + land ‘land’.English: habitational name from Overland Farm in Kent, named with
Old English yfer ‘hill brow’ + land ‘land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Overland
Name Distribution of Overland Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Overland families
 29 - 56  10 - 28 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Overland census records
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Overland Family Origin
Overland Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Overland Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Overland census records
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Military Service by Overland
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