Rowland Family History
Rowland Name Meaning
English: from Rol(l)ant, a Norman personal name composed
of the Germanic elements hrod ‘renown’ + land ‘land’,
‘territory’ (or + -nand ‘bold’, assimilated to -lant
‘land’). This was popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages as a
result of the fame of Charlemagne’s warrior of this name, who was
killed at Roncesvalles in ad 778.English: habitational
name from places in Derbyshire and Sussex, so named from Old Norse
rá ‘roebuck’ + lundr ‘wood’, ‘grove’.Variant of
German and French Roland.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Rowland
Name Distribution of Rowland Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rowland families
 620 - 1,238  207 - 619 |
 1 - 206  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rowland families
|
14 - 25 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rowland census records
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Rowland Family Origin
Rowland Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Rowland Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Rowland Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Rowland census records
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Military Service by Rowland
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