Molland Family History

from Molland (Devon) which is recorded as Mollanda in 1086. The place-name derives from an uncertain initial element (perhaps related to the river Mole but unlikely to be from the Mole itself as no medieval forms for the river-name have been found) + Old English land ‘land’.

from Molland Farm in Ash next Sandwich or a lost Molland in Cliffe (both Kent). The place-names probably derive from Old English māl ‘bargaining tax rent’ + land ‘land’; compare Modern English molland ‘land for which rent was paid in commutation of feudal service’ (see OED).

there may have been some confusion with Mouland.