Gilland Family History
- Gilland Name Meaning
- Scottish and northern Irish: reduced form of Gilliland. In Scotland possibly a habitational name from Gullane near Edinburgh, locally pronounced Gillan.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 60,696 Historical Documents with Gilland on Ancestry
- 19,370 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 13,460 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,221 Military Records
- 1,483 Immigration Records
- 24,162 Member Trees
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Number of Gilland families
 13 - 24  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gilland families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gilland census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Gilland census records
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