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  • Aaron Elisha Holland, Jr. (1912 - 2006)
    Birth: Dec. 13, 1913 Death: Jun., 2006Family links: Spouse: Josephine Wilson Holland (1916 - 2001)**Calculated relationshipBurial: Luling City Cemetery Luling Caldwell County Texas, USAEdit Virtual C...
  • Abigail Holland (1759 - 1838)
  • Abigail Holland (1764 - 1858)
  • Abraham Holland (1715 - 1800)
    A Patriot of the American Revolution for MARYLAND. DAR Ancestor # A057103 Was a planter who inherited the portion of :Holland's Choice" inherited by his father, Anthony. Shortly after serving as a patr...
  • Absalom Holland (1791 - 1878)
    Absalom Holland BIRTH 29 Oct 1791 South Carolina, USA DEATH 13 Aug 1878 (aged 86) Hillsboro, Scott County, Mississippi, USA BURIAL New Hope Cemetery Clarkson, Webster County, Mississippi, USA MEMORIAL...

About the Holland surname

The surname Holland is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a locational surname deriving from any one of the various places in England called Holland or Hoyland, such as those in Essex, Lancashire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. These places are recorded in the Domesday Book of 1085 as "Holanda, Holand, Hoiland", and "Holant", respectively. All the places so called share the same meaning and derivation, which is "land on or by a ridge", from the Olde English pre 7th Century "hoh", ridge, spur of a hill, with "land", and. Locational surnames were acquired by local landowners, and the lord of the manor, and especially by those former inhabitants of a place who had settled elsewhere, and used the name of their birthplace as a means of identification. The placename Holland has generated a number of surnames, ranging from Holland and Hollands to Howland and Hoyland.

Variations: Howland, Holanda, Hollanda, Holand, Holant

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