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Board: Origin, Geographical Distribution
(Cor. Br.) Local. The high land; the swelling or rising land; from bor, swelling, rising, and lemd. If from the Saxon, it signifies the land belonging to the common people. Bordlands were lands which the lords kept in their hands for the maintenance of their board or table. Borland is the name of a village in Fifeshire, Scotland, whence the family may have originated.
Board Surname Origin
Spelling Variations : BOARD | BOHARD
Board: Place of Origin :  Devon (United Kingdom) |  Lancashire (United Kingdom) |  Grampian (United Kingdom) |  Somerset (United Kingdom) |  London (United Kingdom) |  Cheshire (United Kingdom)
Board: Online Family Trees
BOARD Burnham (Somerset, England, United Kingdom) 1706 - 1706
BOARD Burham-On-Sea (Somerset, England, United Kingdom) 1680 - 1680
BOARD Burnham, Som (Somerset, England, United Kingdom) 1838 - 1838
BOARD St. Pauls, Clifton, Avn (Avon, England, United Kingdom) 1876 - 1876
BOARD Buckland St Mary (Somerset, England, United Kingdom) 1819 - 1819
BOARD Dalwood, Dorsetshire (Dorset, England, United Kingdom) 1796 - 1796
BOARD Bickleigh Devon England (Near Plympton) (Devon, England, United Kingdom) 1848 - 1848
BOARD Devon England (Devon, England, United Kingdom) 1825 - 1825
BOARD SR Sussex (England, United Kingdom) 1720 - 1720
BOARD Burnham (England, United Kingdom) 1705 - 1765

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Board: Books that contain this surname
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BOARDA genealogic and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire g by Bernard Burke,...
Author: John Bernard Burke - Published in 1860
... m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Stephen Board, Kut. of Board Hill, co. Sussex, and d. in Aug. 1624. There is ...		 BOARDSussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county (Volume 9)
Author: Sussex Archaeological Society - Published in 1848
... had married Lucy, daughter of Thomas Board, Esq., of Fax-hill, and succeeded, apparently under settlement, to the manor-house of Ernley, ...
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