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Holland: Origin, Geographical Distribution
Local. A name given to a native of that country, which was so called from Hollow-land, because it abounds with ditches full of water. Bailey is of opinion that the Danes who conquered Holland, so called it from an island in the Baltic of the same name, from ol, beer, drink. Why not from Hold land, the land taken and kept, held, governed?
Holland Surname Origin
Spelling Variations : HOLLANDE | HOLLAND | HOLANDE | OLLANDE | HOLLANDT | HOLANT | HOLANDT | HOLAND | HOLLANS | DHOLANDE | DHOLLANDE
Holland: Place of Origin :  Lancashire (United Kingdom) |  London (United Kingdom) |  Cheshire (United Kingdom) |  Devon (United Kingdom) |  Northamptonshire (United Kingdom) |  South Yorkshire (United Kingdom)
Holland: Online Family Trees
HOLLAND Kings Langley, Wd4, Royaume Uni (Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom) 1434 - 1434
HOLLAND Décapité (London, England, United Kingdom) 1400 - 1400
van HOLLAND Quendon (Essex, England, United Kingdom) 1299 - 1299
HOLLAND Brancepeth,Comté de Durham,U.K. (County Durham, England, United Kingdom) 1394 - 1394
HOLLAND Château de Wallingford,U.K. (Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom) 1350 - 1400
HOLLAND Greenwich, District,U.K. (London, England, United Kingdom) 1466 - 1466
HOLLAND Kings Langley,U.K. (Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom) 1424 - 1424
HOLLAND London,U.K. (London, England, United Kingdom) 1366 - 1439
HOLLAND St Saviours Abbey Bermondsey London (United Kingdom) 1385 - 1429
HOLLAND [Borough], North West (Cheshire, England, United Kingdom) 1896 - 1896

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Holland: GeneaNet Members
Photo de  PAT HOLLAND PAT HOLLAND Photo de  PATSY J HOLLAND PATSY J HOLLAND Photo de  MICHELLE HOLLAND MICHELLE HOLLAND Photo de  BRIAN G. HOLLAND BRIAN G. HOLLAND Photo de Jayne  HOLLANDJayne HOLLAND Photo de Ian HOLLANDIan HOLLAND
Holland: Famous Genealogies
 The surname Holland is related to the following famous family trees :
        ARBUTHNOT John (1667 - 1735)
        BIDEN Joe born BIDEN Joseph Robinette, Jr. (1942 - )
        BLAIR Tony born BLAIR Anthony Charles Lynton (1953 - )
        ROBIEN (de) Gilles (1941 - )
        HOOVER Herbert born HOOVER Herbert Clark (1874 - 1964)
Holland: Books that contain this surname
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HOLLANDA genealogic and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire g by Bernard Burke,...
Author: John Bernard Burke - Published in 1860
... Frances, dau. and heiress of William Holland, Esq. of West-burton, in Sussex, and had three sons and three daus., viz., ...
HOLLANDA genealogic and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire g by Bernard Burke,...
Author: John Bernard Burke - Published in 1860
... Elizabeth, m. lst, to John Holland, Duke of Exeter , and 2ndly, to Sir John Cornwall, K.G. The Duke ...
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