When Harry Stanford Holland was born on 2 April 1861, in Newry, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Baker Holland, was 27 and his mother, Lavenia Weaver, was 24. He married Linda R Shade on 20 June 1883, in Leamersville, Freedom Township, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Freedom Township, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Hollidaysburg, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 10 June 1931, in Hollidaysburg, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Leamersville, Freedom Township, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States.
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English, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, French, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from Holland, a province of the Netherlands.
English: habitational name from Downholland or Upholland (Lancashire), Hulland (Derbyshire), the Parts of Holland, one of the three administrative subdivisions of Lincolnshire, any of the four places called Hoyland (southern Yorkshire), and possibly Great and Little Holland (Essex). The placenames all derive from Old English hōh ‘heel, spur of land’ + land ‘land’.
English: habitational name either from Hoeland (Farm) in Bury (Sussex), or from Holland's Barn in Albourne (Sussex). The placename in Bury has the same etymology as in 1 above, while the placename in Albourne may derive from Old English hol ‘hole, hollow’ + land ‘land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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