Brief Life History of John Earle
When John Earle Holland was born on 5 June 1888, in Newry, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Harry S Holland, was 27 and his mother, Linda R Shade, was 26. He married Hester Grace Duganne on 23 April 1916, in Blair, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Blair Township, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920 and Hollidaysburg, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States for about 15 years. He died on 17 August 1970, in Duncansville, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Newry Lutheran Cemetery, Newry, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Unknown, "United States 1950 Census"
- John Earl Holland, "Pennsylvania Delayed Birth Records, 1941-1976"
- John E. Holland, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
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Name Meaning
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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