When George Walton Holland was born on 4 March 1892, in Newry, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Harry Stanford Holland, was 30 and his mother, Linda R Shade, was 30. He married Nellie Ada Cunningham on 12 August 1915, in Cumberland, Allegany, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Freedom Township, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and East Saint Clair Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States for about 30 years. He died on 7 December 1961, in St. Clairsville, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Bedford, 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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