Brief Life History of Francis H.
When Francis H. Holland was born in February 1890, in Freedom Township, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Harry S Holland, was 28 and his mother, Linda R Shade, was 28. He had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Lona Mae Wolf. He lived in York, York, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930 and Hollidaysburg, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. He died on 1 December 1961, in York, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 71.
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- Harry F Holland, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Francis H. Holland - Individual or family possessions: death: 1 December 1961; York, Pennsylvania, United States
- Frank P Holland in entry for Larue Holland Weaver, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1905 · The Movie Theater
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1909 · The NAACP is formed
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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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