When Frederick Alfred Holland was born on 15 February 1899, in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Samuel Holland, was 30 and his mother, Mary Ann Johnson, was 27. He married Esther Wellings on 15 September 1930, in Macclesfield St Peter, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Macclesfield St Peter, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He died on 8 September 1986, in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 87, and was buried in Wildboarclough, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom.
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’.
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