When Sanford J Rowland was born on 15 March 1860, in Owsley, Kentucky, United States, his father, Alford Armstrong Rowland, was 21 and his mother, Thursey Jane Price, was 21. He married Margaret Ann Tirey about 1881, in Owsley, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Orange, Orange Township, Fayette, Indiana, United States in 1930 and Washington Township, Rush, Indiana, United States for about 5 years. He died on 7 September 1947, in Franklin, Indiana, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Columbia Cemetery, Connersville, Fayette, Indiana, United States.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
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English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Rollant, Rolant, Rolent, Roulent (ancient Germanic Hrodland, Rodland, from hrōd ‘glory’ + land ‘land’), introduced into England by the Normans. It was made famous by French romances about Roland, the most famous of the peers of Charlemagne who was killed at Roncesvalles in AD 778. Although widely used across post-Conquest England (along with Oliver, the name of Roland's companion), it seems to have been restricted to particular gentry families and was never popular. Compare Roland .
English: habitational name from Rowland (Derbyshire) or Rowland Wood in Slinfold (Sussex). The Derbyshire placename derives from Old Norse rá ‘roe, roe buck’ or rá ‘land mark, boundary’ + lúndr ‘small wood, grove’. The Sussex placename probably derives from Middle English roughe ‘rough’ + lond ‘land’ (Old English rūh, land).
English: in northern England and perhaps elsewhere, perhaps a post-medieval variant of Rawling . Compare Rawlinson , Rollinson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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