When Ann Garland was born in 1833, in Kingswood, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Henry Garland, was 27 and her mother, Sarah Banfield, was 26. She married Joseph Shortman on 14 September 1856, in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 9 daughters. She lived in Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1871 and Trevethin, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom for about 10 years. She died about 1904, in Abersychan, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 72.
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English: from Middle English gerlond, ger(e)land, garlond ‘metal chaplet, crown, coronet; wreath’, probably a nickname denoting a habitual wearer of such items, or a metonymic occupational name for a maker of them.
English: perhaps from the Old French personal name Gerland (ancient Germanic Garuland, probably from garw- ‘war-gear; prepared(ness)’ + land ‘land’; the first element of the French name may instead be from a name beginning with gēr ‘spear’).
English: topographic name from Middle English gor(e), gar(e) ‘triangular piece’ + lond ‘land’ (Old English gāra + land, lond), for someone who lived ‘(at the) triangular piece of land’. Compare Garfield .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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