When Phillip Ryland was born about 1802, in Pitt, North Carolina, United States, his father, Benona Ryland, was 44 and his mother, Sarah, was 38. He married Armenthia Nancy Hilson on 30 December 1824, in Warren, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Rapides, Louisiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 11 August 1860, in Avoyelles, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 59.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived by an area of land where rye was grown (Middle English rie ‘rye’ + land, lond) or who lived at a place called Ryland with the same meaning. The singular form is often a later alteration of the plural form Rylands; see Roylance .
Norwegian: habitational name from any of the three farmsteads in Fjordane and Hordaland so named from an unexplained first element + land ‘(piece of) land, farm’.
Americanized form of German Reiland .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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