When Richard Copeland was born in 1798, in Wexford, County Wexford, Ireland, his father, John Copeland II, was 35 and his mother, Lady Sarah Carlow, was 33.
English and Scottish: habitational name from Copeland in Cumbria or Coupland in Northumberland, both named with Old Norse kaupa-land ‘bought land’, a feature worthy of note during the early Middle Ages, when land was rarely sold, but rather held by feudal tenure and handed down from one generation to the next.
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