Brief Life History of Cortes Ragsdale
When Cortes Ragsdale Roland was born about 1827, in Alabama, United States, his father, Sherrod Rowland, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Pace, was 29. He married O L Brown on 27 January 1868. He lived in Lamar, Texas, United States in 1850.
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- Cortes R Roland in household of Elizabeth Roland, "United States Census, 1850"
Spouse and Children
1827– Male
1847– Female
Parents and Siblings
1788–1848 Male
1800–1876 Female
Siblings (10)
1819– Female
1820– Male
1822–1890 Female
1824–1859 Female
1827– Male
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World Events (8)
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Age 3
1840
Age 13
1861 · Texas Secedes from the United States
Age 34
Name Meaning
French, Walloon, German, English, and Scottish: from an ancient Germanic personal name composed of hrōd ‘fame, renown’ + land ‘land’. In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the more common French variant Rolland . See also English Rowland .
Norwegian (also Røland): habitational name from any of several farms named Rødland mainly in Hordaland or Røyland mainly in Agder, most of them from Old Norse reyrr ‘heap of stones’ or reyrr ‘rush’ (a plant) + the second element land ‘(piece of) land, farmstead’. Compare Rolland .
Norwegian: habitational name from the farm name Roland in Lillehammer, with the first element Old Norse ruth ‘clearing’, or Roland in Agder around Lindesnes, with the first element possibly the Old Norse personal name Rói (either a short form of names beginning with Ro(d)- ‘fame, honor’ or composed with a word for ‘giant’ or ‘pagan priest’). The second element of the farm names is land ‘(piece of) land, farmstead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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