When Rebecca Garland was born on 25 January 1699, in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, her father, Jabez Garland, was 31 and her mother, Dorcas Heard, was 29. She married James Hobbs about 1717, in Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 9 daughters. She died in 1767, in Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 68.
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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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