When Charles Greenland was born on 19 August 1836, in Marylebone, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Greenland, was 27 and his mother, Amelia Herd, was 30. He married Hannah Richards about 1860, in London England Temple, Newchapel, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Finsbury Park, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1836 and Shoreditch, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1871.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) green meadow’, Middle English grene, grein + land, or a habitational name from a minor place so named.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Groenland and possibly also of German Grönland: habitational name from any of several farmsteads or hamlets so named, with the same meaning as 1 above, from Dutch groen, Low German grön ‘green’ + land ‘land’. The surname Grönland is very rare in Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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