When Jane Eliza Holland was born in 1847, in New York, United States, her father, John Holland, was 32 and her mother, Mary Jane Carpenter, was 18. She lived in Queens, New York, United States in 1860 and Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States for about 10 years. She died on 18 July 1932, in Queens, New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 85.
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English, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, French, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from Holland, a province of the Netherlands.
English: habitational name from Downholland or Upholland (Lancashire), Hulland (Derbyshire), the Parts of Holland, one of the three administrative subdivisions of Lincolnshire, any of the four places called Hoyland (southern Yorkshire), and possibly Great and Little Holland (Essex). The placenames all derive from Old English hōh ‘heel, spur of land’ + land ‘land’.
English: habitational name either from Hoeland (Farm) in Bury (Sussex), or from Holland's Barn in Albourne (Sussex). The placename in Bury has the same etymology as in 1 above, while the placename in Albourne may derive from Old English hol ‘hole, hollow’ + land ‘land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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