When Martha Holland was born on 3 February 1835, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Holland, was 40 and her mother, Hannah Frith Richardson, was 38. She married Henry Charles Fowler on 23 March 1851, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Sandbach, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1835 and Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 30 June 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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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