When John Holland was born in 1832, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Holland, was 37 and his mother, Hannah Frith Richardson, was 35. He married Elizabeth Saunders on 10 March 1863, in Pitsmoor, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. He lived in Brightside Bierlow, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Norton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891. He died in 1909, in Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 77, and was buried in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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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