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Can anyone tell me if they have come across the name of HARDLAND around the middle of the eighteenth century.

Thanks for any help.

Who are you looking for?

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1292060

(if relating above)

Chris :)

17,000 + search results for the name Harland 1730-1770 in England (some may be repeats!)

Are you looking for England? Any particular area?

EDIT - advice as per previous thread Hazel - which you said you would follow
i.e. Family Search and Search Trees

That was in 2012..........................................................

and the advice would be different now? :-)

oops, I see what you likely mean MFG ... 4 years later, same question, no more details than last time, no indication of what resources tried ...

greyghost may have hit on a clue there by misreading the name :-)

the one asked about is HARDLAND ... but I'm pretty sure the one birth in the index since 1916 at least is a mistake and should be HARLAND

the name may have evolved into Harland ... or it may simply have become extinct

I have a female ancestor whose surname became extinct in England when her brothers died without children in the early 1800s

if Hazel feels like replying with details this time, it might be possible to find something out

If Hazel comes back to see if she has replies!!

Last name: Harland

This is an Anglo-Saxon locational name with its origins in any of a number of minor places named from the Olde English pre 7th century "har", meaning "grey", or "hara" meaning "hare", plus "land" for "land" or "patch of country". Locational surnames were usually given to the lord of the manor, to the local residents and especially to those who left their original homes and went to live or work in another village or town. On July 28th 1555, Alicia, daughter of Thomae Harland, was christened at Howden, Yorkshire, and the marriage of Johanne Harland to George Mallerye, took place on August 11th 1560, at Filey, Yorkshire. The Quaker brothers, George and Michael Harland, emigrated from County Durham via Ireland to America in the late 17th Century, where George became Governor of Delaware in 1695, while Michael went to Philadelphia. Their descendants dropped the "d" from the surname and one James Harlan (1820 - 1899) became a senator and secretary of the Interior. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Peter de Herland, which was dated 1221, witness in the "Assize Court Rolls of Warwickshire", during the reign of King Henry 111, known as "the Frenchman", 1216 - 1272. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

dozens of Hardlands all over England throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries

Ann re your first large block of c&p above ... you have looked for HARLAND

(and thence Harlan ... the dropped 'd' referred to is the one at the end of the name Harland)

the name asked about is HARDLAND - HarDland

familysearch.org shows a grand total of 65 HarDland records (some duplicates) in England

mainly in London in the 18th century, and in Yorkshire in the 19th century censuses (which I would check the originals of)

technically 'dozens' maybe ... really just a largish handful

the name in the US censuses is essentially always from Norway

there is no definition for Hardland anywhere

sent a PM to Hazel about replies here and replying