Does anyone know where the surname 'Bolland' derived from??

Question:

Does anyone know where the surname 'Bolland' derived from??

anywhere in the UK?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: You could try the Bolland genealogy message board at:

http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.boll...

Or the Boland boards:

http://genforum.genealogy.com/boland/...
http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.bola...

Also from ancestry.com:

bolland

1. Variant spelling of Irish Boland.
2. German: habitational name from a place in Mecklenburg named Bolland.

boland

1. Irish (Sligo and Munster): Anglicized form of Gaelic 㓠Be㳬l㡩n ??descendant of Be㳬l㡮??, an old Irish name of uncertain origin.
2. English: habitational name from any of various places such as Bowland in Lancashire and West Yorkshire, Bowlands in East Yorkshire, and Bolland in Devon. All of these are most probably named with Old English boga ??bow?? (in the sense of a bend in a river) + land ??land??.
3. German: of uncertain origin; possibly from Slavic polan ??rural person??, ??peasant??, or a variant of Bolander, or an altered spelling of B㶨land, a name of Slavic origin, from Old Slavic belu ??white??, a descriptive nickname for a fair-haired person.

Hope that helps,
Dave
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