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![Show Contents]() Orland Surname History
Orland is a name of ancient Anglo-Saxon origin and comes from the family once having lived in the village of Horlands, that can be traced to numerous places round England, including Harland Edge in Derbyshire and Harland Wood in Sussex. This surname was originally derived from the Old English words har and land, which means that the original bearers of the surname lived in the land that was infested with hares. Early Origins of the Orland familyThe surname Orland was first found in Middlesex where they held a family seat from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D. Early History of the Orland familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Orland research. Another 89 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1208, 1235, 1330, 1384, 1411, 1425, 1459, 1500 and 1664 are included under the topic Early Orland History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Orland Spelling VariationsSound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Orland family name include Harland, Hoarland, Hoareland, Hoorland, Hooreland, Horland, Horlands, Harlin, Harlind and many more. Early Notables of the Orland familyNotables of this surname at this time include: Hugh Herland (1330-1411), a 14th-century medieval English carpenter, the chief carpenter to King Richard II, best known pieces is the hammer-beam roof at Westminster Hall, regarded as one of the greatest carpentry achievements of the time, worked for William of Wykeham at New College, Oxford (c. 1384), commissioned by royalty to work on...
Another 61 words (4 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Orland Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.  Migration of the Orland family to Ireland
Some of the Orland family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. More information about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
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For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Orland surname or a spelling variation of the name include:
Orland Settlers in United States in the 17th Century- James Orland, who arrived in Virginia in 1663 1
Orland Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- D Orland, who landed in San Francisco, California in 1851 1
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- Sir Henry Orland Chamberlain (1773-1829), 1st Baronet was a British diplomat, consul general to Portugal
- Orland Ugham Lindsay (1928-2023), Antiguan Anglican clergyman, Bishop of Antigua from 1970 to 1996
- Orland Steen Loomis (1893-1942), American politician, Candidate for Governor of Wisconsin, 1940
- Orland Depue, American Democratic Party politician, Presidential Elector for West Virginia, 1916 2
- Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
- The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 19) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
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