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Where did the English Rowland family come from? What is the English Rowland family crest and coat of arms? When did the Rowland family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Rowland family history?
The Rowland surname comes from the Norman personal name Rol(l)an, which derives from the Germanic elements "hrod," meaning "renown," and "land," meaning "territory’." Much of the Medieval popularity of this name was as a result of Roland (d. 778), a famed peer of Charlemagne's.
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Spelling variations of this family name include: Rolland, Roland, Rowland, Rowlands, Rowlandson, Rolan and many more.First found in Bedfordshire , where a record in the Domesday Book lists Roland as being a landholder in Beeston (Bistone). The were in neighboring Huntingdonshire from the early 12th century. Domesday as mentions a place called Rowland, in Derbyshire.
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Some of the Rowland family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. Another 97 words(7 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products.
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Some of the first settlers of this family name were:
Rowland Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- John Rowland settled in Virginia in 1635
- Jo Rowland, aged 21, arrived in Bermuda in 1635
- Richard Rowland, aged 20, arrived in Virginia in 1635
- Lewis Rowland, who landed in Virginia in 1652
- Daniel Rowland settled in Virginia in 1653
Rowland Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Mark Rowland, who landed in Virginia in 1701-1702
- Walter Rowland, who landed in Virginia in 1711
- Katherine Rowland, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1727
- Casper Rowland, aged 20, arrived in Pennsylvania in 1741
- Jacob Rowland, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1761
Rowland Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- William Rowland, aged 28, arrived in New York in 1812
- John Rowland, who landed in Mississippi in 1846
- George Rowland, who arrived in San Francisco, Cal in 1851
- Casper, Charles, John, Priscilla, Richard, Thomas, and William Rowland all arrived in Philadelphia between 1840 and 1870
- Charles Rowland, who landed in St Clair County, III in 1896
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- Henry Augustus Rowland (1848-1901), American physicist
- Robert Rowland (b. 1917), American, USAF General
- Clarence Henry "Pants" Rowland (1879-1969), American Major League Baseball manager
- John Grosvenor Rowland (b. 1957), American politician, Governor of Connecticut (1995-2004)
- Helen Rowland (1875-1950), American journalist and humorist
- Wirt C. Rowland (1887-1946), American architect
- Sir James Anthony Rowland (1922-1999), Australian, Air Marshall, who became the 33rd Governor of New South Wales
- Frank Sherwood Rowland (b. 1927), Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine
- Bruce Rowland (b. 1942), award-winning Australian composer
- Roland "Tiny" Rowland (1917-1998), British businessman and chairman of the Lonrho conglomerate from 1962 to 1994
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- John C. Rowland, Missouri Pioneer and his Kin by Vaden R. Mayers.
- Sons of Frontiersmen: History & Genealogy of Rowland, Whitmire and Associated Families by Billie Louise Owens.
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- Bede, The Venerable. Historia Ecclesiatica Gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History Of the English People). Available through Internet Medieval Sourcebook the Fordham University Centre for Medieval Studies. Print.
- Bolton, Charles Knowles. Bolton's American Armory. Baltimore: Heraldic Book Company, 1964. Print.
- Foster, Joseph. Dictionary of Heraldry Feudal Coats of Arms and Pedigrees. London: Bracken Books, 1989. Print. (ISBN 1-85170-309-8).
- Colletta, John P. They Came In Ships. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1993. Print.
- Humble, Richard. The Fall of Saxon England. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1975. Print. (ISBN 0-88029-987-8).
- Elster, Robert J. International Who's Who. London: Europa/Routledge. Print.
- Bullock, L.G. Historical Map of England and Wales. Edinburgh: Bartholomew and Son, 1971. Print.
- Williams, Dr Ann. And G.H. Martin, Eds. Domesday Book A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-141-00523-8).
- Crispin, M. Jackson and Leonce Mary. Falaise Roll Recording Prominent Companions of William Duke of Normandy at the Conquest of England. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print.
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