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The origin of the name of Harland
Posted by Alan Harland <viking5959@tiscali.co.uk> on Sat, 27 May 2006, in response to Harland Family Tree, posted by Tracey Vincent (Harland) on Tue, 13 May 2003
I've been doing some research into the origin of our family name and it apparently comes from Harland Moor which is two miles north of the town of Kirkbymoorside (The church by the moor side) in North Yorkshire, England. There used to be a big settlement on Harland Moor in the middle ages when the area was thickly forested. Eventually the occupants cut down all the woodlands without planting any new trees and the whole area became barren heath and moorland and it is now uninhabited. All the inhabitants were forced to move away to make a living and most of them settled all around the Vale of York where there are thousands of Harlands still dwelling at present, keeping the name of their original home. Many others just kept travelling around the world often to faraway places like North America and Australia. My family moved eastwards to Scarborough on the Yorkshire coast. My grandfather George Harland worked on the railways and was a sergeant in the First World War serving mainly in Ireland. My father Harold Norman Harland was a baker by trade and in the Second World War he served with Mongomery's army in North Africa. Please let me know if you can trace your family name of Harland back to this region of Yorkshire.Responses
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