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The scotland Surname

scotland Name Meaning and History

English: ethnic name for someone from Scotland.
English: from the rare Norman personal name Escotland, composed of the ethnic name Scot + land ‘territory’.
Scottish: habitational name from a place called Scotland(well) near Loch Leven in Kinross.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Distribution of scotland Families in the US in 1920

Number of scotland families

11-19

4-10

1-3

Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 14 - Messages: 35

Thread	Author	Replies
Charlotte Scotland	amcgregor1947	0
Thomas SCOTLAND born in 1894, Alloa, Clackmannanshire.	Kevin Scotland	3
John Scotland	smswstoner	10
SCOTLAND family	kerencallaghan1	4
Thomas Scotland	Anne Marie Scotland	1
Scotland family in Newcastle	purpleheather1	0
Alexander SCOTLAND	Karen_Steel	0
Scotland family name- Liverpool england	kerencalalghan	0
Abigail Scotland nee Allicocke	Richard Allicock	4
Please Help FInd Information, Census and Other Help on Scotland/Donald/Rennie	F_Laffin	0

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