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The
GARLAND Family of Mangotsfield, Bristol
A Local Kingswood, Bristol
area One Name Study (ONS) for the family name, including known links to
migrant families and descendants in the C19th mining communities of South Wales and the Black
Country (Dudley & Wolverhampton areas of the West Midlands), some
families having emigrated to frontier mining areas in Australia as well as the US (Kewanee, Illinois
& also Iowa).
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 Distribution of the family name in 1881
(above) and 2000/2005 data (below).
The name has a clear regional focus in the SW of England.
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Possible origins of name:
R R BLEWITT's "Cornish Surnames
Celtic List G" (1959)
cruc = hill or barrow, and alun or alein an old Breton personal
name. Together as GALYN, GALLAND, then GARLAND.
These origins would account for the name distribution above.
The name may be GARLANT in Wales where many miners went.
OE: "dirty land" as in
GORELAUNDE in 1242, a farm in Devon.
Other roots may include from GERNON(S) and GARNON(S) - Normandy families in
Hereford and from Ireland.
Information
about the GARLAND DNA project
Current head of my
family (Tree #1) is Robert
GARLAND = Mary
BRAIN 4.3.1738 (my 6xGGPs).
Their son George GARLAND (c.4.2.1753)
= Sarah
PHIPPS
at St George's, Bristol on 3.12.1775 (my 5xGGPs)
Later generations of this line married into the local BATEMAN,
PACKER, AMSON, JOHNSON, FREKE and BANFIELD families.
Another son Robert
GARLAND = Francise HOW in 1767 and had sons George GARLAND (c.
25.10.1767) & William GARLAND (c. 17.9.1770 with a line to the
modern day). A Bedminster family.
Tree #2, so far
unconnected to the above tree, is headed by John GARLAND = Hannah HOBBS who were
married in 1724 at St. Mary's, Bitton. Descendants of this pair married into
the well-known local Kingswood families of JONES, BRYANT, JOHNSON, PRICE, FREKE, ARTHURS, PIERCE,
BANFIELD and PALMER amongst many others.
Francis GARLAND (c1761- ):
Extract from "From Bristol Exported":
"Francis
GARLAND was one of six men (including John LEARY,
Joseph MORLEY
and Henry ROACH)
who committed a highway robbery stealing twelve yards of muslin and other
goods valued at £5.13s., for which they were sentenced to death at
Winchester, Hants, on 3 March 1783. GARLAND, reprieved to seven years’
transportation on 21 April, was sent to a Thames hulk and thence, with MORLEY
and ROACH, to the Mercury transport on 26 March 1784. GARLAND escaped after a
mutiny on board and was recaptured at Plymouth Dock [Devonport] with William ROBINSON
(q.v.) and William CASEY
and lodged in an Exeter goal
(probably the Bridewell, his name not on the Devon Gaol Calendar). Tried by
the Special Commission on -- May, GARLAND was sentenced to death again and
was not reprieved until 9 August. He was sent to the Dunkirk hulk, aged 23,
at the end of the month. His behaviour was "troublesome at times"
until embarked on Charlotte on 11 March 1787.
GARLAND's first and seemingly only record after landing at
Port Jackson in 1788 was his marriage on 24 December 1791 to Sarah BARTLAM
(Mary Ann 1791). No record of his
death has been found. In 1806 Sarah "BARTLUM" was a housekeeper to
John BAYLEY, in 1814 as Sarah BARTLETT she was living with Abraham KEMP
(Barwell 1798) and in 1828 a servant to George HALL at Pitt Town. GARLAND was
either dead before 1806 or left the colony without his wife. She died as
BARTLAM on 2 January 1848."
The above account would explain his absence
from Samuel's will.
Extract from "Bedminster Union
Workhouse" by Patricia LINDEGAARD:
Somerset RO, Workhouse Punishment Book (ref. D/G/BD87/1 1871–1904)
14/2/1897: punished for
"wilfully damaging the roof of the
boy's closets by pulling off and destroying a number of tiles and for very
bad conduct generally"
included Henry GARLAND aged 12, who received 4 strokes with the
birch. Punishment was inflicted "by
the Trainer, in the presence of the Master".
By 23.8.1897 Henry GARLAND was in trouble
again with some other lads, for "impudence",
when he received five strokes.
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The outline above is indicative only and not
necessarily fully correct or complete.
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http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/pt/pedigree.aspx?tid=9072976
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