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Subject: ARKLAND
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 23:55:08 EDT

Arkland, Archland, etc.; (Perhaps also De Arkland, d'Arkland, and, maybe,
Darkland?)

I suspect that the most direct source of this surname is from a English
placename, Arkland, found in Scotland (also, in Low Arkland, where 'Low' is
probably 'Lough').

Persons bearing this surname are found in Scotland, England, Wales, and
Ireland.
Note that there is an Arkland in Maury Co., TN

The placename Arkland is probably of Norman French origin, probably meaning
"land along a river bend" . Hence ultimately of Germanic origin.

Arkland might be a Germanic (Franco-Germanic, hence English, Dutch, and
German)
application of Latin 'Arcus' "a bow" (whence 'arch'), used in the sense of an
arched piece of land or the bend of a river. Compare German 'arkfeld', which
may
mean a bow-shaped field. So, Arkfield, Archfield, etc. In that sense compare
the
English surname 'Bowland', 'Boland', meaning "land along a river bend".

I'm inclined to believe that the surname Arkland is Scottish English rather
than
German or Dutch. It does not seem to occur in the Censuses before 1840 (PA:
Joseph Arkland), and 1850 (NY: Henry D. Arkland age 16, Gertrude Arkland age
14,
both born "Conn"--probably an error?). Note that a "Mrs Arkland" immigrated to
Boston in 1837.

Halsey

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