What Does The Surname Boreland Mean In Scotland?

It is a name that taken from a locality.
In Scotland there are places called Boreland in Dumfrieshire, Fife, Galloway and Perthshire. The origin of the word appears to denote a 'home-farm'.
In 1684, Thomas Borlands was a writer in Edinburgh and the poet Alexander Boreland was a friend of Tannerhill.
The name appears as a surname in early documents from all over Scotland.
From Marriages, charters, birth and death records we can find alot of information for surnames.
A Marion Bordland was recorded in Righeid, Lesmahago, Lanakshire in 1625.
James Bordland was a witness in 1513 in Ayrshire and an Allan Bordlands was listed as a weaver in a marriage record in Edinburgh in 1609.

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