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GARTLAND Family History

Recorded in various spellings including Gartlan, Gartlen, Gartland, and Garthland, this is an Anglo-Scottish surname. It is best described as residential because it may relate either to a person who came from a village called Garthland, near Kilbimmie, in Scotland, or more as the name is more prominent in England, for somebody who lived at a 'garth-land' described as enclosed ground used as a yard or paddock. Topographical surnames were among the earliest created, since both natural and man-made features in the landscape provided easily recognisable distinguishing names in the small communities of the Middle Ages.