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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 believed to have emigrated to Australia as well as the US (Kewanee, Illinois & also Iowa).

Information about the GARLAND DNA project

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) married 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 married 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 and 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.

My GARLAND Data / GARLAND (Mangotsfield) / GARLAND Baptisms 1754-1837
This file is made available on the understanding that any additions, corrections and new links will be reported back to help future research.
Note that some research is confusing and some information supplied in good faith has not proven to be wholly accurate. The truth is somewhere in the data!

Will of Samuel GARLAND 1/5/1802 – Proved 3/11/1806:

"I Samuel GARLAND now living in the Parish of Mangotsfield in the County of Gloucester do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament as follows: I give devise and bequeath unto my wife Amy GARLAND all that dwelling house that I now living in and orchard garden and one Inclosure Rented now by William BRAIN (crossed out: "and one other little leasehold cottages rented by Thomas GARLAND my son...") to take all Rents and Profits for the term of her natural life All the said Premises is (Ioiened) together in the Parish of Mangotsfield and County aforenamed after my wife decease I give and devise and bequeath the whole of my effects aforegiven to my wife to be equally divided between my children hereinafter named that is I give one fifth part unto my son Samuel GARLAND one other fifth part unto my son Henry GARLAND one other fifth part unto my son Thomas GARLAND and other fifth part unto my daughter Mary JONES wife of Edward JONES one other fifth part unto my daughter Hannah GARLAND. And my will is that if Any of my sons or daughters shall die before theirs fifth part becomes due that their issues shall have theirs fifth part divided between all of them and if any of my sons or daughters should want to sell or dispose of his or her part that they shall be at liberty immediately to sell for the most money they can have for the same. I give and bequeath to my wife Amy GARLAND all my household goods and all moneys to be Injoyed and used by her for the Term of her Natural Life and after my wife decease I give and bequeath to my daughter Hannah GARLAND my Dwelling House that I now living in excepted from the fore givings for so long a time as her doth continue a singerley young woman, But if her doth marry or cohabit with any man then it shall become void (true) her immediately and Injoyed by her no longer time.
Executors appointed: Henry & Thomas GARLAND
Witnesses: James PALMER, William STONE, William FREKE
Under £200."

Points of Note:
William BRAIN – perhaps he who married Amy or Emma GARLAND on 17.5.1813, Bristol St James. William FREKE – witness (various FREKE/GARLAND marriages).

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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