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  • Adriaan Roland Holst (1888 - 1976)
    Zie Wikipedia... * Dichter
  • Ainarde Dupuy (1310 - 1362)
  • Alice Bulkeley (deceased)
    See Peter Bartrum, (March 12, 2018; Anne Brannen, curator)
  • Anne-Françoise Roland (c.1699 - 1758)
    Sources: Census - "Census of Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, 1745" edited by Bill Barron (age: 46) Anne Francoise Roland (1700-1758) packed a great deal of living into her comparatively sh...
  • Anne Funk (1727 - 1794)
    Not the wife of Capt. Samuel Floyd of South Carolina. Life summary of Ann Roland Funk (from ) When Ann Roland was born in 1727, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, her father, John...

About the Roland surname

Roland – Gnr 125, in Fåberg, Gudbrandsdalen, Oppland, Norway

The farm was established before year 1000. No people was left after the Black Death in 1349. The name Roland means establishing new land. The farm was in 1647 described as "Rolland ødegaard" and was ruled by the Prestegården (parsonage) – owning ½ fur. The farm was established as a separate farm before 1665. The farm had its mountain chalet at Ruka, Rukkjølen. First known owner of Roland was Amund Roland, mentioned in 1620-1647.

The farm Roland was divided 14. April 1894 in Øvre Roland Gnr 125 bnr 1 and Nedre Roland Gnr 125.