Re: what does Cridland mean?
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In reply to:
what does Cridland mean?
9/17/01
according to
A Dictionary of English Surnames
~P.H. Reaney, et al
Oxford University Press
Paperback - 24 April, 1997
Cridland is a corruption of Crioda's land I believe Crioda was a saxon prince of wessex (UK)
in the western part of the british isles a substantial proportion of surnames are locative in origin