Noland, 0 Nowlan, O Nolan, Nowlan, Nolan, Noland from the Diminutive of Nuall, Meaning Clamour
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THE STEPHEN--DANIEL LINE OF THE NOIAND FAMILY F,dw J Ronshe im Sr Anderson, Indo- 5-l-19;u THE STEPHEN--DANIEL LINE OF THE NOIAND FAMILY -1 F,dw J Ronsheim Sr - Anderson, Indo- 5-1-19% "0 Nowlane, 0 Nolane, 0 Noland, 0 Nowlan, O Nolan, Nowlan, Nolan, Noland from the diminutive of Nuall, meaning clamour. The surname .was founded in County Carlow in the 10th century. ,t ttNuallain: .:a 6 v. intro, I howl, roar. 11 nNu.allan: ain, mo, cry, howl, clamour." The above shows the original name, tells its meaning and gives a few of the many ways it is spelled. .This was summarized from mapy books on Ireland and the Irisho It makes clear, too, that claims tlia't·this or that spelling is an other family are wrongo The story herewith will show soma 29 different spellings. It must be remembered that those who could read or write were few indeed until fairly recent times o These few put down as best they could from the way a name sounded the letters to spell ito In other words phonetic spelling gave us the many versions of the name of Noland. Official explanation of the crest used by the ancient family say this: ••No• 1 land - Nowlarrl (Irish)'', crest a "demi-lion rampant, guo ' This is at the top of the Coat of Arms, which takes severa],. forms with the most simple shown belowo t, 7 ' ~ ~ i 4 The lion (rampant) and the quarters of' above are in red, the swords and marlets (birds) in silver with the cross in goldo The wo:rds below, the motto, mean: "One Heart, One Way.,. The ·stephen-Daniel Line Of The Noland Family --2 This is the story of a fragment of the Noland (and the naIIE will be spelled in this manner for the most part in the text of this story) familyo Actually, it is but a small part of that fragment because missing one name back JOO years ago would result in the loss of thousands by now o And many, many names have been missed through the centurieso But enough remains to create again a family which covers a nationo Included in these pages are excerpts from great volumes o As one of the experts with the Genealogical Office at Dublin Castle, Ireland, writes~ "it is gener ally regarded as being compounded of myth, legend and fact, in fairly equal proportions." And regarding one set of books in particular, it was said, ~even where he is dealing with fact (the author) is very sparing of references and he seldom indicates sources o tt But these myths and legends are of so great an interest they are being incl~ded in part, in Appendix Ao Turning now from myth and legend we find the name as Nolan or 0 1 Nolan in county Carlow about 1000 AoDo, not as kings and princes traditional in yet 11 earlier days, but certainly bearing the title of ·chiefU o Mention is made that King Henry II (ll~-1189) confirmed to 0 11 Nolan his rights and -.possession of land in Carlowo 0 1Hart mentions, and just that, a James Butler, F.arl or· Ormonde, who married in 1328, Eleanor, granddaughter of' &iward lo This same Butler is shown as waging war against the 0 9Nolans. By two centuries later the family had spread far beyond Carlowo Thomas Nolan, Ballinrobe, county Mayo, received a patent to "four quartersn of land in Ballin robe. This was in 1.586 when Thomas acted as nc1erk in said Countrey't o Prior to 11 this the family had lived at "The Crevaghe o Given nares later common to the family in America appear frequently •in this periodo Shortly after this came the period of Cromwell with the Noland families sup porting, for the most partj the Royal family. Gregory Nolan, Thomas Molan and Peter Nolane were with the ·•149'ers11 as officers in the sunnner of 1649 when Cromwell crushed the oppositiono And this defeat became a personal loss to the Noland line as the victor confiscated their property and "transplanted" its members to distant parts of Ireland.a Among the ''Transplanters 16.53-~ '' from Connaught were Andrew, Ann, Gregory, John, Joseph, Mary, Nell, Patrick, Thomas and 1'W'idow Mary" Noland, also Mary Nolane and Thomas Nolane. From the "Books of Survey and Distribution" we get greater detailo Quoting, in part, we have: County 11ayo, parish of }Aagawagh, Cloonaghmore, from John Nolan to Lord Yayo, Jeoffry Prendergast and Remigins Bermingham; parish of Killfryan, from John Nolan, part of the town of Ballyneg~ to Richard Frank lin; also from John Nolan, "half owner'' j and John Gardner, 'a ~otestant", half owner, Duncantrew, to Sir Arthur Gore and John Gardner; etc., etc. 'l'he movemen~ ~h;ch Cromwell started shortly became a migrationo Official The Stephen--Oaniel Line or The Noland Family -3 records in Maryland show that Catherine Nolan reached Anrarica in 1655; in the service of SIE,in we .find Capt. Don Diego Nolane in 1660, Adjutant Don Nicolas Nolan in 1661, and Capto Don Juan Nolan in 16630 Later we .find Field 'Marshal Lto O'Nowlin with Austrian forceso Records indicate that many of the name crossed over to France o Even as late as 1726 a Capto Moses Nolan, of Carlow, was hanged in Dublin for having »smpP1t men from Ireland to Franceo And Farl Noland Saucier, of the Mississippi line of tlE family, found a record while searching in Quebec severa 1 years ago: arr1ving (about 1680) ttat Quebec, Pierre Noland, Irelandois.'" That this word is shown as Noland and the date both are importanto It was just about this time that Pierc·e Noland reached Marylando Nor can Baltic nations be passed over. In 1941 an Albert To Noland, age 71j died here in Andersono His people came from Swedeno It was only twenty years af'ter the death of Oliver Cromwell when the Noland move to Maryland began in a major way. Probably the sons of those who had es tates confiscated and families displaced, to use a modern wordo Records in the Hall of Records, at Annapolis, record· the coming of Thomas ... Nowland in 1678. He may have settled in Anne Arundel countyo A photostat copy from the office of' th~ Land Corrmissioner shows: "November 1, 1678 - Capto John Quigley imported into this province in the Ship St. George or London 180 persons", and in list is ttTho. Nowland1•0 On Novo 22, 1678, Quigley sold the 50 acres of larid received for passage of nThomas Nowland'-o On that sane ship came "Shillam'' (William) Nowland to settle in Sto Mary's county. William appears several times in records for the next forty years, once in "The Black Book't, official record of persons found guilty of almost any kind of law violationo Here, for a minor offense, he was sentenced and barely escaped hanging before friends secured a pardon from the govemoro It seems probable he remained in Sto Mary's countyo Of course, coming to Maryland a year before Thomas and William was J:"hillip Now land. He is recorded as landing in 1677 o Then, strange to say, he passes out of lfaryland records to appear again (based on nsny records) in Virginia where an estate settlement shows his death as August 1, 17330 This Philip seems to be the ancestor of the great "Loudoun Countytt line which reaches into all southern states, through Indiana to the west and yet remains an important Vir ginia family-. The honor of being the first Nowland family to reach Maryland goes to Henry, who lamed in 1679 with his wife and two sorlso They quickly moved to the East Shore and settled in the Kent County area o It would be almost impossib~e to determine if they retained their identity or merged with the Cecil County· Nolans. With the Catherine, mentioned earlier, these form the five ~mbers of the name to reach l.llryland while re-cords of landings remain reasonably intacto But other records tell the rest of the story of early comerso The stephen-Daniel Line Of The Noland Family One of these unrecorded aITivals was Darby Nolano That he reached l!aryland not long after 1680 is shown by the fact that "Bandon Bridge'-t, an estate of 60 acres, was patented to him June 12, 1688 o This land had been surveyed in 1687 o The Land Office records show it was south of Boliemia river in Cecil County to the east of a creek. lmown, through the years, as Sto Augustine, Smith and Scotchmans, and which is just west of present UoSo highway 2130 Either merged with the family of Henry Nowland, shown above, or alone the Dar by line has become third only to those of Philip above or Peirce Noland belowo Before taking up Pierce Noland, the ancestor of the family with which th:is story deals, there. are a few others of the name requiring mentiono There was the Nolan family which reached 1,assachusetts in 1634 from Ratte~den, Suffolk, ~land.• A Mrso Alice Nolinds, mentioned in an English will of 1692, as liv ing in Marylando She was young and likely the wife of one of these early mem bers of the familyo Estate recordsj in the form of a will., inventories, accounts ar.d testamentary papers show Darby Nolan on Septo 20, 1694, in Cecil County with Ann Nolan~ Ann was a Browningo It is interesting to note that in two short paragraphs the last name of Alice is shown as Nolinds, Nelenes and Nelmes.