Midland meaning | Last name Midland origin

The Midland is the variation of Medland. This name has a 'local' look; but it appears to have been a bye, or additional, name borne at an early period. The Norman grandee, Robert de Beaumont, sometimes styled Meulant or Mellent, was called by the people of Leicester, his tenants, The Medland. Mr. Thompson, in Winchester Vol. of Brit. Archajolog. Assoc. That the name may still be local is shown by the occurrence in the Hundred Rolls of a Walter de Medelond, or Medeland.

Surname Midland is the variant form of Maitland. The Earl of Lauderdale's family were seated in the southern counties of Scotland as early at least as the XIII century. Their chief abode was Thirlstane in Berwickshire, but the name would appear to have been derived from a place in the parish of Inveresk, county of Edinburgh, called Magdalen Pans, by corruption Maitland Pans, from a chapel dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, which formerly stood there. This property continued in the family until 1710.

The lastname is a form of the Maitland. Dweller at, or on, the meadow or pasture land.