Family name CAQUELAND

[Chris01]

Hi

Can anyone help me? I've recently discovered that my 3x great grandmother's maiden name is CAQUELAND and she married in Jamaica in 1856. I've never come across that surname before. Can anyone tell me the origins of the surname? I can only find a couple people in Ancestry with that surname!

Thanking you in advance.

Chris

[lizdb]

Was she Jamaican? Maybe it is of Jamaican origin.

[Ruskie]

It is likely to have been written in several ways, mistranscribed and misinterpreted over the years making it difficult to trace. You'll probably have to use a bit of imagination when searching for her. 
Like Liz, I would be interested to know her place of birth and ethnic origins.

[Graham47]

Sounds like a phonetic transcription to me 

[garstonite]

Could Caqueland be an Anglecised version of Coquelin ? / Caquelin ?
https://familysearch.org/search/record/results#count=20&query=%2Bsurname%3Acaqueland~%20%2Bbirth_place%3Apicardie~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1800-1900~

allan

[keyboard86]

Lovely name, in the 1871 census for Dundee their is a 23 year old Governess with the name Celeste Caquelard single b France.
Census ref RG10/282/30/44
Keyboard86

[garstonite]

Oh dear - if it is CAQUELIN - there are 1,363 results on www.geneanet.org
http://en.geneanet.org/search/?name=caquelin&ressource=arbre
happy hunting...lol

[Chris01]

Many thanks for all your help. It certainly has given me food for thought. At the moment all I know is the date she married and when she died. I need to find her birth certificate.

Chris

[barryd]

familysearch.org has numerous references to the name and its variants. If you give us more information such as where your person lived and a full name then perhaps we can give you more information.

https://familysearch.org/search/record/results#count=20&query=%2Bsurname%3ACAQUELIN~%20%2Bresidence_place%3AEngland~