Sandland Snippets

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Snippets of Sandland Information - Enjoy!

This page has developed over the years with bits of information (snippets) I have received/researched on the historic members of the Sandland family and other related information.

Included here are also are bits of information received from other Sandland members (or associates of the Sandland family) that may be of interest to others. If you have anything that you would like to appear on this page, please contact me.

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Henry Sandland - Transported to Australia

Henry Sandland and a James Spark were indicted for breaking and entering a dwelling house on 18th Mar 1841 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London and stealing two silver bottles. They were found guilty of theft and were sentenced to transportation to Australia for ten years. Henry was then aged 22 years. They were put on the convict ship "Barossa" which sailed from Sheerness for Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land on 30th Aug 1841. A copy of a Secretary of State paper in Whitehall, London states that Henry was in Australia and still alive on 31st Dec 1842.

He died on the 15th Oct 1869 in the District of Brighton, Tasmania (formerly Van Diemen's Land) he was aged 47 years (Reference:  Tasmanian Pioneer Index on CD Year 1869 No. 30.

(Information in this last paragraph was provided by Maureen Martin (Genealogist), Launceston, Tasmania, Australia - Thanks Maureen).

Click here for Henry's record.

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Sandland Pottery

Sandland Pottery was manufactured in Hanley, Staffordshire, England. Enquiries to the Potters Museum shows that a firm called Sandland & Colley Limited (Lichfield Pottery) manufacture pottery in Hanley from 1907 - 1910.

More prolifically, and much more well known, is the Lancaster & Sandland of Dresden Works, Hanley who manufactured 'Sandland Ware' pottery from 1944 until the 1970s. The Dresden Works was situated on the corner of Clough Street and Mount Pleasant, Hanley but no longer used as a pot bank or pottery works. The Lancaster of Lancaster & Sandland also manufactured pottery under the name of Lancaster & Son from 1900 to 1944.

No doubt members of the Sandland family from Staffordshire and the nearby Shropshire were involved in the pottery industry well before the years indicated above.

There are many fine pieces of 'Sandland Ware' still on sale today in antique shops and from pottery collectors in the United Kingdom and in the USA. Some of these can be seen and bid for on eBay.

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Sandland Street - London

There is a Sandland Street in Red Lion Square, Holborn, London. It was named after William Sandland who lived at Hatton Garden and who was a member of the Board of Works for the Holborn District of London.

William died in 1879 at the age of 70 years - his Will was proved 15 Dec 1879.

Click here for William's record.

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Sandland Road - Willenhall

There is a Sandland Road in Willenhall, West Midlands that is believed to be named after the family of Egbert Sandland (Methodist Lay Preacher 1900's). This information has been provided by Nancy Juniper (descendant of the West Midland Sandland family).

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Mayor of Dunstable

There was a Thomas Sandland who was Mayor of Dunstable, Bedfordshire in the 1950s and had a road, Sandland Close, named after him. It would appear that the family came from Lanchester in County Durham.

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Sandland Post Office - Norway

It appears that there is a post office in a small village community in Norway with the name of Sandland. The village is located not far from Hammerfest (almost as far north as possible) and the post office is still operating up to this day. Estimated population within a 7 km radius is 62 peoples.

This information has been kindly provided by the Sandland family at Vestfold, Toenssberg, Norway (Aasmund and Trond). The family originates from Telemark.

Thanks for your support.

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Sandland - Wem, Shropshire

This is taken from a book called "The Story of Wem". Wem is a small town in Shropshire, England. "Noble Street, called "Back Street" - it contained the school (original building 1670), the Headmaster's house, Sandland's house (built on the site of the Civil War prison) which was sold in 1840 by Joseph Sandland to Edward Gough." The same book refers to a Thomas Sandland, church warden and overseer of the poor - ".........deeply thinking".

Also taken from a book called "The History of Wem" which refers to - The Parish of Wem, Shropshire, England. A copy of this book can be viewed in the town library of Whitchurch, Shropshire.

"The parish of Wem lies in the deanery of Newport and is subject to the visitations of the Archdeacon of Salop (Shropshire). The length of it from east to west, that is from Ball's of the Brook, to Black Waterford, is six miles; the breadth of it from the north to south, that is from Sandland's Brook in the confines of Whitchurch parish to Billow Brook that divides it from the liberties of Shrewsbury, is five miles."

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Birmingham - Connecticut Link 1

There was a Thomas Sandland who married a Priscilla Hartell in Birmingham on 24th Oct 1783 (It is though that Thomas came from Shropshire - my ancestral territory). They had at least two children - Mary Ann born/baptised 13th Oct 1787, she married James Clowes in Birmingham 27th May 1815.  

Another child of Thomas & Priscilla was William born/baptised 29th Mar 1785 in Birmingham. From information sent to me from a Milton Sandlin (from Texas), it would appear that William emigrated to America - he died aged 56 years on 13th Mar 1841 and was buried at Waterbury Cemetery, Connecticut. It was inscripted on his head-stone "Sacred to the memory of William Sandland formally of Birmingham, England".

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Birmingham - Connecticut Link 2

There was a James A. Sandland (approx. dob 1820-1825) of Birmingham England whose first wife died at age 24, remarried Harriet Pompling. They gave birth to Chas. A. Sandland (dob 2nd Oct 1854). It is not known if they moved to Waterbury Connecticut before or after the birth. Chas.A Sandland married Emma C. Ward (dob 9th Mar 1858) both of Waterbury.  They gave birth to several children, George Henry Sandland (dob 25th Jul 1886) and William Sandland (dob???) who I've been told served as the Mayor of Waterbury Connecticut. He also served with the Waterbury Button Company (President?) in Waterbury and helped in resolving the brass strike during WW I which hampered the War effort. The Sandlands were known "burnishers" and were involved in the Button Industry and introduced gold plated brass buttons in the US.

George Henry Sandland married Leonora Zilliox (dob 28th Feb 1895) and lived in Newark, New Jersey where they had 5 children George Henry (died 2000), Edith Leonora (died Feb 2000 she was married to Gordon F Winne), Evelyn Ruth, Leonora Alice and Theodore Charles. George Henry Sandland was a jeweller designing some of the first stamped rings. George and William also had other siblings which are not know at this time.

Evelyl Ruut (daughter of Edith Leonora Sandland noted above) provided some of the information relating to the listed children).

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