Last name: Gorling  Recorded in many forms including Garland,
Garling, Garlinge, Gerling, Girling, Gorling, Gorlinge, and
others, this is a surname which is arguably of Anglo-Saxon and
Germanic origins. It is claimed to derive from the word "geri"
meaning a spear, to which was added various suffix such as "-in,
-ing, or -en" being short forms of "kin" to indicate a close
relationship, and sometimes the plural "s" a short form of the
patronymic "son". This type of "name" was very typical of the
period in history known as "The Dark Ages" roughly from the end
of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the coming of Emperor
Charlamagne in the 8th. As such ir may have been a patronymic or
it could have been occupataional in some instances and to have
described a spearman or the son of a spearman. Later after the
11th century and the famous Crusades to the Holy Land, there was
a revival in Christian belief, and biblical names replaced many
of the early pagan names, but not this one. It is uncertain how
many surname