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Origins Available: English, Scottish Where did the Scottish Woodbeck family come from? What is the Scottish Woodbeck family crest and coat of arms? When did the Woodbeck family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Woodbeck family history? A Boernician family in ancient Scotland first used the name Woodbeck. They lived in any of a number of places of the same name in Ayrshire, Kincardine, and Midlothian. The place-name Woodbeck comes from the Old English words, wudu and burna, which mean wood and stream. The place-name referred to a stream which ran through the woods. The original bearer of the surname Woodbeck would have lived near such a stream.Scribes in the Middle Ages simply spelled according to sound. The result is an enormous number of spelling variations among names that evolved in that era. Woodbeck has been spelled Woodburn, Woodburne, Woodbine, Woodbourne, Whiteburn and many more. First found in Northumberland, where they held a family seat from very ancient times, before and after the Norman Conquest of 1066. This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Woodbeck research. Another 139 words(10 lines of text) covering the years 1500, 1506, and 1685 are included under the topic Early Woodbeck History in all our PDF Extended History products. More information is included under the topic Early Woodbeck Notables in all our PDF Extended History products. Some of the Woodbeck family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. Another 223 words(16 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products. Most of the Boernician-Scottish families who came to North America settled on the eastern seaboard of what would become the United States and Canada. Families who wanted a new order stayed south in the War of Independence, while those who were still loyal to the crown went north to Canada as United Empire Loyalists. In the 20th century, the ancestors of these families have gone on to rediscover their heritage through Clan societies and other patriotic Scottish organizations. Research into the origins of individual families in North America has revealed records of the immigration of a number of people bearing the name Woodbeck or a variant listed above: Mary Woodburne, who came to in Virginia in 1685 with her husband; as well as James W. Robert and William Woodburn, who both arrived in Philadelphia between 1864-1878..
The Woodbeck Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Woodbeck Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname. This page was last modified on 27 October 2010 at 14:05. ©2000-2012 Swyrich Corporation. See Terms of Use for details. houseofnames.com is an internet property owned by Swyrich Corporation. Tools
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