Woodvine History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Scotland
Ireland

The annals of Scottish history suggest that the ancestors of the name Woodvine lived among the Boernician tribe of the Scottish-English border region. The Woodvine family lived in any of a number of places of the same name in Ayrshire, Kincardine, and Midlothian. The place-name Woodvine 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 Woodvine would have lived near such a stream.

Early Origins of the Woodvine family

The surname Woodvine was first found in Northumberland, where they held a family seat from very ancient times, before and after the Norman Conquest of 1066.

Early History of the Woodvine family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Woodvine research. Another 59 words (4 lines of text) covering the years 1500, 1506 and 1685 are included under the topic Early Woodvine History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Woodvine Spelling Variations

In the Middles Ages scribes spelled names by their sound. Often a name was written under a different spelling variation each time it was recorded. Woodvine has appeared as Woodburn, Woodburne, Woodbine, Woodbourne, Whiteburn and many more.

Early Notables of the Woodvine family

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Migration of the Woodvine family to Ireland

Some of the Woodvine family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. More information about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Migration of the Woodvine family

The ancestors of Boernician-Scottish settlers dot North America even today. They settled all along the east coast when they came over, but some went north as United Empire Loyalists at the time of the War of Independence. However, these strong lines endured as Scottish families in the United States and Canada have rediscovered much of the heritage that was taken from them centuries ago. Some of the first immigrants to cross the Atlantic and come to North America carried the name Woodvine, 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..