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Where did the Scottish Woodbury family come from? What is the Scottish Woodbury family crest and coat of arms? When did the Woodbury family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Woodbury family history?
The Woodbury family chronicle reaches back into history to the Boernician tribe of ancient Scotland. The Woodbury family lived in any of a number of places of the same name in Ayrshire, Kincardine, and Midlothian. The place-name Woodbury 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 Woodbury would have lived near such a stream.
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Spelling variations occur frequently in Scottish names that date from the medieval era. They result from a general lack of grammatical rules and the tendency to spell names according to sound. Woodbury 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.
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In the 20th century, the ancestors of many of those Boernician-Scottish people still populate North America. They distributed themselves on either side of the border at the time of the War of Independence. United Empire Loyalists went north to Canada and those who wanted a new nation stayed south. Both groups went on to found great nations. Some of the first North American settlers with Woodbury name or one of its variants:
Woodbury Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- John Woodbury, who arrived in Salem, Mass in 1624
- Humphrey Woodbury, who landed in New England in 1628
- William Woodbury, who arrived in Beverly, Mass in 1630
- Nicholas Woodbury, who landed in Salem, Mass in 1638
- Peter Woodbury, who arrived in Beverly, Mass in 1640
Woodbury Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- S Woodbury, who landed in San Francisco, Cal in 1851
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- Levi Woodbury (1789-1851), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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- Joan Woodbury (1915-1989), American actress
- Cliff Woodbury (1894-1984), American racecar driver
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- Peter Woodbury (1899-1970), Judge of the United States Court of Appeals
- Gordon Woodbury (1863-1924), United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy
- Bruce L. Woodbury (b. 1944), American politician and lawyer in Nevada
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