Wudbing History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Behind the name Wudbing is a story that begins in the ancient Scottish-English border region among the clans of the Boernician tribe. The Wudbing family lived in any of a number of places of the same name in Ayrshire, Kincardine, and Midlothian. The place-name Wudbing 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 Wudbing would have lived near such a stream.

Early Origins of the Wudbing family

The surname Wudbing 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 Wudbing family

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Wudbing Spelling Variations

Before the printing press and the first dictionaries appeared, names and other words were often spelled differently every time they were written. Wudbing has appeared under the variations Woodburn, Woodburne, Woodbine, Woodbourne, Whiteburn and many more.

Early Notables of the Wudbing family

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Migration of the Wudbing family to Ireland

Some of the Wudbing 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 Wudbing family

The Scots who crossed the Atlantic were often on the run from poverty as well as persecution. They brought little with them, and often had nothing of their home country to hand down to their children. In the 20th century, Clan societies and other patriotic Scottish organizations have helped the ancestors of Boernician Scots to recover their lost national legacy. Many of those families went on to make significant contributions to the rapidly developing colonies in which they settled. Early North American records indicate many people bearing the name Wudbing were among those contributors: 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..