Wudebing History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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The ancestors of the surname Wudebing were thought to have been a Boernician family in ancient Scotland. They lived in any of a number of places of the same name in Ayrshire, Kincardine, and Midlothian. The place-name Wudebing 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 Wudebing would have lived near such a stream.

Early Origins of the Wudebing family

The surname Wudebing 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 Wudebing family

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

Wudebing Spelling Variations

Before the first dictionaries and printing presses went into use in the last few hundred years, spelling, particularly of names, was a largely intuitive matter. Consequently, many spelling variations occur in even the simplest names from the Middle Ages. Wudebing has been spelled Woodburn, Woodburne, Woodbine, Woodbourne, Whiteburn and many more.

Early Notables of the Wudebing family

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Migration of the Wudebing family to Ireland

Some of the Wudebing 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 Wudebing family

The east coasts of the United States and Canada are still populated by many of the descendents of the Boernician-Scottish families who made that great crossing. They distributed themselves evenly when they first arrived, but at the time of the War of Independence those who remained loyal to England went north to Canada as United Empire Loyalists. This century, many of their ancestors have recovered their past heritage through highland games and other Scottish functions in North America. Many of these hardy settlers went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Investigation of the origins of family names on the North American continent has revealed that many immigrants bearing the name Wudebing 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..