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The annals of Scottish history suggest that the ancestors of the name Woodburne lived among the Boernician tribe of the Scottish-English border region. The Woodburne family lived in any of a number of places of the same name in Ayrshire, Kincardine, and Midlothian. The place-name Woodburne 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 Woodburne would have lived near such a stream.
The surname Woodburne was 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 Woodburne research. Another 59 words (4 lines of text) covering the years 1500, 1506 and 1685 are included under the topic Early Woodburne History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
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. Woodburne has appeared as Woodburn, Woodburne, Woodbine, Woodbourne, Whiteburn and many more.
More information is included under the topic Early Woodburne Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
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 Woodburne, or a variant listed above: