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The name Wudbine comes from the Boernician Scottish-English border region. The Wudbine family lived in any of a number of places of the same name in Ayrshire, Kincardine, and Midlothian. The place-name Wudbine 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 Wudbine would have lived near such a stream.
The surname Wudbine 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 Wudbine research. Another 59 words (4 lines of text) covering the years 1500, 1506 and 1685 are included under the topic Early Wudbine History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Since medieval scribes spelled words according to sound, and since there were no consistent rules for the translation of rules from Gaelic to English, spelling variations are extremely common in Boernician names of this vintage. Wudbine has been spelled Woodburn, Woodburne, Woodbine, Woodbourne, Whiteburn and many more.
More information is included under the topic Early Wudbine Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Many of the Boernician-Scottish families who crossed the Atlantic settled along the eastern seaboard in communities that would become the backbone of the emerging nations of the United States and Canada. In the War of Independence, American families that remained loyal to the Crown moved north into Canada and became known as United Empire Loyalists. The ancestral culture of all of these proud Scottish families remains alive in North America in the 20th century through Clan societies and highland games. Early North American immigration records have revealed a number of people bearing the name Wudbine 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..