Milbourne History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
England

The name Milbourne is a local name for someone who lived in or by the places named Milborne, Milbourne and Milburn. Literally the place name means "mill stream," from the Old English "myln" + "burna." 1

Some of the parishes date back to Saxon times when Milborne, Port Somerset was known as Mylenburnam c. 880 and Milborne St Andrew, Dorset was known as Muleburne in 934.

The Domesday Book of 1086 lists Meleburne (Somerset), and Meleburne (Dorset.) 2

Early Origins of the Milbourne family

The surname Milbourne was first found in Dorset where Hugh de Meleburn was recorded as holding lands in 1201. A few years later in Yorkshire, Walter de Milleburne was recorded in 1251 and later again, William Milbourne was recorded in the Feet of Fines for Essex in 1465. 3

Early records of the name mention Margaret de Milleburn, Northumberland in the Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 and Edward Milborne of Yorkshire, in the Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1379. 4

Early History of the Milbourne family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Milbourne research. Another 146 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1464, 1536, 1622, 1633, 1646, 1649, 1660, 1662, 1668, 1670, 1683, 1720 and 1743 are included under the topic Early Milbourne History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Milbourne Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Milburn, Milborne, Milbourn, Milbourne, Milburne, Melbourne and many more.

Early Notables of the Milbourne family

Notable amongst the family name during their early history was

Luke Milbourne (1622-1668), an ejected minister, the incumbent of Wroxhall, Warwickshire

Milbourne migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Milbourne Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

William Milbourne, who arrived in Boston, Massachusetts in 1699 5

Milbourne Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Charles Cotton Milbourne, aged 56, who landed in New York, NY in 1812 5

Contemporary Notables of the name Milbourne (post 1700) +

Ryan Milbourne, American artist, known for Come to Daddy (2019), The Exorcist (2016) and The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
Harvey Lee Milbourne (1895-1966), American politician, U.S. Consul in Hankow, 1928-29; Cologne, 1930-32; Quebec City, 1932; Windsor, 1936-41; Calcutta, 1941; SAINT Lucia, 1941; Chungking, 1943-46 6
Graeme Milbourne Clark AC, FRS (b. 1935), Australian responsible for the pioneering research and development of the Bionic Ear, appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (Australia’s highest civil honor) in 2004
Milbourne Christopher (1914-1984), American performing magician

Citations +

Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)
Smith, George (ed), Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1885-1900. Print
Reaney, P.H and R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-415-05737-X)
Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 23) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html