Woodborough History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Etymology of Woodborough

The ancestors of the name Woodborough stretch back to a family in the Boernician tribe of ancient Scotland. They lived in any of a number of places of the same name in Ayrshire, Kincardine, and Midlothian. The place-name Woodborough 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 Woodborough would have lived near such a stream.

Early Origins of the Woodborough family

Early History of the Woodborough family

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

Woodborough Spelling Variations

Spelling rules only evolved in the last few centuries with the invention of the printing press and the first dictionaries. Spelling variations are extremely common in names from before that period. Woodborough has been spelled Woodburn, Woodburne, Woodbine, Woodbourne, Whiteburn and many more.

Early Notables of the Woodborough family

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Migration of the Woodborough family to Ireland

Some of the Woodborough 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 Woodborough family

After making their great crossing, many Boernician-Scottish families settled along the east coast of North America. When the War of Independence broke out, United Empire Loyalists moved north to Canada while the rest stayed to fight. The ancestors of many of these Scots still populate the continent. This century, through Clan societies and other Scottish organizations, they began to rediscover their collective national heritage. Analysis of immigration records indicates that some of the first North American immigrants bore the name Woodborough 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..