Bourne Family History
Bourne Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream,
Old English burna, burne ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or a
habitational name from a place named with this word, for example Bourn
in Cambridgeshire or Bourne in Lincolnshire. This word was replaced as
the general word for a stream in southern dialects by Old English
broc (see Brook) and came to be restricted in meaning
to a stream flowing only intermittently, especially in winter.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bourne
Name Distribution of Bourne Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bourne families
 482 - 961  161 - 481 |
 1 - 160  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bourne families
|
7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bourne census records
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Bourne Family Origin
Bourne Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Bourne Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Bourne
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