Colburn Family History
Colburn Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place named with Old English
col ‘cool’ + burna ‘stream’, as for example Colburn
near Catterick in North Yorkshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Colburn
Name Distribution of Colburn Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Colburn families
 22 - 42  8 - 21 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Colburn families
|
15 - 27 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Colburn census records
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Colburn Family Origin
Colburn Emigration Information (US)
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Colburn Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Colburn
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