Thorburn Family History
Thorburn Name Meaning
Scottish: from a northern Middle English personal name, Old Norse
þórbjörn, composed of the elements þórr
(see Thor) + björn ‘bear’, ‘warrior’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Thorburn
Name Distribution of Thorburn Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Thorburn families
 62 - 121  21 - 61 |
 1 - 20  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Thorburn families
|
148 - 293 50 - 147 |
1 - 49 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Thorburn census records
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Thorburn Family Origin
Thorburn Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Thorburn Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Thorburn census records
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Military Service by Thorburn
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