Nutbourne Family History
Nutbourne Surname Meaning
from Nutbourn in Billingshurst (Sussex) which is recorded as Nutburn in 1296 or Nutbourne in Westbourne (also Sussex) recorded as Notburn in 1277.
Both place-names derive from Old English hnutu ‘nut nut-tree’ + burna ‘stream’.
There may have been some confusion with Nutbrown.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
