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bourne Name Meaning and History

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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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the bourne family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of bourne Families in the US in 1920
Number of bourne families
 61-119
 21-60		 1-20
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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