The woodburn Surname
woodburn Name Meaning and History
Scottish: habitational name from places named Woodburn in Ayrshire,
Kincardineshire, and Midlothian, and in Northumberland, all named from
Old English wudu ‘wood’ + burna ‘stream’, i.e. a stream
flowing through a wood.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Threads: 73 - Messages: 212
| Thread | Author | Replies |
| Census for 1841 at Ochiltree |
 dorothycooper37
| 6 |
| Alexander Woodburn - 1802 | Tom Jenkins | 9 |
| James George Woodburn |
jeanettems
| 11 |
| Agnes Woodburn, b.1787 in St Quivox, Ayrshire, Scotland |
Alstons196
| 0 |
| mary jane woodburn |
bevmissie
| 0 |
| WOODBURNS in 1810 Wshington Co Pa Census |
edbickham
| 2 |
| Re: Robert Woodburrn and wife Margaret Wasson/Wason of Antrim |
debrobbins55
| 7 |
| Woodburn's of Guernsey County, Ohio | Georganna Hutchins | 4 |
| the name | Rodney L. Woodburn | 2 |
| Thomas Woodburn, Lanarkshire | Gail McCracken | 3 |
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