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The colburn Surname

colburn Name Meaning and History

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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Distribution of colburn Families in the US in 1920

Number of colburn families

102-202

35-101

1-34

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Thread	Author	Replies
Reason A. Colburn	Avery	9
COLBURN, Vernon R.( 1887) & Anna M.(1890) in ID	mttreehugger	0
COLBURN Willie R and Carrie B	t42MountOlivet	0
grand mother	mdragonfly50	0
R. James & Lydia Cobb, Colburn.	kinzielee	0
COLBURN Leon G Jr 1929-	t42RoseHill	0
COLBURN Sallie Loyal 1899-1996	t42RoseHill	0
COLBURN Caroline Roberta 1927-1941	t42RoseHill	0
Looking for information on Charles Colburn	succulentdragonfly	0
Mrs. Creighton COLBURN of West Dedham, Massachusetts in 1877	JimMiller599	0

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