2007-12-23 03:36:56 · 17 answers · asked by . 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
maybe..."bourne" can be shared by another religeon.
2007-12-23 03:40:28 · answer #1 · answered by Kimberly 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is almost certain the name derives from English ancestry. A bourne is a small river or brook and many place names have it as a suffix. I grew up near a place called Weybourne which had a small tributary from the River Wey running through it. Another local area (These are in Surrey), was called simply The Bourne. I was christened at the church there!
2007-12-23 11:46:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Regardless of her name, chances are really good that we ALL, as Americans, have some British ancestry. A HUGE number of those who migrated here in the 1600's and 1700's were from Europe, especially England. You may or may not have to go back far in your family tree to find the British connection, but I would stake my life on it being there, whether it is through your great-grandmother that you are referencing in your question, or one of your other great-grandparents.
2007-12-23 14:27:09 · answer #3 · answered by Annabelle 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe. Maybe not. The only way to find out is to trace it. Her grandfather could have been an African-American who took his name from his former owners, for instance, or a Chinese orphan adopted by a missionary couple who re-named him. She could have been Swedish, stolen in Stockholm by gypsies and raised by a kindly couple in Shropshire who bought her for 12 pieces of gold.
You might be 1/8th British or 1/64th, depending on how many generations ago the Bourne men came to Georgia / Oklahoma and started marrying Cherokee ladies.
2007-12-23 21:13:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some British ancestry? Yeah.
2007-12-23 11:41:14 · answer #5 · answered by perfectlybaked 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The origin of a name is NOT guaranteed to be the same as the ancestry or heritage of a PERSON. That is simply an assumption.
Unless you actually research a person, you have no way to be sure of their heritage. For all you know.. her grandfather may have been an orphan named Kadiddlehopper, who wound up being adopted by the family down the road.
And, please.. don't be taken in by companies like houseofnames. They are well documented by reputable genealogy experts to be unreliable.
2007-12-23 13:12:29 · answer #6 · answered by wendy c 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
All it takes is one adoption or one out-of-wedlock closet birth to alter ancestry. That's why genealogists place so much importance into following chains of primary evidence, such as civil and church birth, death, baptism and land transaction records.
The "Bourne" name's affiliation with England gives you a good starting point to search for records.
Happy hunting.
2007-12-23 16:54:37 · answer #7 · answered by Boomer Wisdom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might have british ancestry, but people can change their names so there is a probablity that she was not british. You'd have to do some research to find out for sure.
2007-12-23 11:45:51 · answer #8 · answered by I <3 the Joker 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What Robert C says is correct it sounds defiantly English, It may also derive from the Ancient Anglo Saxon name Beorn meaning bear.
2007-12-23 11:50:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Bourne is an old English word meaning river or brook. It is a certainty that your grandmother was English or of English desent. No other country would use this name.
2007-12-23 11:42:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
You don't say where you are from, or living now.
I'm in the UK and I worked with someone called Bourne - as far as she knew, her husband's family were Brits for several generations; her brother emigrated to Oz.
2007-12-23 14:19:01 · answer #11 · answered by Veronica Alicia 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋