Colburn Family History
- Colburn Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from a place named with Old English col ‘cool’ + burna ‘stream’, as for example Colburn near Catterick in North Yorkshire.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 421,455 Historical Documents with Colburn on Ancestry
- 110,762 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 61,536 Census and Voter Lists
- 14,335 Military Records
- 4,676 Immigration Records
- 230,146 Member Trees
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Number of Colburn families
 22 - 42  8 - 21 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Colburn families
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15 - 27 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Colburn census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Colburn census records
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