When Clarissa Bourne was born on 20 August 1818, in Potton, Richelieu, Lower Canada, British North America, her father, Nathan Isaac Bourn, was 27 and her mother, Clarissa Pike, was 19. She married Nelson Aiken on 16 March 1836, in Richford, Franklin, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 22 May 1862, in Potton, Missisquoi, Canada East, British North America, at the age of 43, and was buried in Mansonville, Potton, Brome, Quebec, Canada.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream, from southern Middle English bourne, Old English burna, burne ‘spring, stream’, or a habitational name from a place called with this word, for example Bourn in Cambridgeshire or Bourne in Lincolnshire. In surnames the reference is often to an old stream called burna, surviving as the name of a farm. This word was replaced as the general word for a stream in southern dialects by Old English brōc (see Brook ) and came to be restricted in meaning to a stream flowing only intermittently, especially in winter.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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