When Mary Colburn was born on 6 January 1837, in Norwich, Windsor, Vermont, United States, her father, Zerah Colburn, was 32 and her mother, Mary Cory Hoyt, was 32. She died on 14 December 1837, at the age of 0, and was buried in Norwich, Windsor, Vermont, United States.
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habitational name usually from Colburn in Catterick (North Yorkshire), named from Old English cōl ‘cool’ or col ‘coal’+ burna ‘stream’ (often confused with Old Norse brunnr ‘spring, stream’), but sometimes perhaps from a minor place so named, such as Coalburn in South Wingfield (Derbyshire) or Coldbourne in Bramley (Surrey).
from the Middle English personal name Colborn, an Anglicized form of Old Norse Kolbiǫrn, Kolbiorn, from kol ‘coal’ + biǫrn ‘bear’.
variant of Colbran, from the Middle English personal name Colbrand (Old Norse Kolbrandr, Kolbrand, from kol ‘coal’ + brandr ‘sword-blade, firebrand’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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