The History and Antiquities of the Name and Family of Kilbourn . PDF Download

Author: Payne Kenyon Kilbourne
Publisher: General Books
ISBN: 9781458918987
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book: je Same anb Jfamilj hi HP NT origin and history offamilia, and of family name, haa become JL an interesting study among antiquarians. Few English families are able to trace their pedigree beyond the time of William the Conqueror, in the eleventh century; and, comparatively few have any authentic records of their lineage extending more than two or three hundred years into the past. The spirit of research, which has recently been awakened in the minds of many diligent and persevering students both in Europe and America, is doing very much to obviate the remissness in this respect, of the generations that have passed from the stage. These modern investigations have clearly established the fact that many conspicuous names in Great Britain and the United States had their origin at a date long subsequent to the Conquest. There is abundant evidence that the family name of Kilburn or JGl- bowrn, is derived from the Town of Kilburn, in the north riding of Yorkshire, England. On this point the Pedigree " entered in the Visitation of London, A. D., 1634," (inserted in this volume, ) would of itself be deemed reliable proof. But there are other facts and authorities which, taken together, leave us no room to doubt . Hasted, in his History of the County of Kent, England, remarks: " It is a matter of history that the Kilburnes were originally of Kilbume in Yorkshire, whence they went into Cambridgeshire and Essex." Brayley, in his magnificent work entitled " The Beauties of England and Wales," (vol. viii, p. 1203, ) says " The family took the surname from Kilburne, in Yorkshire, where they were originally seated." This word "seated," has a peculiar significance with English historians. It does not mean simply that the family lived in the place designated, but that they enjoyed an hereditary...