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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BOURNE

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(origin: Local) From the town of Bourne, in Lincolnshire, England, which is so named from the old English Bourne, a small river or spring-well.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).