BOURNE

(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.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

BOURN. BOURNE. Parishes and places in COS. Canrbr., Durham, Lincoln, Hants, Sussex, &c. Many trivial localities are so called, and Atte Burne is a common medieAal surname. vVs a topographical terra it means sometimes a bound or limit, (Fr. home,') and sometimes a running stream, (A- Sax. hirna.) See Eng. Surn. i. 64.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.