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Author: fredcolbourne
Surnames: Colbourne Colburn
Classification: queries
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I think that's where my sister got stuck. (She's the genealogist in our family.) I can tell you about some of Thomas's descendants and speculate about some of his remote ancestors.
One of Thomas's descendents or possibly a nephew or grand-nephew went to Twillingate in Newfoundland around 1820. A Colbourne in the next generation or so found some copper on the surface, which led to an investor from Britain starting up a copper mine. Colbournes were mine captains for a long time until the big copper mines in other parts of the world put the Twillingate mine out of business.
Some Colbournes remain in Newfie and others have spread to other provinces of Canada and the USA. Several are professors and medical doctors or both. I myself work as an economist/financial analyst in international development.
My grandfather (Francis born around 1875) was a mine captain in Twillingate/Tilt Cove and later moved to Queenston Ontario and then to Toronto where he was a Baptist minister. My father Clarence (b.1910) was in the Canadian Army in Europe where he was killed in 1945. To my knowledge, the youngest son Ladd, an Anglican minister, still lives in California, age around 94. One daughter lives in Toronto, age about 96.
I saw a report of DNA for a Colburn, probably related in the male line to Colbourne. His Y-chromosome indicates he belongs to haplogroup i1a (small letter "i", numeral one) signifying a recent (within 1500 years or so) origin in southern Sweden/Norway. Some Swedes fought on the side of the Cornish people agaist the Danes long before the Norman invasion, other Swedes came over with William the Conqueror, along with other Scandinavians, but there is no way of knowing which lot the Colburn/Colbournes descend from. To confirm this speculation, some male named Colbourne ought to get his DNA tested.
(URL: https://www.23andme.com/)
Of course, by now most of the genes on other chromosomes are completely mixed with people from all over Europe and elsewhere. For example, I'm almost certain that my mother's grandfather, Francis White, was the grandson a French Canadian man named Le Blanc, who may well have descended from Northmen. But Francis's grandmother was probably a Canadian Indian living on Howe Island near Kingston, Ontario.
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Author: joannecolbourn
Surnames: Colbourn
Classification: queries
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Hi! I am tracing my husbands ancestry. He too is a John Colbourn from Bilston/Wolverhampton area. I have only registered today so I have only got as far back as the attached census. My e-mail is joanne.colbourn(a)btinternet.com if anyone thinks they may have further information for me. I would really appreciate that.
Many Thanks,
Jo Colbourn.
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