Roger DeWashborne

• Name	Roger DeWashborne
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I2546	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	1 Dec 2015

  
  

  Family	Joan
  Children	1. John DeWashborne,   b. UNKNOWN
  Last Modified	1 Dec 2015
  Family ID	F794	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  WASHBURN-- The surname Washburn is identical with Washbourne and Washborn, and the family derived its name from two small villages of Washborn or Washbourne, Little Washbourne or Knight's Washbourne, in Overbury, in the southern part of Worcestershire, England, and Great Washbourne, in the same neighborhood, county Glocester. The word itself is from two Saxon words--wash, meaning the swift-moving current of a stream, and burn or bourne, a brook or small stream. The authentic history of the family begins before the adoption of surnames. Washbourne's Book of Family Crests states that the founder of the family was of Norman ancestry, was knighted on the field of battle at the time of William the Conqueror, 1066, being endowed by him with lands and the manor of Little and Great Washbourne, counties of Glocester and Worcester. That statement is not authenticated, but practically all of the knights and nobles of the time in which the known pedigree of the family begins, had a similar origin. As early as the reign of Henry II. we know that William, son of Sampson, was Lord of Little Washbourne. The armorial bearings of the family indicate descent from the houses of Zouche and Corbett. The ancient coat-of-arms: Argent on a fess between six martlets gules three quatrefoils slipped bendways of the first. Later the family at Worcester modified this slightly: Argent on a fess between six martlets gules three cinquefoils of the field. Crest: A coil of flax surmounted with a wreath argent and gules thereon flames of fire proper. Is the first known authentic ancestor of this family. He is mentioned in an Inquisition of 1259, concerning William de Stutevil, and in the Lay Subsidy Roll of 1280 he is described as of Little Comberton and of Washbourne, as well as of Stanford. Stanford was on the other side of Worcestershire from Washbourne, about twenty-five miles in direct line. He was living in 1299.