10485760. Sir Roger de WASHBOURNE
The name Washburn originated at the time of the Norman conquest as deWashbourne. Bourne is from the Old English burna meaning a spring orstream. Washbourne specifically means a place where the fuller scouredand cleaned thick wool cloth (Fullers stream). 2 The founder of thefamily in England was of Norman ancestry and was allegedly knighted onthe field of battle at Hastings by William the Conqueror. The familywas endowed by William with lands and the Manor of Little and GreatWashbourne in the counties of Gloucester and Worcester, England. Thefamily took its name from these two estates.