Dearborn Name Study

Date: 13 Jun 2023
Surnames/tags: Dearborn Dearebarne Dearborne

About the Project

The Dearborn Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Dearborn name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Dearborn name.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Dearborn's), by time period (18th Century Dearborn's), or by topic (Dearborn DNA, Dearborn Occupations, Dearborn Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.

How to Join

To join the Dearborn Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Joel Wolski for assistance.

Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

Ongoing Projects

• Connect all unconnected Dearborns to the global family tree.

Research Pages

Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. I'll be working on them, and could use your help!

Membership

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

The Dearborn surname has no limit to the various ways it's spelled (and misspelled) in records, but there are a few variations in the way Dearborns have spelled their own name at different times in different places.

• Dearebarne The spelling used by the first "Dearborn" immigrant to America, Godfrey Dearebarne (1603-1686). These are the various spellings recorded in Lincolnshire parish records of the late 16th and early 17th centuries;
  • Dearebarn
  • Dearbarn
  • Dearbearn
  • Deerberne
  • Derebarne

None of these original variations seem to have survived to today.

• In Surrey, from the middle of the 16th century until at least the end of the 18th (based only on what Ancestry.com has indexed), the name is found spelled variously thus;
  • Darborn
  • Darbourn
  • Darborne.

• In the United States and Canada, there are a few variations that seem to have taken on permanence.
  • Dearborne
  • Dearbourn
  • Dearbon
  • Dearbornne
  • Deerborn
  • Darbourn
  • Darbourne

Published Historical & Genealogical Sources

• Bell, Charles. Facts Relating to the Early History of Chester, N.H. (G. Parker Lyon, Concord, NH, 1863), [Page 42]
• Carter, Nathan. History of Pembroke, N.H., 1730-1895 (Republican Press Association, Concord, N.H., 1895) Vol. 2, [Pages 59-67 & Page 331]
• Chase, Benjamin. History of old Chester, N.H., from 1719 to 1869 (Published by Author, Auburn, New Hampshire, 1869; 812 pages), [Pages 503-509]
  • Chase, John Carol. History of Chester, New Hampshire, Including Auburn (Derry, New Hampshire, 1926), [Page 303]
• Dearborn, E. B. Genealogy of the Dearborn Family, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, 1848) Vol. 2, [Pages 81-98 & Pages 297-305].
• Dearborn, Jeremiah Wadleigh. A History of the First Century of Parsonsfield, Maine (Brown Thurston, Portland, ME, 1888), [Pages 374-376].
• Dow, Joseph. History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire (Salem Press, Salem, MA, 1893) Vol. 2, [Pages 659-672].
  • Dow, Joseph. The Dearborns of Hampton, N.H. (Salem Press, Salem, Mass., 1893).
• Sanborn, Victor Channing, Esq. English Origin of the American Dearborns, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Jul 1906) Vol. 60, [Pages 308-310].
• Sanborn, Victor Channing, Esq. The Lincolnshire Origin of Some Exeter Settlers, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Jan 1914) Vol. 68, [Pages 68-72].
• Dearborn family Bible records, 1771-1884, FamilySearch Book: 790851 (accessed 14 July 2023)
  Identifier: 763194; Language: English; Subject: Dearborn family; Extent: on 1 microfilm reel; Page Count: 6; Owning Institution: FamilySearch Library; Publisher Digital: FamilySearch International; Access Level: Public.