Where did the Sanborns come from?

[Phoenix]

This may all be a huge coincidence, but best mate has great tranches of DNA matches with Sanborn ancestors, who all go back to ROCKINGHAM County in New England.

I have found this book:

Genealogy of the family of Samborne or Sanborn in England and America, 1194-1898 / by V. C. Sanborn.

Author Sanborn, V. C. (Victor Channing), 1867-1921.

Published:Boston : Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1969.

Descriptionxiii, 692 p., [65] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.

NoteReprint of the 1899 ed. published by the author in Concord, N.H.

NoteIncludes index.

NoteThe New Hampshire way of life (1800-1860), by F. B. Sanborn: p. 613-628.

Short of reading it, can anyone suggest how I can find where the Sanborns originated?

[kiterunner]

According to the first issue of "Sanborn Signatures", from 1984 (link to PDF below), three brothers, John, William, and Stephen, settled in Hampton, NH, in 1638, after arriving in Massachusetts in 1632:
http://www.sanbornfamilyassociation.com/images/Vol1%20No1.pdf
I haven't finished reading it yet, so maybe it will say where they came from at some point.

[kiterunner]

Okay, it says their grandfather, the Rev Stephen Bachiler, went with them. That might help.

[kiterunner]

And there is a letter quoted from the vicar of Timsbury, Somerset, which says that the Sanborne family lived at Timsbury House and that there was (probably still is) a Sanborne family stained glass window in the church there. But is it really the same Sanborne family? Apparently V C Sanborn said it was.

Apparently Ann, the daughter of the Rev Stephen Bachiler, married a Mr Sanborn (and they became the parents of John, William and Stephen), but the researchers hadn't been able to find out his first name when the newsletter was published. But maybe someone has found it since then?

[kiterunner]

Oh dear, there are 2,333 public trees on ancestry matching my search for Ann* Bach*l* marrying a Sa*born*, so not much chance of spotting whether any of them has proof of Mr Sanborn's first name rather than just guessing it was John or William (or both.)

[kiterunner]

The Rev Stephen Bachiler has a Wikipedia page which says that he was vicar of Wherwell, Hampshire, until 1605, but doesn't say where after that. And as it says he married his first wife around 1590, Ann's marriage would have been after Wherwell.

[kiterunner]

There are quite a few Samborne and similar PCC wills on ancestry which you could look through to see if they mention Ann, John, William and Stephen - try Sa*bo*rn* for the surname. I'll leave them to you as the old ones will be in Latin!

[Phoenix]

Somerset, eh? Not a single line in that county as yet.

I was hoping a nice neat hint to a place I recognised, but I guess it's going to be more complicated than that.

I don't know about you, but American ancestry seems so boring once you've found the link to the "came over on the Mayflower" families.

[Phoenix]

Ooh the one line I'm having problems with is Masons from Kings SOMBORNE in Hants.

I wonder if the Sanborns came from Somborne deep in the distant past?

I'll just park that idea for the moment. It's not far from Wherwell.

[Phoenix]

Looking at the clergy database, it looks as if Stephen were chucked out of Wherwell, and turned up in Oxford as a deacon in 1613.