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Origin / History of the Boarham Name

An English locational surname, said to have originated from either a place called Boreham in the county of Essex, or from the town of Boreham Wood in Hertfordshire, or perhaps Boreham Street in the county of Sussex.  The place name in all cases derives from the Olde English pre-7^th Century word 'bor', meaning elevated, and used in the transferred sense of a height or hill, plus '-ham', an enclosure or homestead.  Hence the ‘homestead on the hill'. Locational surnames are usually 'from' names.  The earliest records are: a Harvey de Borham in 1272, in the Hundred Rolls of Essex; and in 1273: a Thomas de Borham, Hundred Rolls of Suffolk; and a Hernet de Boreham in the Hundred Rolls of Northampton.  Other recordings include: John Boram, the rector of Newton in the county of Norfolk in 1398; whilst several centuries later, in 1745, the marriage of Samuel Boreham and Mary Phillips was recorded at St. James Clerkenwell, London.  Variations of the name have been found recorded as: Boarham; Borham; Borhunt; and Borhont.

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