Colby Family History
Colby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from places in Norfolk and Cumbria
named Colby, from the Old Norse personal name Koli (a byname
for a swarthy person, from kol ‘(char)coal’) + Old Norse
býr ‘settlement’.Variant spelling of Norwegian
Kolby, a habitational name in Akershus, with the same etymology
as 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Colby
Name Distribution of Colby Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Colby families
 62 - 122  21 - 61 |
 1 - 20  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Colby families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Colby census records
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Colby Family Origin
Colby Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Colby Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Colby
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