Corby Family History
Corby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places in
northern England. Those in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire are named
with the Old Norse personal name Kori (see Cory) + Old
Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’, whereas the one in Cumbria
has as its first element the Old Irish personal name Corc.French: from a diminutive of corb ‘crow’.Irish:
variant of Corboy.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Corby
Name Distribution of Corby Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Corby families
 92 - 182  31 - 91 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Corby families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Corby census records
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Corby Family Origin
Corby Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Corby Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Corby census records
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Military Service by Corby
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