Cosby Family History
Cosby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Leicestershire named
Cosby, from an Old English personal name Cossa + Old Norse
býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Cosby Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cosby families
 23 - 44  8 - 22 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cosby families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cosby census records
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Cosby Family Origin
Cosby Emigration Information (US)
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Cosby Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cosby census records
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