Darby Family History
Darby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of Derby, the county
seat of Derbyshire, but also from the much smaller place called West
Derby in Lancashire. Both are named from Old Norse djúr
‘deer’ + býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’. The usual spelling of the
surname represents the pronunciation of both the place name and the
surname.Irish: adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó
Diarmada (or Mac Diarmada) ‘descendant (or ‘son’) of
Diarmaid’, a personal name meaning ‘freeman’. See also
Dermott, Macdermott. Insofar as Gaelic Ó
Duibhdhiormaigh was sometimes reinterpreted as Ó
Diarmada, Darby could also be an Anglicization of this name
too. The English surname is also established in Ireland, having been
taken to County Leix in the 16th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Darby
Name Distribution of Darby Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Darby families
 445 - 888  149 - 444 |
 1 - 148  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Darby families
|
17 - 31 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Darby census records
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Darby Family Origin
Darby Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Darby Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Darby Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Darby census records
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Military Service by Darby
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