Mosby Family History
Mosby Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name, probably from Mosbrough
in South Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Moresburh,
from Old English mores, genitive singular of mor
‘marsh’, ‘fen’, ‘moor’ + burh ‘fortress’.Norwegian:
habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southern Norway,
so named from Old Norse mós (genitive case of mór
‘sandy plain’) + býr ‘farm’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Mosby Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mosby families
 105 - 207  36 - 104 |
 1 - 35  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mosby families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Mosby Family Origin
Mosby Emigration Information (US)
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Mosby Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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