Saxby Family History
Saxby Name Meaning
habitational name from places in Leicestershire and
Lincolnshire called Saxby, from the Old Norse personal name
Saxi meaning ‘sword’, or the genitive of the Old English
folk name Seaxe, Old Norse Saksar ‘Saxons’ + Old Norse
býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.nickname for someone quick to
take offense and draw his sword, from Middle English sakespey,
Old French sacquespee, from Old French sacque(r) ‘to
draw or extract’ (from sac ‘sack’) + espee ‘sword’
(Latin spatha).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Saxby
Name Distribution of Saxby Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Saxby families
 168 - 334  57 - 167 |
 1 - 56  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Saxby families
|
4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Saxby census records
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Saxby Family Origin
Saxby Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Saxby Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Saxby census records
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Military Service by Saxby
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