Wilby Family History
Wilby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places called Wilby, in
Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire. The first is probably named
from an Old English wilig ‘willow’ + Old English beag
‘circle’; the second has the same first element + Old Norse
býr ‘farmstead’ or Old English beag, and the last
is named with the Old English or Old Scandinavian personal name
Villi + býr.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Wilby
Name Distribution of Wilby Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wilby families
 475 - 948  159 - 474 |
 1 - 158  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wilby families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wilby census records
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Wilby Family Origin
Wilby Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Wilby Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Wilby Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Wilby census records
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Military Service by Wilby
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