Cobbett Family History
- Cobbett Name Meaning
- English: from a Middle English personal name, either a reduced pet form of Jacob or the older personal name Cutebald, Cubald, a survival of Old English Cu{dh}beald, composed of the elements cu{dh} ‘famous’, ‘well-known’ + beald ‘bold’, ‘brave’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 77,518 Historical Documents with Cobbett on Ancestry
- 22,239 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 28,318 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,936 Military Records
- 1,897 Immigration Records
- 23,128 Member Trees
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Number of Cobbett families
 98 - 194  33 - 97 |
 1 - 32  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cobbett census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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