Walby Family History
- Walby Name Meaning
- English: habitational name for someone from a place in East Yorkshire called Wauldby (recorded in Domesday Book as Walbi ‘(village) on the wold’) or from Walby in Cumbria (‘(village) by the (Roman) wall’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 36,093 Historical Documents with Walby on Ancestry
- 13,297 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 10,230 Census and Voter Lists
- 727 Military Records
- 758 Immigration Records
- 11,081 Member Trees
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Number of Walby families
 34 - 65  12 - 33 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Walby 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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