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coble Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Middle English cobel ‘rowboat’, presumably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such or possibly as a nickname for a sailor.
  2. Americanized spelling of German Kobel.

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Distribution of coble Families in the US in 1840
Number of coble families
 33-63
 12-32
 1-11
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1840 US Federal Census records

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