The corby Surname
corby Name Meaning and History
- English: habitational name from any of various places in northern England. Those in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire are named with the Old Norse personal name Kori (see Cory) + Old Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’, whereas the one in Cumbria has as its first element the Old Irish personal name Corc.
- French: from a diminutive of corb ‘crow’.
- Irish: variant of Corboy.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Thread | Author | Replies |
| LAURA CORBY, b. 1899, QUORN, LEICS., ENGLAND | Angela | 2 |
| Corbys from Texas | William A. Corby | 14 |
| Corby's from Chucky, TN |
 JJCorby4
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| Carrie L. Corby married Charles Wesley Faitoute in Union County, New Jersey ~1872 |
Bob_MacAvoy
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| William Thomas Corby (c.1813 - 1891) |
Adam Liu
| 15 |
| Osa/Oza/Oga Corby born abt 1873 TN |
mtbikernate
| 1 |
| Harvey Corby NJ --> PA | Charles H. Harrison | 5 |
| CORBY James/William - Tipperary -->Australia |
DPBuchanan
| 6 |
| CORBY/KIRBY | Christine Scott | 17 |
| Willis T or Willie E. Corby |
c_hetzer
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