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dobbs Name Meaning and History

English: patronymic meaning ‘son of Robert’, common in central England (see Dobb).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dobbs Families in the US in 1920
Number of dobbs families
 123-243
 42-122		 1-41
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Dobbs book silverbear33 0
Fanny Dobbs of Manchester, Lancashire, England gclements42 0
Dobbs of Georgia Suzanne Deetch 31
Dobbs Book and Family Page StanleyWDobbs 46
MARY ANN DOBBS Diane Jordan Jones 4
Dobbs Family History jeffrey thomas 33
Scott W Dobbs 1849-1910 lhughes55 0
Dobbs DNA Project stanbevers 1
Elizabeth Kelly Dobbs, 87, daughter of, George Kelly and Martha Kelly KENNELLYMARKA 0
Dobbs Family Book PEGGYSUE <O'Shields> GADDIS 21
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