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frisby Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Frisby on the Wreake or Frisby by Gaulby, or another lost Frisby in Leicestershire, all named with Old Norse Frísir ‘Frisians’ (see Fries 1) + býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of frisby Families in the US in 1920
Number of frisby families
 34-66
 12-33		 1-11
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 67 - Messages: 194
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James Frisby of White Co TN and DeSoto Co MS tgrayhyatt 1
Frisby/Prater Donna Allison 1
Frisby from KY Carol Frisby 5
frisby roseeyo2000 0
Frisby's of Morgan Co.Ky ashashlady@aol.com 10
FRISBY Sallie C GRAFTON 1860 1895 t42IOOF_DenCoTX 0
Frisby's from Arkansas mickeys_double_d 2
Alfred William Frisby kelly_lack 1
Bigelow G. Frisby DJackson66 1
Frisby/Gann bobbyandmaria 0
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