Selby Family History
Selby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, so
named from Old Norse selja ‘willow’ + býr ‘farm’,
‘settlement’. The surname is now very common in
Nottinghamshire.Americanized form of some like-sounding Jewish
surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Selby
Name Distribution of Selby Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Selby families
 86 - 169  29 - 85 |
 1 - 28  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Selby families
|
256 - 509 86 - 255 |
1 - 85 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Selby families
|
13 - 24 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Selby Family Origin
Selby Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Selby
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Selby Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Selby census records
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