Sorby Family History
Sorby Name Meaning
Norwegian (Sørby): habitational name from any of
fifteen or more farmsteads in southeastern Norway, most of them
variants of Sørbø (see Sorbo), with Old Norse
býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’ as the final element. In some cases
the first element may be sør ‘south’.English:
variant of Sowerby.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sorby
Name Distribution of Sorby Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sorby families
 10 - 17  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sorby families
|
108 - 213 37 - 107 |
1 - 36 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sorby families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sorby census records
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Sorby Family Origin
Sorby Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Sorby
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Sorby Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Sorby census records
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Sorby Civil War Service Records
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| Sorby of Denmark | | 5 | |
| Sorby ancestors | | 7 | |
| SORBY and SPAIN | | dlgoz | 0 |
| Sorby | | Deborah_Sorby | 0 |
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