When Mary Kibbe was born on 16 April 1640, in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Edward Kibbe III, was 28 and her mother, Mary Partridge, was 22. She married Ezekiel Morrell about 1663, in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 10 November 1735, in Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Old Burying Ground, Stoneham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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English: according to Reaney this is a nickname from an unattested Old English word cybbe meaning ‘clumsy’ or ‘thickset’. Reaney's speculation is apparently based on taking the Middle English word kibble ‘cudgel’ as a diminutive of an unattested Old English word. Corresponding personal names have been postulated for the placenames Kibworth (‘enclosure of a man called Cybba’) and Kibblesworth (‘enclosure of a man called Cybbel’); so, in theory, the surname could be a reflex of these Old English personal names.
North German: nickname for a cantankerous person, from Middle Low German, Middle High German kiven ‘to quarrel’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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