When John Colby was born on 27 December 1675, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Colby, was 19 and his mother, Sarah Eldridge, was 25. He married Mary Frame on 2 December 1702, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 3 February 1717, in his hometown, at the age of 41, and was buried in Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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English (eastern): habitational name from Colby in Norfolk and Westmorland, Coleby in Lincolnshire, or Coulby Newham in the North Yorkshire. The Colby placename derives from the Old Norse personal name Koli (a byname for a swarthy person, from kol ‘(char)coal’) + Old Norse býr ‘settlement’.
Americanized form of Norwegian Kolby .
Americanized form of German Kolbe . Compare Kolby .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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