When Reuben Colby was born on 23 August 1764, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Ebenezer Colby, was 47 and his mother, Mary Catherine Chase, was 38. He died in 1790, in Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 26.
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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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