When Edward Selby was born about 1772, in England, United Kingdom, his father, Samuel Silby, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth Neale, was 30. He married Dorothy Fox on 26 September 1799, in Stamford Baron St Martin, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 14 February 1847, in Easton Maudit, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 76, and was buried in Easton Maudit, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English (Nottinghamshire) and Scottish: habitational name from Selby (Yorkshire). The placename may derive from Old English sele ‘willow copse’, sometimes alternating with salh ‘willow’, + Old Norse bȳ ‘farmstead, village’.
Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.
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