When James Kilby was born in 1765, in Culpeper, Virginia, United States, his father, William Kilby Sr., was 21 and his mother, Frances Eddins, was 20. He married Margaret Robbins on 24 March 1792, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Morgan Township, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States in 1800. He died about 1817, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 53.
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English: habitational name from Kilby in Leicestershire. The placename derives from Old English cild ‘child’ (genitive plural cilda) + Old Norse bȳ ‘farmstead, village’, with change of initial Ch- to K- due to Scandinavian influence. There may have been some confusion with Kelby .
History: Christopher Kilby (1705–71), merchant and government contractor of the colonial era, was born in Boston, MA, as was his father, John. According to family tradition, his grandfather John was born in 1632 in Hertfordshire, England.
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