Brief Life History of Edmund
When Edmund Cobb was born in 1699, in Bruton Parish, James City, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Ambrose Cobb, was 37 and his mother, Frances Elizabeth Pinkett, was 33. He died on 3 November 1759, in York, Virginia, British Colonial America, at the age of 60.
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English and Scottish (Angus): from the Middle English byname or personal name Cobbe, Cobba, or its Old Norse cognate Kobbi, which are probably from an element meaning ‘lump’, used to denote a large man.
Irish: shortened form of McCobb , a patronymic from the personal name Hob, an English pet form of Robert .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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