When Colby was born on 4 November 1869, in Allegan, Allegan, Michigan, United States, her father, George Lewis Colby, was 26 and her mother, Emily M. Griffin, was 27.
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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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