KERBY Family Members
Page added 5 August 2022.
Meaning of… (See https://www.familysearch.org/en/surname):
KERBY:
KERBY family pages done are:
m. = maiden name
KERBY:
- English: variant of Kirby.
- English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern and eastern England called Kirby or Kirkby, from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + bȳ ‘farmstead, village’.
- Irish: adopted for Ó Garmhaic ‘descendant of Cíarmhac’, a personal name meaning ‘dark son’. Compare Kerwick.
- Irish: Anglicized form of Mac Geirble ‘son of Geirble’, a personal name of uncertain origin. The name is preserved in the townland name of Carrowkeribly in County Mayo.
- Americanized form of French Corbeil or of its cognate Corbeille.
KERBY family pages done are:
- KERBY, Gertrude M. (m. THORNE, h1. THORN)
m. = maiden name