Firby

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Firby is a toponym and family name found throughout the Anglosphere. Common variants are Furby, Furbee, Ferby and Furbay.

1 United Kingdom
2 United States
3 Canada
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United Kingdom

"Firby" is from the Old Norwegian personal name Friði + býr 'farm', 'settlement' and was in the ownership of the Breton Conqueror Alan the Earl of Richmond. The Anglo-Norman spelling was Fritheby, as there was a taxpayer by the name of Thomas de Fritheby (in Firby), during the reign of King Edward III of England. The worth of Firby at the time of Domesday Book's compilation was 13 shillings, while its worth was 10 shillings before the Norman Conquest when Edwin, Earl of Mercia was lord of the same parts. Firby is a Liberty of Richmondshire and within the bounds of East Hang wapentake in the North Riding of Yorkshire, also within Crakehall ward of Hambleton district. The parish town of Bedale's beck is adjacent to the north. Some names of places within Firby include: Firby Hall, Firby (Christ's) Hospital (almshouse), John Clapham House, Firby Grange (likely former glebe of Jervaulx Abbey), Low Ash Bank and High Ash Bank, Mile House Farm and Manley Farm. The people founded Firby Road at Gallowfield's Trading Estate in Richmond, North Yorkshire. They also went to Firby Close in Stockton-on-Tees and Firby Close in Hartlepool. Two S.S. Firby ships were built in Stockton-on-Tees, within what was known as Cleveland, England. One of those ships was a casualty of a Nazi-Germany U-boat under commander Herman Schultz, while the second ship was scrapped in the latter half of that century. The same originating town gave the founding population of Firby Lane at Ripon in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Bill Firby was recently Labour Party_(UK) Councillor for Deerness Valley in County Durham.

Another and less important township of Firby is west of Westow town parish, Buckrose wapentake, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Today, this place is administered within Ryedale. The Yorkshire footpath, Centenary Way, passes through from south to north in the pasture. The North Eastern Railway (UK) parallels the River Derwent, Yorkshire along the north. Huttons Ambo (named after the township northeast of here) Angling Club is hosted at the hall. Some names of places within Firby include: Firby Hall, Firby Wood, Firby Beck Fields, Coldwell Plantation, Jeffery Bog Plantation and St. Mary's Vicar House.

There is Firby.-- hamlet, Fawkham par., West Kent, 8½ miles SE. of Dartford.

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United States

The Darby-Firby Neighborhood Corporation is in Yorktown, Virginia. Firby Road was founded by landed gentry, Anglo-Catholic Cavaliers of Firby Hall in Richmondshire who came with Sir William Berkeley in 1642. Furbee School and Furbee Cemetery in Marion County, West Virginia; Furbee Ridge and Furbee Run in Wetzel County, West Virginia; Furbay Cemetery in Harrison County, Ohio were all once part of York Co. These folks speculated with the Ohio Company.

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Canada

Bayham in Elgin County, Ontario has Firby Cemetery and the family came with Thomas Talbot (Upper Canada). Captain William Firby commanded the Landsdowne on the Great Lakes border. There is a Furby House Books in Port Hope, Ontario. Furby Street Community Garden is in Winnipeg, Manitoba upon Red River Colony. Firby Court is in Coquitlam, British Columbia because of Fort Vancouver's economy.

There are two Newfoundland outports on the Grand Banks, called Furby's Cove in Hermitage and Furby's Harbour in Burgeo. They have probably been there since the Georgian era.

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