Firby

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Firby is a toponym and family name found throughout the Anglosphere. Common variants are Furby, Furbee, Ferby and Furbay. There are several coats of arms associated with this name.

1 United Kingdom
2 Canada
3 Australia
4 United States
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[edit] United Kingdom

"Firby" in the Yorkshire Dales and Diocese of Ripon (also in the Diocese of Middlesbrough) is from the Old Norse personal name Friði + býr 'farm', 'settlement'. Middle English spelling (distorted respelling is Gallo) was Fritheby/Frithby, as there was a taxpayer by the name of Thomas de Fritheby in residence, during the reign of King Edward III of England. Its first landowning record was in the ownership of Alain Le Roux from the House of Rennes and the Earl of Richmond, before being inherited by the Fitzalan/Fitzbrian family. Firby would be inherited in the manor of Bedale by the Stapletons of Bedale, who invited their Scargill relatives to also take up residence [1]. The worth of Firby at the time of Domesday Book's compilation was 13 shillings, whilst its worth was 10 shillings before the Harrying of the North when Edwin, Earl of Mercia was landlord. Firby is a Liberty of Richmondshire. Bedale Beck is adjacent to the north. Some names of places within Firby include: Firby Hall, Firby or Christ's Hospital, John Clapham House, Firby Grange (see Jervaulx Abbey), Low Ash Bank and High Ash Bank, Mile House Farm and Manley Farm.

Firby Road at Gallowfield's Trading Estate in Richmond, North Yorkshire and Firby Lane at Ripon.

A West Kent hamlet named Firby exists in Fawkham parish, northeast of Sevenoaks (c.f. Richmond upon Thames).

Residents of the Bedale-associated Firby in the 20th century relocated to Firby Close in Stockton-on-Tees and Firby Close in Hartlepool, within what was known as Cleveland, England. Two S.S. Firby ships were built in Stockton-on-Tees. One of the 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. Their shipping association in West Hartlepool was promoted by the Ropner family[2] of Thorpe Perrow[3], which lies about a mile SW from Firby in the parish of Well. Bill Firby was recently Labour Party (UK) Councillor for Deerness Valley in County Durham.

[edit] Canada

Bayham, Ontario in Canada has a Firby Cemetery now allotted to the local Methodist congregation 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 in Coquitlam, British Columbia is due to Fort Vancouver.

[edit] Australia

Firby Street in Cloverdale, Western Australia dates back to the Swan River Colony.

[edit] United States

Darby-Firby Neighborhood Corporation is in Yorktown, Virginia. Firby Road was founded by a gentleman associated with Sir William Berkeley's tenure as governor for the Colony and Dominion of Virginia. 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 County, Virginia and may have been settled because of the Ohio Company.

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Another and less important township of Firby is west of Westow civil parish, Buckrose wapentake, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Today, this place is administered within Ryedale in the North York Moors. 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.

Census studies of the surname do not indicate that anyone bearing it had ever lived there.

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.

There is no internet source connecting these places to any other similarly named place.