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Firby is a Toponym and Family Name found throughout the Anglosphere . Common variants are Furby, Furbee, Ferby and Furbay.


UNITED KINGDOM

"Firby" is from the '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 Ship s 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 , Firby Wood, Firby Beck Fields, Coldwell Plantation , Jeffery Bog Plantation and St. Mary 's Vicar House. There is a Firby hamlet likely from this origin in Fawkham parish, West Kent , 8½ miles SE. of Dartford .


UNITED STATES

The Darby-Firby Neighborhood Corporation is in Yorktown, Virginia . Firby Road was founded by those associated with Sir William Berkeley . 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 .


CANADA

The township of 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 due to Fort Vancouver .

There are two Newfoundland Outport s 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 .


AUSTRALIA

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


EXTERNAL LINKS

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  • GenUKi page covering Firby (Ryedale)

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