Re: [COLBY] The Colby families
by Matthew D. Colby, DC, LCP, DPhCS
Kate,
There are some Colby's that came here from Norway. They changed their name
from Colbyson to Colby. they settled in the Madison Wisconsin area.
Matt Colby
----- Original Message -----
From: "KATE" <kate7(a)comcast.net>
To: <colby(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: [COLBY] The Colby families
> Gordon -
>
> Thanks for saying we are all related, I can not find anything on my Colby
> Line.
> Sometimes I feel like an orphan Colby Child!
>
> Katie Colby
> Middletown New Jersey
>
> -- -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Gordon Crooks" <glcrooks(a)bcpl.net>
>> Up till now I have held my peace and thinking on the subject. It is my
>> opinion
>> that the Colby's of Hobling and Beccles are one and the same family abet
>> maybe
>> separated by a generation or two. In my research of other families
>> related to me
>> I have found this to be true. I am sure that All five Crooks families
>> living
>> Antrim, N. Ireland in 1660 were related and many of them came to
>> Pennsylvania in
>> the early 1700's and then in my Moorehead line we recently found a 1850's
>> burial
>> in Antrim which establishes for us the link of the Pennsylvania
>> Moorhead's with
>> the Ireland one and thence back to Scotland and all the way back to
>> Denmark
>> (Vikings).of is the family crest on the tombstones. Coincidence I think
>> not.
>> Remember first sons inherited, second and later sons were provided for in
>> the
>> wills and for the most part went off on their own. This also happened
>> here in
>> the early generations and was the custom of the day. So lts get over it
>> all the
>> Colby's are related and go back to the or!
>> iginal one whoever he was.
>>
>> Gordon Crooks
>>
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