Corber History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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France

Early Origins of the Corber family

The surname Corber was first found in Savoy (French: Savoie) in the Rhône-Alpes region of the French Alps, where they held a family seat from the 12th century. One of the earliest records of the name was Gilles de Corbeil (ca. 1140-?), a French royal physician, teacher, and poet. Peter of Corbeil (died 1222), was a preacher and canon of Nôtre Dame de Paris, a scholastic philosopher and master of theology at the University of Paris, ca 1189.

William of Corbeil, Curbuil or Corbeuil (d. 1136), was Archbishop of Canterbury, "was doubtless born at the little town of Corbeil, on the Seine, halfway between Paris and Melun, unless indeed the unimportant village, Corbeil-le-Cerf, some distance south of Beauvais, has a better claim to this distinction. " 1

Early History of the Corber family

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Corber Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Corbeil, Corbeile, Corbeille, Corbeill, Corbeile, Corbeyle, Corbail, Corbaille, Corbaille, Corbaill, Corbayle, Gorbeil, Gorbeile, Gorbeille, Gorbeill, Gorbeile, Gorbeyle, Gorbail, Gorbaile, Gorbaille, Gorbaill and many more.

Early Notables of the Corber family

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Corber migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Corber Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Nicklas Corber, aged 22, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1732 2

Citations +

Smith, George (ed), Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1885-1900. Print
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)