Lobe History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Germany

The origin of the proud surname Lobe can be traced to the historic kingdom of Bohemia, which is now part of Czechoslovakia. German surnames developed at a time when most of Bohemia, and most of the German provinces, were states of the Holy Roman Empire. At first people used only a single name, but as the population grew and people began to travel, they began to find it necessary to take on an additional name to differentiate themselves. The distinguished surname Lobe is derived from the Middle High German "lewe," meaning "lion."

Early Origins of the Lobe family

The surname Lobe was first found in Bohemia, where the Lobe family became a prominent contributor to the development of the district from ancient times. Always prominent in social affairs, the family became an integral part of that turbulent region as it emerged to form alliances with other families within the Feudal System and the nation. One of the earliest recorded Bohemian bearers of the name was Hensel Lebel, who lived in Budweis in 1387.

Early History of the Lobe family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Lobe research. Another 312 words (22 lines of text) covering the years 1225, 1265, 1300, 1460, 1465, 1507, 1522, 1628, 1703, 1706, 1733, 1796, 1799 and 1869 are included under the topic Early Lobe History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Lobe Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Loewe, Loewen, Lowen, Lowe, Low, Lower, Löwe, Löw, Leu, Leue, Lau, Laue, Löbe, Lobe, Leb, Lebe and many more.

Early Notables of the Lobe family

During this early period, notable bearers of the name Lobe included Leon Loewe von Rozmital (around 1465), whose famous descriptions of the Holy Land through which he traveled were translated into many languages, his daughter became the Queen of Bohemia; Hans Leu, The Elder...
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Lobe migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Lobe Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Andreas Gotthard Lobe, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1768 1

Lobe Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Bernard Lobe, who arrived in San Francisco, California in 1851 1
Carl Lobe, aged 22, who landed in New York, NY in 1878 1

Lobe migration to New Zealand +

Emigration to New Zealand followed in the footsteps of the European explorers, such as Captain Cook (1769-70): first came sealers, whalers, missionaries, and traders. By 1838, the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. Early immigrants include:

Lobe Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century

Miss Charlotte Lobe, (b. 1869), aged 5, Cornish settler departing on 16th November 1874 aboard the ship "Rakaia" arriving in Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand on 7th February 1875 2
Mrs. Charlotte Lobe, (b. 1853), aged 25, Cornish settler departing on 11th October 1878 aboard the ship "Piako" arriving in Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand on 5th March 1879 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Lobe (post 1700) +

Robert Lawrance Lobe (b. 1945), American sculptor
Jim Lobe (b. 1949), American journalist and the Washington Bureau Chief of the international news agency Inter Press Service
William "Bill" Lobe (1912-1969), American Major League Baseball catcher and coach
Adolf Lobe (1860-1939), German jurist and member of the Reichstag in the Weimar Republic
Karlis Lobe (1895-1985), Latvian officer in the Imperial Russian Army, Latvian Army and the Latvian Legion, recipient of the Order of the Three Stars
Moses Lobe, Canadian founder of Lobe's, a grocery chain from Ottawa, Ontario in 1912, now part of the Metro supermarket chain
Mira Lobe (1913-1995), born Hilde Mirjam Rosenthal, an Austrian author
Isaac Lobe Straus (1871-1946), American Democratic Party politician, Member of Maryland State House of Delegates, 1902; Maryland State Attorney General, 1907-11; Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1908 3

Citations +

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)
Cornwall Online Parish Clerks. (Retrieved 2018, April 30). Emigrants to Lyttelton 1858-84 [PDF]. Retrieved from http://www.opc-cornwall.org/Resc/pdfs/new_zealand_assisted.pdf
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, December 10) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html