Chubbuck History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England

The ancient Anglo-Saxon surname Chubbuck came from Jubb, a diminutive of the Christian name Job. 1 While this is the most recognized origin of the name, two sources claim the name was Saxon or Anglo-Saxon having derived from the "cob, a great-headed, full-cheeked fellow" 2 or from the Anglo-Saxon "personal name Ceob(b)a." 3

Early Origins of the Chubbuck family

The surname Chubbuck was first found in Somerset where Kirby's Quest listed: Adam Chubbe; Alicia Chubbe; Robert Chobbe; and Alicia Chobbe, all having been there 1 Edward III (during the first year of the reign of King Edward III.) 4

Early History of the Chubbuck family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Chubbuck research. Another 59 words (4 lines of text) covering the years 1180, 1200, 1273, 1465, 1505, 1679, 1688, 1694, 1696, 1698 and 1747 are included under the topic Early Chubbuck History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Chubbuck Spelling Variations

Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Chubbuck family name include Chubb, Chubbe, Chub, Chube, Choubb, Choub, Choube, Chubbs, Chubs, Chubbes and many more.

Early Notables of the Chubbuck family

Notables of this surname at this time include: Thomas Chubb (1679-1747), an English lay Deist writer, born at East Harnham, Salisbury, on 29 Sept. 1679. "His father, a maltster, died in 1688, leaving a widow with four children, of whom Thomas was the youngest. He was taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, and in 1694 apprenticed to a Salisbury glover. " 5William Chubbes (d. 1505), was "Master of Jesus College, Cambridge (whose name is given in the 'History of Framlingham'...
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Chubbuck migration to the United States +

For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, the Canadas, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Chubbuck surname or a spelling variation of the name include:

Chubbuck Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Thomas Chubbuck, who arrived in Hingham, Massachusetts in 1634 6

Chubbuck Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

A, Chubbuck Jr., who arrived in San Francisco, California in 1850 6

Chubbuck migration to Canada +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Chubbuck Settlers in Canada in the 19th Century

Job Chubbuck, who landed in Canada in 1841

Citations +

Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
Arthur, William , An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. London: 1857. Print
Harrison, Henry, Surnames of the United Kingdom: A Concise Etymological Dictionary Baltimore: Geneological Publishing Company, 2013. Print
Dickinson, F.H., Kirby's Quest for Somerset of 16th of Edward the 3rd London: Harrison and Sons, Printers in Ordinary to Her Majesty, St, Martin's Lane, 1889. Print.
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)