The ancient
Anglo-Saxon surname Jacobe came from the baptismal name
Jacob. The surname Jacobe referred to the
son of Jacob which belongs to the category of
patronymic surnames. In Old English, patronyms were formed by adding a variety of suffixes to personal names, which changed over time and from place to place. For example, after the
Norman Conquest,
sunu and
sune, which meant
son, were the most common patronymic suffixes. In the 12th and 13th centuries, the most common patronymic names included the word
filius, which meant
son. By the 14th century, the suffix
son had replaced these earlier versions. Surnames that were formed with
filius or
son were more common in the north of
England and it was here that the number of individuals without surnames was greatest at this time.
Early Origins of the Jacobe family
The surname Jacobe was first found in
Dorset where they held a
family seat from very ancient times, some say well before the
Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.
Early History of the Jacobe family
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Jacobe 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 Jacobe family name include Jacobs, Jacob and others.
Early Notables of the Jacobe family (pre 1700)
Distinguished members of the family include General Sir George Jacob of Kent; Sir John Jacob, 1st
Baronet (c.1597-1666), an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and 1641; George Jacobs, Sr. (c.1620-1692), accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in 1692, and was...
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Migration of the Jacobe family to Ireland
Some of the Jacobe family moved to
Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. More information about their life in
Ireland is included in all our
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Migration of the Jacobe family to the New World and Oceana
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 Jacobe surname or a spelling variation of the name include:
Jacobe Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
- Hance Jacobe, aged 28, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1736 [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
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) - Stafen Jacobe, aged 23, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1736 [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
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)
Contemporary Notables of the name Jacobe (post 1700)
- Augustin Jean-Baptiste Jacobé de Trigny, French Brigadier General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1789 to 1815 [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1789-1815. (Retrieved 2015, March 13) Augustin Jacobé. Retrieved from http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/c_frenchgenerals.html