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Early Origins and Etymology of Munby

The surname Munby was first found in Lincolnshire at Mumby, a village in the union of Spilsby, Marsh division of the hundred of Calceworth, today in the East Lindsey district. 1 2 3 The villages of Mumby and Chapel-Mumby are three miles from each other. The villages date back to the Domesday Book where they were listed as Mundebi 4 which possibly meant "farmstead or village of a man called Mundi", derived from an Old Scandinavian personal name + by. 5

At that time, Mumby was held by Eudo from Count Alan, and was part of the Mumby Hundred comprising over 200 acres. Hagworthingham Mumby was part of the same hundred and comprised over 310 acres.

Early rolls included entries for Alam de Munby in the Pipe Rolls of 1162; Beatrice de Mumby, 1241-1245; RegAntiquiss de Mumby in the Feet of Fines for Lincolnshire in 1245; and John Munby in London in 1340. 6

The Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 had two entries for the family, both found in Lincolnshire: Alicia de Mumby; and Heres de Munby. 3 The Testa de Nevill, sive Liber Feodorum, temp. Henry III-Edward I. included Alan de Mumby, Lincolnshire, Henry III- Edward I., and Beatrice de Mumby, Lincolnshire. 7

Early History of the Munby family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Munby research. Another 63 words (4 lines of text) covering the years 1162, 1245, 1340, 1813, 1844, 1860, 1862 and 1876 are included under the topic Early Munby History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Munby Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Mumby, Munby, Mumbie, Mumbee, Momby, Mombie and others.

Early Notables of the Munby family

  • Giles Munby (1813-1876), English botanist, born at York in 1813, the youngest son of Joseph Munby, solicitor and under-sheriff of the county, but lost both his parents when still very young. Entering...
  • and, secondly, in 1862, Eliza M. A. Buckeridge, who survived him. Munby was a skilful vegetable anatomist, as well as a most industrious collector and an acute discriminator of living plants. 8

Migration of the Munby family

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: the name represented in many forms and recorded from the mid 17th century in the great migration from Europe. Migrants settled in the eastern seaboard from Newfoundland, to Maine, to Virginia, the Carolinas, and to the islands..
  1. Lower, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
  2. Barber, Henry, British Family Names London: Elliot Stock, 62 Paternoster Row, 1894. Print.
  3. Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
  4. Williams, Dr Ann. And G.H. Martin, Eds., Domesday Book A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-141-00523-8)
  5. Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)
  6. Reaney, P.H and R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-415-05737-X)
  7. Testa de Nevill or "Liber Feodorum" or "Book of Fees," thought to have been written by Ralph de Nevill, for King John (1199–1216)
  8. Smith, George (ed), Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1885-1900. Print

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