Stob History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Scotland

Etymology of Stob

What does the name Stob mean?

The first element of the place-name is Old English stubb or stobb, 'a stub a tree-stump' a word which also gives Scots stobb 'stake post'. The second element is probably Old English hoh 'heel, projecting ridge of land' whence Scots heuch or heugh 'precipice crag cliff a steep hill.' 1

Early Origins of the Stob family

The surname Stob was first found in Peeblesshire, at the old barony of Stobo. Some of the first records of the family were: David de Stubhou or Stobhou, who witnessed charters by Jocelin, Bishop of Glasgow, c. 1177-1199; Adam de Stobhou, who was a juror on an inquest held at Peebles in 1262; and John Stobo, a servant to the king in 1583. 2

William Stobo was charged with tumult in Glasgow in 1606, Mathew Stobo was listed in Kittimure, parish of Stanehaven in 1630, and five more of the name were found there at that time. Major Robert Stobo, a native of Glasgow, guided the Fraser Highlanders up the Heights of Abraham at Quebec in 1759. 2

Stobo Castle is located at Stobo in the Scottish Borders, in the former county of Peeblesshire.

Early History of the Stob family

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Stob Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Stobo, Stobie, Stoba, Stobhou, Stoby and others.

Early Notables of the Stob family

James Stobie, factor to John Murray, the 4th Duke of Atholl's in the late 1700s...

Stob migration to the United States +

Stob Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Samuel Stob, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1802 3

Sources +

Hanks, Patricia and Flavia Hodges, A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Print. (ISBN 0-19-211592-8)
Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. Print. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3)
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)