Cobb or Cobbs
"sanguine vita"
Down through the ages our surname has had numerous variations in spelling. My grandfather told me one story that his grandfather decided there were more than one Cobb so the name should have an "s" added to make it plural.
We will follow Mike Cobb's format:
- The early British born generations are spelled COBBES.
- The early American born generations are spelled COBBS.
- The modern international spelling is COBB unless otherwise noted, as several branches of the family, including ours, still spell the name COBBS.
We want to recognize the efforts of Mike Cobbs and all the File Managers of the
Cobb and Cobbs site,
without whose effort very little would be known about our family and its history. Mike connected with Alexander Robert Cobb, the grandson of Robert Stanley Cobb,
who provided his grandfather's genealogical work on the Cobb history in Britain. We have borrowed much from these works to make our files here for you to use.
We strongly recommend that you visit
Cobb and Cobbs to see the whole story.
The first Cobb from County Kent, England, to be recorded in the College of Heralds was the man known to genealogists as John Cobb of Kent (c1324).
His American descendants are all from the line of Ambrose Cobb, who arrived in Virginia, in 1635. Researchers have been trying for generations to identify John’s father.
Although the most likely answer has been known for almost a decade, a challenge has been presented within the last two years. On the one hand is the claim that John’s father was one Walter Cobbe.
On the other hand we have a claim that John’s father was a man named Henry Cobb.
Read more about The Hoax.
We have the work done by
Robert Stanley Cobbs, MC, FRIBA, who in the 1950's began to research the Cobbs in Kent, England.
He published this work for his family, not intending it to be a source document for others but, it is a great reference for those descended from Ambrose Cobbs here in the United States.
Early Origins of the Cobbs family
Migration to America
Early Notables of the Cobbs family
Maps
You can begin your search with the
Cobbs of Kent or start with the
Ambrose "the Emigrant".
Contents
Introduction/Acknowledgement
Preface
Maps
Contents
Chapter I The Newchurch Cobbes
Chapter II The Aldington Family
Chapter III The Chilham Cobbes
Chapter IV The Reculver Cobbes
Chapter V The New Romney Cobbes
Apendix I (Not yet online when access was lost.)
Index (Not yet online when access was lost.)
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