Sorby Family History
- Sorby Name Meaning
- Norwegian (Sørby): habitational name from any of fifteen or more farmsteads in southeastern Norway, most of them variants of Sørbø (see Sorbo), with Old Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’ as the final element. In some cases the first element may be sør ‘south’. English: variant of Sowerby.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 29,414 Historical Documents with Sorby on Ancestry
- 10,602 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,570 Census and Voter Lists
- 636 Military Records
- 1,212 Immigration Records
- 8,394 Member Trees
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Number of Sorby families
 108 - 213  37 - 107 |
 1 - 36  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Sorby census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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