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Cobb or Cobbs
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.
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| 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.
You can begin your search with the Cobbs of Kent or start with
the Ambrose "the Emigrant".
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