GUBBY/GUBBEY GENEALOGY

THE ORIGINS OF THE NAME

In this instance, the noted scholar P.H. Reaney states that the surname Gubby and it's variants Gubbe, Gube, Gubbs and Gubb is a short form of Gubiun which can be traced to the Old French personal name Gibouin or Giboin, being ultimately derived from the Germanic personal name Gebwine, composed of the elements "geba" meaning gift and "wine" meaning friend. Thus the surname signifies "the son or descendant of Giboin or Gebwine"

This personal name was introduced into England from a place in Normandy "de Gobion" by the Normans at the time of the Conquest of 1066 and over time as it passed on from generation to generation it became to be used as an independent surname in the form of Gubbin, Gibbon and Gibbin.

Other early references include one Thomas Gubin who is recorded in the Hundred Rolls of Oxfordshire in 1279 while one Richard Gubbe is listed in Moore's, The History of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London in 1319. Records relating to bearers of the name in it's various forms in the "New World" include one Thomas Gubbs who emigrated to North Carolina as early as 1669 while in South Africa one John Gaspard Gubbins, Advicate of the Supreme Court in the Transvaal was born at Upham in Hampshire in England in 1877. He was the son of the Rev. Richard Shard Gubbins, Rector of Upham (1826 - 1884) and Ellen Etherington.

The Gubby Family Crest

The Descendants of Unknown Gubby(Updated 1/11/06)

The Gubbey Connection(Updated 16/10/04)

1st World War Casualties(Updated 23/10/04)

1st World War Survivors(New 21/10/04)

2nd World War Casualties

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