Släkthistoria för Farnaby
Farnaby Vad efternamn betyder
perhaps from Farmanby in Thornton Dale (NR Yorks) which is recorded as Farmanebi Farmanby in the 12th century Faremanby in 1231 and Farmanbie alias Farnanbie in 1614 (TNA ). The place-name derives from the Old Scandinavian personal name Farmann (which occurs in Middle English as Fareman) + Old Scandinavian bý ‘farmstead settlement’.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
