Firby is from the Old English name Fredebi ( its Middle English spelling was normative Fritheby, and Frethby, since Normanised into Early Modern English as Firby, although numerous spellings ( Furby, Furbee, Ferby, Furbay, Farby, and Freeby ) have existed since Modern English, and especially through Americanisation.

Firby or Fritheby is an English toponym and family name, with its original location now registered in modern government as Firby, Hambleton.

Centred on Firby Road, its economy is or was primarily based on farmers and cowkeepers ( Swaledale ( sheep ), Shorthorn cattle, rapeseed and other root vegetables as seen on Flickr ), butchers ( Whitton and Peacock families ), gardeners, agricultural stonemasons ( Storey family ) and most distinctively, sportsmen in fox hunting ( as painted by Joseph Appleyard ).

Auduid's descendants are the Fritheby / Firby family, who were dispossessed by the Breton contingent of William the Conqueror, and nevertheless continued to live off of their own land as tenants.

Firby land owner Leonard Hammond, of the Anglican clerical family from Masham, Grewelthorpe and Marylebone in Westminster, also took up residence, and this family intermarried with the Beresford-Peirse baronets of Bedale, as well as the native Firby family, described below.

Firby Court on Firby Road in Richmond was developed for the branch of family which moved there via Kirkby Fleetham and thence Catterick, all of which happened concurrent to the Bishops ' Wars and English Civil War, with some outpouring in County Durham.

From the same Firby family, there is a Firby Lane in Ripon.

Their second son George and Isabella ( Hammond ) Firby had a son, Christopher Wood Firby, of Leeds, who emigrated with his family and the Bradford textile manufacturing company of Joseph Benn & Son, Ltd .' s Greystone Mill in North Providence, Rhode Island on the S. S. Ivernia in Nov. 1909.

The additional locations named for Firby in Durham furthermore reflect the long connection forged by the Firby family with the Palatinate, which would make the River Tees something of a fulcrum for them to pivot upon, despite flourishing elsewhere.

In about 1666-8, the Firby family left for the Province of Maryland, founded by the fellow Richmondshire Calvert family.

Firby residents would bring their produce and meats to the marketplace in Bedale, whilst those of Bedale would go hunting in Firby and also visit nearby Thorp Perrow Arboretum.

In 1926, W. C. Gray of Firby built S. S. Firby in his West Hartlepool shipyard, after which it joined the Ropner Fleet, and indeed, in association with Ropner of Thorp Perrow.

The Thorp Perrow Arboretum lies nearby, as do the villages of Burneston, Burrill, Cowling, Exelby and Firby.

Ropner of Thorpe Perrow, based at Stockton-on-Tees, had a Dorset freighter in 1947 purchased and renamed to Firby, but this second ship was scrapped in 1966 as obsolete.

lived at Firby Hall, being Justice of the Peace and Deputy-Lieutenant for the North Riding of Yorkshire.

Firby Hall is the site of a new manor house, built in the late 18th century by a veteran of the American War of Independence.

In 1939, Firby steamed under Captain Prince and Mr. James Woodruff from Tyneside en route to Churchill, Manitoba, but was sunk SW of the Faroe Islands by German submarine U-48 ( 1939 ) under commander Herbert Schultze.

During the interview it was established that Schultze had sunk another British ship, the Royal Sceptre and similarly as the Firby had arranged for the crew to be rescued by another allied ship.

William Firby was an early 21st Century Labour Party ( UK ) Councillor for Deerness Valley in County Durham.

It is not to be confused with Firby, Westow, that has separate origins and etymology, along with Fearby, North Ferriby and South Ferriby, also different in these natures ; each has had its own variants causing confusion.

Firby is and a Liberty of Richmondshire.

Firby Beck and Firby Beck Fields are part of greater Bedale Beck, tributary of the River Swale in the north.

Firby House was a medieval constabulary with a second residence on Firby Court, Firby Road at Gallowfields Trading Estate near Richmond Castle, used often for Anglo-Scottish border patrol service and answering for game and fish activities in Firby ( i. e. Firby Lodge ).

Firby Croft has four houses and a common garden plot.

The worth of Firby at the time of Domesday Book's compilation was 13 shillings, compared to its earlier worth under Auduid as 10 shillings.

Firby Court in Coquitlam, British Columbia is from that same westward movement.

The presence of Firby toponymy paralleling the outline of all three wapentake groups, with Firby near Bedale in Hang, Firby Court near Richmond in Gilling, and Firby Lane in Ripon not very far from Hallikeld, would make for a roughly even distribution of the Firby name throughout the five wapentakes of Richmondshire.

The club was founded in 1894 and has been in its current location since 1969 having previously been located at Bedale Park, and at Firby Road.

There was also a medieval man named Firby who took up holy orders at the Church of St. Mary's in Richmond.

Robert and Margaret's first son Jonathan Wood Firby was born in Barnard Castle, County Durham.

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The ancient fortress thenceforth declined and came to be known as Old Ladoga, in order to distinguish it from the new town.

In the 1040s it came into the hands of the counts of Albon ( later dauphins of the Viennois ) and thenceforth shared the fate of the Dauphiné.

In the 9th and 10th centuries many such churches adopted formal rules of governance, commonly derived from those composed by Chrodegang of Metz for Metz cathedral, and thenceforth came to be described as " collegiate "; and there were also new foundations of this type.

About 1852 he came to the United States, in the process changing his name to Fitz James and thenceforth he devoted his attention to literature.

The Spaniard then rearranged the letters from these words till it finally came out as " Orani ", which thenceforth became the official name of the town.

Enzio was thenceforth kept prisoner in Bologna, in the palace that came to bear his name.

The progress to Northern / Roses government would thenceforth pass across the border into Scotland, in 1603, due not only to the civil warring, but also because the Tudors ' own dynasty was fragile and insecure, trying to reconcile the mortal enemies who had weakened England to the point of having to bow to new pressures, rather than dictate diplomacy on English terms.

The Helian-Xia state was conquered by the Northern Wei in 428 – 431, and the Xiongnu thenceforth effectively ceased to play a major role in Chinese history, assimilating into the Xianbei and Han ethnicities.

When Saint Thomas Aquinas's feast was inserted into the Roman calendar, for celebration on the same day, the two African saints were thenceforth only commemorated.

When the party was reorganized in 1904 into the Unified Socialist party, Viviani, like fellow Socialist Aristide Briand, stayed outside, and thenceforth called himself an Independent Socialist.

The motto appears prominently placed on a sculpted ribbon unfurled with a passion cross to its left, beneath the window over the Scala Regia, in order that all monarchs and royalty thenceforth visiting the Pope, would be reminded on leaving, to follow the Cross, and thence turn right into the atrium of St. Peter's Basilica, ostensibly so inspired.

Levertin and Heidenstam published together a pamphlet attacking the Naturalist style in 1890, and even though Levertin was never to abandon his scientific and materialist view of history ( something that sets him off from other poets of his generation ), his literary energies were thenceforth channelled into poetry of a romantic, exotic and historical character.

She tells Dag to flee into the woods and to thenceforth live on carrion.

Gen. Francis B. Harrison signed into law Executive Order No. 55 officially segregating the municipality from Viga ; thenceforth she was called Panganiban, in honor of Jose Blanca Panganiban who stood as sponsor during the inauguration.

A management buy-out in 1993 brought Albion Automotive as it was thenceforth known back into Scottish ownership.