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The Mabe genealogy line, from England (1600’s) to the United States (1700’s), Virginia and North Carolina.

County Chester, and Ralph John Mabbe was documented in London in the
year 1278. John Mabbys appears in Bedfordshire in 1309.

During the Middle Ages, when people were unable to read or write signs
were needed for all visual identification. For several centuries city streets in
Britain were filled with signs of all kinds, public houses, tradesmen and even
private householders found them necessary. This was an age when there
were no numbered houses, and an address was a descriptive phrase that
made use of a convenient landmark.

At this time, coats of arms came into being, for the practical reason that men
went into battle heavily armed and were difficult to recognize. It became the
custom for them to adorn their helmets with distinctive crests, and to paint
their shields with animals and the like. Coats of arms accompanied the
development of surnames, becoming hereditary in the same way.

Later instances of the name mention Mabota Ryder of Yorkshire who was
listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. A certain William Mabbett was
listed in the Wills of Lancashire in 1644. Most of the European surnames in
countries such as England, Scotland and France were formed in the
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The process had started somewhat earlier
and had continued in some places into the 19th century, but the norm is that
in the tenth and eleventh centuries people did not have surnames, whereas by
the fifteenth century most of the population had acquired a second name.

English: spelling variations include; Mabe, Mabes, Mabbe, Mabbys,
Maib, Maibs, Maibe, Mayab, Mayabb, and others.

Dutch: from the medieval female personal name Mabe, a short form of
Mabelie, derived from a Latin personal name and saint’s name (A) mabilia.
Compare Mabbitt.

Mabe, Cornwall, England

The parish of Mabe, {pop. 1276 [2001] (Cornish: Lannvab)}, anciently
called La Vabe or Lavapper, was situated in the Deanery and Hundred of
Kerrier; it is now in the Deanery of Carnmarth South. It is bounded on the
north by St Gluvias, on the east by St Gluvias and Budock, on the south by
Constantine, and on the west by Stithians and St Gluvias. It is immediately
south-west of the town of Penryn. The Church, which is separate from the

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