Cobb Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Cobb Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Cobb

The ancient history of the name Cobb was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. include Cobbe, Cobson, Copson and Cobelot. This is a baptismal name meaning 'the son of Jacob', a name of great antiquity. This name is usually of English descent and is found in many ancient manuscripts in that country. Examples of such are a Richard Cobbe of County Cambridgeshire and a Robert Cobbe of County Oxfordshire who were both recorded in the 'Hundred Rolls', England , in 1273. Names were recorded in these documents to make it easier for their overlords to collect taxes and to keep records of the population at any given time. When the overlords acquired land by either force or gifts from their rulers, they created charters of ownership for themselves and their vassals. In Ireland this name and its variants were introduced into Ulster Province by settlers from England and Scotland , especially during the seventeenth century. Since that time the name has become associated with Leinster Province and particularly with Counties Laoise, Offaly and Kildare.