Chat | Daily Search | My GenForum | Community Standards | Terms of Service Jump to Forum Home: Surnames: Ibbitson Family Genealogy Forum Re: Ibbitsons of Canada Posted by: Marty Lund Date: February 29, 2000 at 00:20:55 In Reply to: Re: Ibbitsons of Canada by Norma Garvin of 53 There is a connection no doubt but who knows how far back. The Ibbitsons of Nova Scotia have been traced back to the towns of Helmsley and Hawnby Yorkshire in the 1600s. The records of those days use several variations of the spelling including Ibbotson, but there were Ibbitsons/Ibbotsons elsewhere in Yorkshire too. By the time the families settled in Canada they had also settled on the spelling; there seems to be no connection here between the Ontario Ibbotsons and NS Ibbitsons (although some NS Ibbitsons moved to Ontario to confuse matters). The name is of Danish origin, dating back to the viking days abt 1000 AD - we probably connect somewhere in there! Followups: Re: Ibbitsons of Canada Jeanne 4/19/00 Re: Ibbitsons of Canada Marty Lund 4/19/00 Re: Ibbitsons of Canada Anne Lee 5/26/02 Re: Ibbitsons of Canada Marty Lund 9/02/02 Re: Ibbitsons of Canada Kathryn Robertson 8/31/02 Re: Ibbitsons of Canada Marty Lund 9/02/02 Re: Ibbitsons of Canada Kathryn Robertson 9/03/02 Re: Ibbitsons of Canada David Ibbitson 10/13/05 http://genforum.genealogy.com/ibbitson/messages/3.html Search this forum: Find all of the words Find any of the words Search all of GenForum: Proximity matching Agreement of Use Link to GenForum Add Forum

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