Category: Beebe Name Study
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This study focuses on the surname Beebe, but because my Beebe family also traces its lines back to the spelling "Bebe", that name is also included in this study. This study was created on May 20, 2015.
Other Variations of the Name Beebe
There are many variations of the name Beebe, however, the only lines this family have used so, far are: Primarily Beebe, Bebe and Beeby. So far, the only way another variation [Beebee] of the name has been used is as a Secondary name that came up in documents occasionally, were their actual Last Name at Birth was Beebe. Just, want to let anyone who views this know that my LNAB is Beebe. However, my name has shown up in documents and has at times been missplaced into other files because, someone misspelled my LNAB. This has happened to me under all three of these names and a few others as well. Have had my medical records lost numerous times because, of this very mishap. One of the largest files lost was my medical records but it was lost permanently. It caused quit a stir because, doctor's at the time needed one document from the file that was permanently lost to determine just what the doctor's had done during one of the surgery's I had. Because, of that incident the problem I was having has to this day never been resolved. I sincerely, hope this never happens to you.
Please check out the Beebe Name Study Homepage for more information.
About
This is a One Name Study for any descendant who has either taken the yDNA test or who would like to collect and share information that would be helpful in further exploring our Beebe heritage.
It is my hope that other researchers like yourself will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect and may have orginated from the same name. Please, contact the project leader, Alison Andrus if you have any questions or would like to get involved.
Ongoing Track Record
At the time of this Beebe One Name Study on May 20, 2015 there have been 1,486 profiles created for the name Beebe. As far as this date there have been only 9 profiles created for the name Bebe, and 98 profiles have been created for the name Beeby. For those of you that just want to know there are currently, 25 Beebee's. Just thought it would be interesting to keep a track record for these Beebe variations. So, we can check back later at any given time and see just how much these family lines have grown.
Status Update
It has been a year and three months later since I first started the Beebe One Name Study. It is currently August 10, 2016. I just finished adding the Beebe's from my Watchlist and the open profiles from the Beebe Genealogy from here on WikiTree. I am sure I accidentally missed adding some of the names. If, I missed adding one of your profiles please, fill free to add it to this list and any new names you add profiles for. The Beebe One Name Study is a work in progress and is intended to be for everyone. According to the various Beebe Name Variations on their respective pages the Beebe profiles have been dwindling down instead of growing this past year, except for one of the Name Variations. The current number of names have changed as follows: There are currently 1,412 Beebe's listed which is down 74 names from last year. There are currently 4 Bebe's listed which is down 5 names from last year. There are currently 76 Beeby's listed which is down 22 names from last year. Only the Beebee's have increased this year 51 names are listed which is up from last year by 26 names. I for one find these numbers alarming as I thought we were not suppose to be able to remove profiles from WikiTree. The numbers indicate 101 names have been removed from WikiTree since last year. This is only one group of family names that have been removed. How many other family names have been removed from WikiTree alarms me even more?
Status Update
It has been almost 2 years since this study was last updated. Many variations of the name of Beebe have been added and many more profiles have been added. Below find a list of all the Variations of the Beebe name with the amount of profiles on WikiTree following: Beebe (2,990}, Babb (1,140), Bobo (711, Bibb (620), Bybee (587), Bieber (529), Bibby (411), Bibeau (255), Bobb (175), Bebee (157), Beeby (148), Bebb (80), Beebee (72), Baby (60), Babe (51), and Bebeau (39). Entered July 28, 2018 By Barbara Jean (Beebe) Duren.
Origin of the Beebe Name
Before the 1900's few people were able to read, write, or even spell their own name. Therefore, it was left to the person registering an event to write what he believed was the correct spelling of the name. Usually that meant they tried to spell it like it was pronounced to him. This is why there are so many variations within the same family group, and even at the same time and for the same person. These are some of the more widely used variations that follow: Beebe, Bebe, Beeby, Beebee, beby, Beebey, Bebee, Beebie, Bibi, Baby
The spelling Beebe has been used consistently in my family as far back as I have been able to trace it. The first to use the name was Samuel Beebe who was born in 1470. His son Thomas Beebe was born in 1535. These two men are a prime example of how many different ways one person can have their name show up in so many ways. Thomas Beebe had his name show up in one document three different ways. The same man had his name show up in another document four different ways.
Another example of the variations that have been used can be seen in the Broughton parish records of John Beebe/Beebis/Beeboe/Beebee/Beebie/Baybye and finally Beeby: This is quite an impressive list for just one person.
However, the spelling Beeby is perhaps the most typical in England {View the table- "Beebe name variants 1881 census"} at:
The following information has been edited from the original notes written by Clarence Beebe of Connecticut, USA and part of the text was gotten from an article found on Compuserve.
The ultra-enthusiast might be pleased to know the name apparently appears in records of remote antiquity, as seen in the memorandum that follows:
"One of the kings of the Second Dynasty in Egypt, dated something like 3000 BC, was Bebi whose hieroglyphic is given the table Sakkarah, a monument discovered by M. Mariette in Egypt. The table represents a priest named Tounars rendering homage in the name of Rameses II to a series of 58 kings belonging to the first six dynasties."
In "Book 21" of "The History of Rome", by Livy, it is related how one Quintus Baebius, a man of advanced years, was sent as a ambassador to Hannibal and to the Carthaginian Senate to demand peace or war. This is dated, "Year of Rome 534".
Then in later times, there is a tradition of French origin which is plausible. Ancient family papers, said to be in archives of Aston Hall, Warwickshire, England show this family descended from the Norman Knights - Richard and William de Beebe - who were of the Royal Guard of William the Conqueror. They passed over to England at the time of the conquest and were "by the King granted manors in Warwickshire", where the family lived up to the close of the Commonwealth.
During his visit to England in 1893, Clarence Beebe from the USA took and copied a portion of the ancient Norman Rolls that are kept in the Tower of London which dates from the reign of King John. There he found "Willelmus Babbe Pracpositus, AD 104 who with four other jurors, adjudged the values of property".
One of the earliest authenic records of the family name found by Clarence Beebe is in Bridge's History of Northamptonshire, England, printed in 1740 under the heading "Town of Brackley, Sutton Hundred", occurs the folowing: "Here was formerly an Infirmary or Hospital for the sick, dedicated to St. Leonard, from 1297 to 1417, it was governed by masters, one of which was Joh Beby, February 10, 1403". At East Farndon, Joh Beby was incumbent of the curch of St. John the Baptist, sometime between the years 1398 and 1411. At Castre is a church dedicated to St Kyneburga. Within the porch of this church, around the moulding of the south door, is cut in wood, this inscription: "Ricardus Beby, Rector Ecclesie DeCastre, Fecit Fieri".
To those interested in knowing about one branch of the family that has the right and title to a Coat of Arms, here is a description found in Burkes Encyclopedia of Heraldry:
- A blue shield with gold Chevron and three gold bees.
- Crest: A golden Beehive indicative of industry,
- vigilance and persistency of purpose.
- Motto: So Defendendo.
- Arms: Dilley (Willey) Court, England.
The founder of this family was a Non-Conformist Chaplain to the regiment of Colonel Knight in (Geo.) Monk's (i.e. Duke of Albermarle) army, about 1640.
The name Beebe may have had its origins in two Norman Knights, who originally spelled the name "de Boebe". The de was eventually dropped after coming to England, the name being Anglicised to its present spelling Beebe.
From the learned researchers of John Thorpe, an old authoritative chronicler and Herald of Duddeston, Warwickshire, there is a clear account of the relation and history of this family "from their ancient home in the Valle de Saive, Normandy, France, to 1669 in Warwick County, England, from where John, Nathaniel, and Eli Beebe emigrated to the colonial province of York". Ancient family papers in the archives of Aston Hall shows that this family descended from the Norman Knights Richard and Guilliaume de Boebe, who where of the Royal guard of William the Conqueror. They journeyed over to England at the time of the conquest and were "by the King granted manors at Bordesley in the county of Warwick", where the family lived from the time of the Norman Conquest up to the close of the Commonwealth.
"During the Parliamentary Wars, John Beebe of Duddeston Hall, County of Warwick, with two sons, having ardently stood by the poplar cause against the tyranny of the Royal Stuarts fighting first under Essex and Hampden, subsequently with desperate resolution through all of Cromwell's campaigns, were at the restoration of the monarchy, exposed to persecution by the court officials. They were summoned by the King's Governor of Warwick to take an oath of allegiance to this regime, but such being a military court they denounced it's right, defiantly refusing to be bound by any oath commanded by an unlawfully constituted perity of Beebe Family and others who had fought for contumacy in money and estate, three cadets of the family with John Beebe and the yeomen, Richard Rathbone, Thomas Clifton and Henry Clinton at once emigrated to the province of York and settled upon estates within the royal demense. Subsequent to the settlement within the royal province of York another branch settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts. They held correspondence with the noble and liberal lord Stanley and Henry Fairfax of Durham, two noblemen who felt a deep interest in the welfare and prosperity of the Beebe family and others who had fought for constitutional freedom during the great struggle of the Parliamentary wars".
These letters and the manuscript of the Beebe family, colonial and home, were preserved by William Watt Esq. lord of the manor of Aston in the archives of Aston Hall, Warwickshire.
The motto of the family, granted by King Henry V, to Sir John Beebe for distinguished gallantry at the siege of Harfleur, and presented by the King upon a Gold Shield, is in Norman French:
The American Connection
- The church registers of St. Andrews (in the village of Broughton, Northamptonshire, England) date from 1560 and varify the names of John Beebe1 and his children who emigrated to America in the year of 1650, as stated in his will. This will is on file in Hartford, Connecticut. They were puritans and known in England as husbandsmen, or yeomen. It can be probably said, that nine out of the families named Beebe in America descend from the three sons of this John1, to wit, John2, Samuel4, and James9.
They landed in Boston Harbour and worked their way westward, they were influential in the settlement of New London, Connecticut. From there the family branched out in all directions.
Individuals of this family were prominent in the "King Philips War, especially John2, who with his men marched through the wilderness and relieved the soldiers of Major Talcott on the Connecticut River.
The Family of Samuel4, became large land owners and inter-married with well-to-do families. The name is found among the "Minute Men of '76", and in the Armies of the Revolutionary war as officers and enlisted men. Special services under General Washington were rendered by a descendant of John2.
The pension rolls of the Revolutionary war contain a number of Beebe family names. Bezaleel Beebe was especially prominent in that war and James a descendant of James2, became a member of the Order of the Cincinnati.
In 1775, a descendant of John2 called Martin, prepared with others a memorial to Congress recommending the passage of a Declaration of Independence. The name is variously spelled in the same document Beebe, Beby, Beeby, and Beebee.
John Beebe, who immigrated to America Colonies in 1650, died on the SS Speedwell and left a will in which mention is made of his children, and of the fact that he came from Broughton, Northamptonshire, England. Clarence Beebe, the author of much of this text, "had the pleasure of visiting this quaint old English village in 1893, and varified from church records the names of John, his wife's Christian name Rebecca, and those of his children, as well as the dates of their birth."
Kettering is the principal town of the district in which Broughton is situated. Kettering is the town were Samuel1 and his family were born and raised in. In Kettering the name of Beebe is still a familiar name. The village of Broughton, is about 7 miles from Kettering. It is a large, straggling, old fashion village. It is situated partly in hollows and partly on elevated knolls. There were probably not more than two or three of its hundred houses which were not thickly covered with thatch. The church of St. Andrew, and ancient buildings, was naturally the most prominent to the view, situated in the centre of the village, and surrounded by trees. Approaching the church, the roadway is embowered by the trees on either side. The church combines the early decorated Norman and Perpendicular styles. It includes chancel, nave, aisles, and north and south porches. There is a tower clock and a chime of five bells.
The church was rebuilt in 1828, and fully restored in 1854. It contains a beautifully carved stone font of the perpendicular period of (1600). The carving was the gift of the Duke of Buccleuch.
Broughton Church Registers date from 1560. The surrounding church-yard is replete with moss-grown memorials of the past. The Registers are kept securely in an iron box in the crypt of the church. They are in a bad state of preservation and are crumbling with age.
Abstracts of wills from the Archdeaconary Court at Northampton indicate that the Beebe's mentioned were not conspicuous people, but were styled "yeomen, labourers and shoemakers".
Little Addington in Northamptonshire, England, furnishes its quota of Beebe's. The Register of its church commence about 1588 and an early record is the marriage of Henry Bebe with Millicent Rands, on May 13th 1641.
Meaning of the Name Beebe
Sources
- Descendants of Thomas Bebe/Beeby - 1535 by Nancy E McKinley Page 1 of 106
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