Firby

Firby is the name of two separate hamlets in the county of North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber region, England, United Kingdom. They are former townships with greater independence from their neighbours, but have since been enveloped by the Industrial Revolution's urbanisation, and outward emigration for new jobs occurred, downsizing their local importance.

Firby, East Riding of Yorkshire

The Danish builders developed this land at the time of foundation for the Kingdom of Jórvik in the Danelaw, circa 876 CE. "Firby" is from the Old Danish personal name Frithi + Old Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’. Frithi is like the given name Fródi, which means Frith.

This hamlet and former township of Firby is west of Westow town parish, Buckrose wapentake, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Today, it is located within Ryedale district. The Yorkshire footpath, Centenary Way, passes through from south to north in the pasture. York & Scarborough North-Eastern Railway parallels the River Derwent, Yorkshire along the northern border. Huttons Ambo(named after the township northeast of here) Angling Club is hosted at the hall. Some of the descendents from this place sought work in the London area before moving to Furby's Cove in Hermitage, Newfoundland, and also Furby's Harbour in Burgeo, Newfoundland.

• Firby Hall - The lord of the manor's home.
• Firby Wood - The woodland found in the neighbourhood.
• Firby Beck Fields - Firby Beck is the source of Old Stell Beck and a private fishing ground of the manor. The grass fields themselves, are for animal husbandry.
• Coldwell Plantation - Site of a water well where turnip, wheat, oats, and barley have been grown.
• Jeffery Bog Plantation - Site of iron ore.
• St. Mary's vicar house - This is from the 1800s, in which the vicar's office was removed from Westow to here. The profits from local farming go to the Church of England in return for their ministry.

Firby, North Riding of Yorkshire

Apparently an offshoot of the eastern settlement.

Firby Road at Gallowfield's Trading Estate in Richmond, North Yorkshire was the initiation of family from the North Firby during the early 1600s CE to gain financial foothold at Firby Road in Yorktown, Virginia in the foundation of that colonial settlement(presently part of the private Darby-Firby Neighborhood Corporation). The family in Bayham, Upper Canada, to the west of York, Upper Canada, buried their dead in what became known as Firby Cemetery. The next generation of family split up and one half stayed to later build Furby House Books in Port Hope, Ontario, taking up interest in stamp collecting in Detroit and robotics in Chicago, but the other half relocated to Winnipeg, Manitoba in the late 1800s to settle the misspelt Furby Street(site of communal Furby Street Community Garden). It was not long before somebody figured life would be much easier in British controlled Coquitlam in Vancouver, British Columbia instead. There, was founded Firby Court. Firby Lane at Ripon in the West Riding of Yorkshire, is a most recent road name, perhaps some relatively short time before the two in Stockton-on-Tees.

The descendants from the North Firby left a memory of two S.S. Firby ships which were built in Stockton-on-Tees. One of those ships was a casualty of a Nazi-Germany U-boat under commander Herman Schultz. The residence of the builders was Firby Close within said town during the first half of the 1900s. They later moved to Firby Close in Hartlepool when the decision to scrap the second ship was made in the latter half of that century. This area was formerly on the North Riding's northeastern border with the River Tees and the North Sea. The members of this half of the clan present the greatest number of this surname bearers in England today; mostly oriented along the River Tees.

Formerly a Liberty of Richmondshire within the bounds of East Hang wapentake in the North Riding of Yorkshire, it is now within Crakehall ward of Hambleton district. The parish town of Bedale is adjacent to its north.

• Firby Hall - as stated above. Was inherited by the Hammond family through marriage with Firby.
• Firby (Christ's) Hospital - One section, called John Clapham House, is for self-accommodation. Oak planks from the hospital can now be found at John Smith's The King's Head tavern in Bedale to the north. A small beck is located adjacently.
• Firby Grange - hamlet of Firby.
• Ash Bank - Low Ash Bank Farm and ash grove on High Ash Bank. Bedale Beck is a few miles to the north.
• Mile House Farm
• Manley Farm

Links

• http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ERY/Westow
• http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Bedale
• http://www.ancestry.com/search/SurnamePage.aspx?sourcecode=13304&html=b&fn=&ln=furby&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
• http://members.ispwest.com/ronsmith/furby/fur_intro.htm
• http://www.elginogs.ca/cemeteries/bayham/firby.htm
• http://www.firbyauctions.com/
• http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~firby/
• http://www.ruralroutes.com/1066.html
• http://www.scmetcalfe.btinternet.co.uk/pages/2prince.htm
• http://uboat.net/men/schultze.htm
• http://www.westbroadway.mb.ca/s12.html
• http://www.yorkcounty.gov/comser/housing/specialprojects.html
• http://www.riponcity.info/community/disability.php#firby
• http://www.7parkstreet.co.uk/pract5.htm
• http://www.durham.gov.uk/durhamcc/etech/dccmembers.nsf/vWebMemAll/firby,+bill
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• http://www.yhld.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Regexec.htm