Carbis One-Name Study

Carbis
One-Name Study

Topics

About the Carbis One-Name Study
Variants
Origin of the surname
Historical occurrences
Links
Contact Details

About the Carbis One-Name Study

The formation of the CARBIS One Name Society was founded with the following aims:

1. Maintaining an association of all Carbis and other related person, who may have an interest in the

history, origins and development of the various and individual branches of the various Carbis families.

2. Combing with all of that is the promotion of the conservation of documents, photographs and all

other related materials and monuments of Carbis name significance.

3. To further the study of Carbis surnmae history and its origins.

Variants

1. CARBONS; CARBOMS; CARBOUS and CARBOUSE; found in the Subsidies of 1522; Military Survey of

1522; the tinners Rolls of 1523

2. CARBES; CARBOUSE AND KARBUS; found in the Cornwall Muster of 1569

3. CARBENS; CARBOES; CARBUS; CARBUSH; CARBYNE and CARBYNS; found in the Protestation Returns

of 1641

4. CARBENS; CARBES; CARBINES; CARBOUSE and CARBYNS; found in the Hearth Tax of 1662

These are bt a few of the possible forty something variants of the base name of CARBIS

Origin of the surname

1. CARBIS in the original Cornish may have been 'Car-pons' which is considered to have meant a 'Cart-

bridge' Handbook of cornish surnames by G. Pawley White.

2. CARBIS from it's far older Cornish name of 'Car-bons' may also generally be understood to

mean 'Camp on a bridge' or a 'Paved causeway'. These forms may well have been borrowed from the

Latin during the roman occuopation c.55BC-410AD

3. As a Breton place name, it may be applied to 'Places far from streams'; so that the Middle Breton

equivalent c.1465 AD of this word is 'street'

Historical occurrences

The story of the CARBIS names as far as the records to date are concerned strts around 1303 in Looe, Cornmwall; then progress to the middle of the fouteenth century wirth Richard and Johan Carbis family of St.Minver, Cornwall. It is then found in an early Will of a certain Benedict Carbis of the parish of Phillack, Cornwall dated 22 July 1601

From a study of the various locations taken from the early Wills, it may be seen that the CARBIS people in the fouteenth and fifteenth centuries appeared to have been settled in three main areas of Cornwall; in Helston, Phillack and mevagissey. It was only the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries did trhe family name speread into St,.Just, St.Ives and into the Redruth areas; with either tin and/or copper mining; and fishing being the primary occupation of those families that migrated around Cornwall

Links

<www.carbis.demon.co.uk>

Contact details

For further information, contact:

In Pensioner 347 John C Carbis
13 - 4,
Royal Hospital Chelsea,
Royal Hospital Road,
Chelsea,
London
SW3 4SR
UNITED KINGDOM
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