Origin
of the Kosbab Name
The Kosbab
surname originated in
Germany
around the early 1800's. The majority of towns associated with the
surname Kosbab are in an area known as Hinter Pommern, a type of state or
county (area) east of the Oder River. Today this area is part of
Poland (re-indexed 1945) and unfortunately, records are scarce.
We have no
record of the Kosbab name before 1814. There does not seem to be an
obvious answer as to what it might have been derived from or from
where. Research has shown that the name is unique in its spelling with
only three main groups... KOSBAB(216),
KOSBAU(68),
KOSSBAB(2).
It is
more than probable that both KOSBAU and KOSSBAB are spelling mistakes, and
should be Kosbab.
Emigration
We know that
Kosbab's started emigrating from Germany around the 1850's. The
majority emigrated to the
United
States of America. We have information that some went to Canada
but we have no evidence of this. One family emigrated to England
around 1877. One source suggests that Kosbab's came from Hungary.
Any other
associations and country references can be found in our world section.
The
rest of the information originally stored in this section has now been
transferred to the Family Tree and the Archive.
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