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Surname Etymology and Meaning of APPLEBY

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(origin: Local) A town in Westmoreland, England, called Aballaba by the Romans, from which the name is derived. By signifies a town,--the apple-town.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

Northern English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Cumbria, named from Old English æppel ‘apple’ or Old Norse epli + Old Norse býr ‘farm’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)