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The Czech Connection
email from a teacher in Luby, Czech Republic:
The word "luby" is very old - more than 1200 years.It
comes from the age of common Slavonic existence.It has
ment layer of wood under the bark, bast.It connects with a
Latin word "liber", which means both bast and
book, because the texts were written originaly on inner side of
bark.In our area is the word "luby" used in this meaning-the sides
of belly of string musical instruments. It
coheres with historicaly basic activity,music instruments making,of the
inhabitants of this place. But your name can have a
different older origin. It can have an Indoeuropean basis "leubh",
which gave a basis to an old czech word "luby" and latin word "libet"
or german "lieb". It connects with czech "líbit se"(like),
"líbezný" (beautiful), or "líbat" (kiss).
Yours sincerely Irena Kindlová - the teacher of SOUHN Luby
Stringed Instruments made in Luby, Czech Republic
The Irish Connection
TRACING THE IRISH: A GEOGRAPHICAL
GUIDE
email from John Luby in Scotland
Nice to hear from you, Allan. Sorry
for not replying immediately, but I don't always keep the best of health these
days.
Can't be of any huge help, I'm afraid, as I've never enquired seriously into my
own family history beyond what I heard from my folks and encountered during idle
moments on the internet. Doesn't seem to be a common name anywhere.
Although I now live in Scotland (where I'm still an 'incomer' after 33 years!) I
was born in the NE of England of Irish stock. I was in my late teens
before I even heard of anyone outside my immediate family with the same name.
My Dad's folks were Irish, and we always assumed our forebears had come across
either during the Famine, or perhaps with the Navvies during the Industrial
Revolution. I've never come across any particularly Scottish connection -
there are many Lubys in Scotland, but those few I've met all seem to be of Irish
stock. The name apparently originated as O'Luby/O'Lubaig of Ballyluby in
Tipperary (seriously!) though I've personally never met or heard of anyone
bearing the traditional form of the name. The only famous Irish Luby I've
heard of was one of the founder members of the Fenian movement - there's a Luby
Street in Dublin.
Have to say the Czech connection is news to me - though phonetically it sounds
reasonable.
And that's about the extent of my knowledge. I do have a couple of
Bookmarks that might interest you, if you don't have them already:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/luby/
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~donnaweb/coatsofarms/luby.gif
When I first started using the internet, about 7 or 8 years ago, a search like
yours brought up only half a dozen names. There seem to be hundreds now!
Quite a lot in the USA
John Luby's home page
Griffith Index for
County Tipperary
http://www.kindredkonnections.com/cgi-bin/genealogy/new/nextpedsf?1662352+000000+English+0-0+0+1
The U.S. Connection
Luby is the 13,725th most popular last name (surname) in the United States; frequency is 0.001%; percentile is 74.392 [SourceCBN]
email from recording artist Jan Luby
Hi Allan, Where are you located? My father's family was from Denver,
Colorado and there are still some Luby's there and in surrounding areas. These
are Irish Lubys (originally O'Looby, which is Gaelic for clown) and not the
Jewish Lubys (shortened from Lubinski)..I will check out the site. As you
probably know, it's not a very common name. My father was Richard Luby. His
stage name was Mel Ody. He
was one of the best jugglers this country ever saw. He worked silent except for
his own humming (melody) and when he worked with bands or orchestras. If you
know anything about juggling, he was a peer of Bobby May's. My father's cousin,
George Luby has done an extensive family tree...But I don't think he's hooked up
to cyberspace...He's in Pueblo, Co.
The Canadian Connection
North
Frederiksburg (Napanee) Cemeteries L
... Luby, Frederick T. 1896 - 1951, h/o Marie
Cecile Bondy, f/o JoAnn Luby, St. Patricks.
Luby, JoAnn, 1933 - 1930, s/o Frederick T. & Marie Cecile Luby,
St. ...
Athletic Lubys
| Pat Luby played in the old National League | Hugh
Luby and http://www.baseball-reference.com/l/lubyha01.shtml |
Who Is Sue Luby |
Artistic Lubys
Political Lubys
| City of Toronto, City Councillors - Gloria Lindsay Luby | Lindsay Luby | Thomas Clarke Luby (1821-1901) | www.glorialindsayluby.com |
Luby Recipes
Luby History
LUBY
FAMILY
Handbook
of Texas Online: LUBY, JAMES O.
Luby Song Here We Go Luby-Loo, here
we go luby lie, Here We Go Luby-Loo, all on a Saturday night (contact
webmaster if you know the rest of this song)
Luby Anthem turn on
your speakers
The German Connection
Lubish, a. Comm. Obs. exc. Hist.
Of or belonging to Lubeck, a town of northern Germany, formerly a member of the Hanseatic League.
1. In
mark Lubish
,
schilling Lubish
, denominations belonging to a money of account formerly in extensive
mercantile use in North Germany.
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email from Judi Luby
Hi Allan:
My name is Judi, and I am artist Bob Luby's wife. My apologies for not
acknowledging your mail sooner. We have looked at your site, and found it to be
quite interesting and well constructed. Thank you for including our name and
site. We have tried researching Bob's family to no avail. The original
name was Lubyjewski, and because my father-in-law was in business, and no one
could remember his name, he shortened it. Unfortunately, I have not had the time
to do extensive research as yet. Since you have included us on your site, I am
asking your permission to include your site as a link on ours. Perhaps one of
our viewers can assist you in obtaining more Luby information. I didn't see any
links back to you on any of the other artist's pages, so I thought I had better
ask permission. Please advise, and have a great day !
