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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant of Silsby.
  • Henry Silsbee (1613–1700), a prominent and prosperous English sea captain, is mentioned as being in Salem, MA, in 1639. Four generations later, there were still Silsbee descendants in Salem who were noted merchants, seamen, and politicians.

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