Harby Genealogy and Harby Family History Information

The surname Harby (Harbie) was an anglicization adopted by Isaac Harbie when he settled in England sometime around the 1730s. He had fled Fez, Morocco, where he was lapidary to the sultan. Jacob R. Marcus speculates in the Jewish Encylopedia that the original Sephardic name was Arbib. I believe the name may well have been Ben Haroubi (aka Ben Harubi) or Haroubi (aka Harubi). See the NAF Search Engine at Sephardicgen.com, which cites Toledano and Laredo (#546 and #547). There was a rabbi Yitzhak Haroubi in Morocco. Another Sepharic surname was Harab. Posted by William A. Marjenhoff