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According to page 17 of “New Dictionary of American Family Names,” by Elsdon C. Smith (published 1973), the surname BAGBY is (Eng.) "One who came from Bagby (Baggi's homestead), in the North Riding of Yorkshire."

Similarly in “The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names,” by Eilert Ekwall (4th edition, 1960), p. 22. He says the personal name Bag(h)ebi appears in Domesday Book, compiled in A.D. 1086.

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