Ogilbee meaning | Last name Ogilbee origin

The Ogilbee is the variant of Ogleby. See Ogle - The extinct peerage family (from whom springs the existing baronet), rose to eminence in the twelfth century, and derived their surname from the lordship of Oggil, county of Northumberland; but Ogle appears also to be an Anglo-Saxon or Danish personal name, as it occurs, in composition with topographical expressions, in several family names, as Ogilvie, Ogilwy, Ogilby, and Oglesby, the residence of Ogle; Oglethorpe, the village of Ogle, etc.

Form of Ogilby. See Ogle - The extinct peerage family (from whom springs the existing baronet), rose to eminence in the twelfth century, and derived their surname from the lordship of Oggil, county of Northumberland; but Ogle appears also to be an Anglo-Saxon or Danish personal name, as it occurs, in composition with topographical expressions, in several family names, as Ogilvie, Ogilwy, Ogilby, and Oglesby, the residence of Ogle; Oglethorpe, the village of Ogle, etc.

Ogilbee is form of Ogilvie. One who came from the barony of Ogilive meaning "high hill," situated in the parish of Glamis, in Angus.

The family name Ogilbee is the form of Ogilvie. O'gille buidh, descendant of the yellow-haired boy.

Ogilbee is variation of the Ogilvie. Of that Ilk, in Angus. Nisbet says— "These of this family are to be found witnesses in the charters of the Alexanders II and III, and were very eminent in the reign of Robert the Bruce; that King gave to Patrick Ogilvie of that Ilk the lands of Caithness, which had belonged to Malcolm de Caithness."