Researching Percy Nobbs
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The name Percy means "Form of PERCIVAL. Piercing the Valley" and is of French origin.
Records of Percy Nobbs on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Percy Nobbs and the Nobbs Family Tree
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Some Famous People called Percy Nobbs
Percy Erskine Nobbs
Percy Erskine Nobbs (August 11, 1875 – November 5, 1964) was a Canadian architect who was born in Haddington, East Lothian, and trained in the United Kingdom. Educated at the Edinburgh Collegiate School and Edinburgh University, he spent most of his career in the Montreal area. Often working in partnership with George Taylor Hyde, Nobbs designed a great many of what would become Montreal's heritage buildings and was a key Canadian proponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement in architecture. He served as the director of McGill University's School of Architecture for ten years and designed many buildings on the campus as well as McGill's Coat of Arms, which continues to be used today.
Source: Percy Erskine Nobbs, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Nobbs
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
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