The Origins of Ferrabee

The family of Ferrabee, or Veriby in the vernacular spellings of the day, were from at least the 17th century, broadweavers from the Owlpen and Uley area near Stroud and Dursley in Gloucestershire, according research completed in the early 1950s by H.B. Randall, a relative by marriage to a descendant of John Ferrabee of Thrupp. Several members of the family were probably blacksmiths and millwrights.