Does anyone know where the surname ROBB originates from .?

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Does anyone know where the surname ROBB originates from .?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Robb
This name, with variant spellings Robe and Rabb(e), is one of the diminutive form of the male given name Robert, itself coming from the
old German, Hrodebert, a compound of the elements "hrod", renown and "berht" bright and famous. The name is occasionally found in
England before the Conquest of 1066, but in the main it was the Norman's who introduced it to England. Rodbertus, Rotbert and Robert
(without surname) are recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 and one, Robe Coccus is mentioned in the 1196 Pipe Rolls of Wiltshire.
Early recordings of the surname include Richard Robe, (Sussex, 1178), and Richard Robbe, (Somerset, 1212). Robb, and its variant
forms, is also widespread in Scotland. One, Jok Robb, voter in Monkland, was noted in "a Rental Book of the Diocese of Glasgow" in
1519. Ellinn Robb, aged 27 yrs an early emigrant to the New World, settle in the Barbados in December 1635. The first recorded spelling
of the family name is shown to be that of
Richard Robbe, which was dated
1177, in the "Pipe Rolls of Sussex", during the reign of
King Henry 11, known as "The Builder of Churches", 1154 - 1189.