At 06:19 PM 10/8/99 -0400, gerri ann lockman wrote: >Could someone tell me if Feree and Ferebee are two different families >please? I think they are , just not sure. Peter Ferebee was Exec. for the >will of Abraham Hall, 1835. I see the Feree a lot but not Ferebee. Thanks,,, >Gerri Ann gal@naxs.net I would think so. I don't know where the surname "Ferebee" comes from, but it may have something to do with the 18th century popular girl's name "Ferebee" (sometimes "Pheriba"). "Feree" is probably a variant spelling of "Ferry", which shows up as a French Protestant name in 1600s France. (I don't know if it's technically Huguenot.) A minister named Paul Ferry was a friend of the prominent Catholic priest, Father Bossuet. Elizabeth Whitaker