Kirkby is a name that was brought to England by the ancestors of the Kirkby family when they migrated to the region after the Norman Conquest in 1066. The Kirkby family lived at Kirkby in Furness. The name Kirkby means village with a church.
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The English word China is first attested in Richard Eden's 1555 translation of a 1516 journal by Portuguese explorer Duarte Barbosa. The Portuguese word was derived from Persian ChÄ«n (ÚÛÙ) and ultimately from Sanskrit CÄ«na (à¤à¥à¤¨). The earliest known example of CÄ«na being used to refer to China dates from AD 150.