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I spent some time on this when I lived in England and the Saxon for "cudgel" seemed to be the accepted origin.
Earliest records I could find for our spelling were from ealy 1600s. A knight of some kind with this name is buried in the church at Halesworth, Suffolk, and there were some lawyers from the time of Cromwell - one was one of the regicides, but little is known about him, and his son published a lawbook that was famous for its incompetence.
Suffolk and Norfolk, where my ancestors come from, are littered with Keebles. It's not an uncommon name there, and the branches seem to have been spreading since Saxon times. Hence all the odd spellings. You also find Keable in Quebec.
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