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The earliest reference to the surname QUIBELL (or close derivative) I have found appears in the East Markham parish register in the year 1566/7 where the baptism of a James QUIBELL is recorded in 18th January 1566/7. This is shortly after the commencement date of the East Markham register in 1561. It is likely that this James was the son of Richard and Alles (Alice) QUIBELL and that he probably died before attaining the age of ten years as a baptism of a 2nd James is recorded in 1575. This much can be deduced from the East Markham QUIBELL entries that appear in the years leading up to the major plague outbreak at East Markham in 1609. [The 1609 plague was one of the defining moment's in the history of East Markham and the population was badly affected losing no fewer than 100 of the village's population of 800 including Richard QUIBELL.]
There are lots of possibilities including that this surname somehow evolved from other similarly written or sounding names such as KEEBLE\KEBLE, TWIBELL\TWIBLE\ TWIBURN, QUIBURN\QUICKFALL, etc. or that some of these names evolved from the QUIBELL group of surnames. With two of the variations TWIBELL and QUIBELL I wonder whether subtle differences in dialect could be responsible as TWIBELL seems to be predominate on the Sheffield side of Sherwood Forest and QUIBELL on the Nottinghamshire side. In some of the Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire Parish registers the surname spelling alternates variously between TWIBELL and QUIBELL. In later period's transcribers and compilers of indexes unused to the sequence of letters "QUI" have quite often interpreted the old handwriting as "TUI", "TWI" or "ZUI".
QUIBELL's/TWIBELL's in Crofton, Ecclesfield and Sheffield in Yorkshire. The parish register of Crofton contains references to several individuals for the period up to 1700 where the surname spelling is given variously as TWIBELL and QUIBELL. The marriage that appears to have given rise to one of these family lines is recorded at Normanton, Yorkshire on 22nd May 1648 as QUIBELL - Thomas QUIBELL & Mary WARING). Perhaps this is where the East Markham QUIBELL's originated from or could this be another branch that ending up spelling their surname with a "T" rather than a "Q"? There is a lone baptism that appears in the East Markham register and looks like it could belong to this group. (17th April 1627 - Thomas son of William TWIBELL/QWIBELL)
According to a pedigree of families living in and around Sheffield which forms part of the Jackson collection at Sheffield Public Reference Library, the TWYBELL family were retainers to the Talbots Earls of Shrewsbury and were settled several centuries at Southey in Ecclesfield, the prevailing and only names in the elder line being several Williams and five James (from about 1585) in succession.
Phillimore identifies the following early Nottinghamshire marriages: Robert QUIDALE and Magdalene Smithe on 3rd September 1618 and Elizabeth QUIBELL and Thomas BANKES on 22nd September 1626 both at Newark. Mary QUYVELL to John WHITLOM on 7th July 1646 at Gringley and Ann QUINELL and George WALKER on 1st July 1647 at Clarborough. Also noted in the Phillimore transcripts is a 31st January 1570 marriage of a John TWY[-]ELL & Alice WILFORD at Radford.
Any further information about any Quibell families would be more than welcome!
Regards
George Quibell
quibellg@labyrinth.net.au
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