The origin of the name PREBLE is English and the Coat of Arms contains Red shield with a gold pale on which there are three black diamond shapes between four silver lions' heads. The Crest is A gold demi-lion.
Spelling variations include: Prebble, Prebbel, Prebell, Prebel, Pribble, Prebble, Preble, Prebbil, Prebyll, Pribble and many more.
First found in Kent; however early records of the name are scarce.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Abraham Preble, who came from Kent, England to the Scituate Colony in Plymouth; he is on record in Massachusetts in 1637; and an account of his descendants: "The Genealogical Sketch of the Fiirst Three Generations of Prebles in America" was written by George Henry Preble, published in 1868and is in the Library of Congress, (CS71.P922). Other settlers included: Henry Preble, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1800.
