Archive for March 24th, 2006
Starbuck
My name is Jonathan Starbuck, Jon to everyone that knows me.
My dad is a Starbuck, our family’s ship chandlers business in Gravesend in Kent has been in the family for nearly four-hundres years, one way on another.
There is a Starbuck in Moby Dick, the whaling novel, and there are, I am told, quite a few Starbucks in Nantucket because of real life whaling. Starbucks, the coffee shop, was not started by one of us, it pinched its name form Moby Dick.
Facebook has spawned a “Starbuck is out name not our coffee shop” group, there are about one-hundred of us on there from across Brittan and the US.
There is a village of Starbeck in England but the name Starbuck is much older than the village’s name. Dad says the name is Viking or Norse, but I think he is making this up. So where does the name come from? I’d love to know.
