The Newbery - Newburgh Extraction: How the Devonian Newberys descended from the Noble Newburgh family of Dorset

By

Jacob Newbury

During the 16th and 17th centuries many families bearing various forms of the same name, Newbery, can be found to have resided in the county of Devon in England. The origins of these families as one has long since been speculated yet never proven adequately with evidence. Their ancestry has been previously thought to come from the noble Newburgh family of Winfrith and Lulworth in Dorset. Before settling in Dorset, said Newburgh family descended from the first of their name and the first Earl of Warwick, Henry de Newburgh. This avenue of speculation is grounded in the finding that the spelling variants closely associated with Newbery (Newbury and Newberry), have been noted as a variant to 'Newburgh'.

This report pronounces new research regarding the topic and submits a fresh and most logical understanding of how the Newbery families descended from the Newburgh family.