history uncovered

I am enthused! My colleague in England (Chris Phillips) has been able to see the Roy Rolls and things are beginning to look promising for unraveling the mystery of the areas around Bridport and Whitchurch Canonicorum.  These areas are listed in the Roy Rolls as having been involved in the Perkin Warbeck debacle in 1497.  There are supposedly over 340 people from that area who were attainted or executed.  Is it any wonder that the Newburgh name permutation was changed before 1500? 

Those areas are known to have been held by the Newburghs. Sir Roger Newburgh knight (steward of Milton Abbey) held Bridport for a time. He was belted in 1494. His grandfather was a Yorkist and huge supporter of Edward IV. Whitchurch Canonicorum was the area that immigrants to the New World (New England 1634) called home.  Read here more information about the Yorkists and their continued struggle for power. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VII-king-of-England.

Later . . . Sir Roger Newburgh's brother or a son (Walter) had children who seemed to go to WC after holding land in Netherbury.

In the 17th century his descendant, another Walter Newburgh, was a rector in Symondsbury and supported the immigrants who went to New England in 1634.

It is astonishing that historians have completely scrambled the third arm of this family, which as you know were seated in Tonerspuddle and were Yorkists. The Lulworth family were traditionally Lancastrians, and were the only people historians focused on, leaving the truth of our Newburgh line in the dustbin. It feels like we might be getting a little closer to the truth.

Now comes the hard work of translating what we have found. Stay tuned.