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Hello to all you Newburgh/Newberry/Morris folks. I will be sending out a newsletter in the next couple of days to report on several new findings. 

Things are coming together so that we can make a reasonable connection between the Newburghs of Lulworth and the people who moved into the triangle area of Stockland, Membury, and Dalwood. Many people believe this group are not related to the armigerous Lulworth family. Soon, I think you will agree that indeed, there was a connection after the younger sons of the Lord of East Lulworth were struggling to remain relevant.

If you remember from old news back around 2010, we came to the conclusion that our New England relatives (Thomas and Richard Newbery) were cousins. There was what appeared to be a feud going on in the mid-16th century between their fathers and grandfathers. 

Some older information garnered from medieval Stockland is suddenly beginning to make sense. 

The newsletter for April 2025 will be the last for awhile. I am putting all the information together that I have gathered over the past twenty years and will be publishing it in a cogent manner in 2026, under the possible title: The Quintessential Medieval History of the Newburgh Family of SW Dorset. 

I am debating using the word Quintessential or Existential in the title. What do you think? Which ever works best will be used in the end. 

This book, through original documentation, is going to tell a history that has never been published. Hutchins' work "The History of Dorset" was first published in 1774. Most of his facts came via word of mouth, from people who either knew or were related to the family. Consequently, a lot of facts were left out. That is where I come in to the picture.

Let me explain. Back in 2005, I sat down and began reading Joseph Gardner Bartlett's genealogy of the Newburgh family. I was bothered by what appeared to be missing links. Bartlett unfortunately did little original work when putting together his Newberry genealogy compendium. Essentially, his work was copied from a framework provided by Hutchins. Bartlett was commissioned by John S. Newberry to write this history. 

In the 1920's the College of Arms began writing to Bartlett pointing out numerous errors. There was a postal exchange up until around 1929 where the pursuivant argued Bartlett's mistakes and Bartlett argued back that he was spot on. Consequently, Bartlett never corrected his mistakes. 

The problem with Hutchins and Bartlett is that they left out a whole society of people descended from John Newburgh Esq. Lord of E. Lulworth, born 7 July 1402, d. 27 March 1483/4. 

The Esquire had two sons born about the same time. *JOHN JR. was born to his wife Edith Attemore. *WILLIAM was born to the Esquire's mistress Alice Carent. Alice became his second wife when Edith died c. 1448. Both these sons were born in the 1430's. Exact dates are unknown. 

With his first wife Edith, The Esquire went on to have a son named Robert, and his youngest was Thomas. The Esquire was married to Edith for twenty-six years. By the time Edith died, Alice was entering middle-age. She had only one more child with the Esquire, their daughter Isabel. The schism in this story is - Hutchins and Bartlett claimed all of the Esquire's children were produced by his second wife Alice who died in 1482.

I knew there was something wrong and finally went to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, where I looked at the microfilm of the Feet of Fines, Vol. 10, pages 370-371. These two pages blew Hutchins and Bartlett's histories right out of the water. In the quiet of the library I whopped with joy. Fifteen years later, I am finally and getting to the facts together.

John Jr. has been inadequately researched, probably due to unfortunate events involving his half brother William. 

Consequently, John Jr.'s sons and grandson are barely recognized, especially in Hutchins' work. William on the other hand, was celebrated. At the time of his death at Tewkesbury, William had four sons who were widely acclaimed and became heirs to their grandfather the Esquire.

So my new book is delving into the real history behind John Jr. and his family who were descended from the Attemore family. These people are essential to the telling of the truth. 

Milton Abbey is key to solving John Jr.'s descendants and their movement to Stockland. 

I also will be adding new information about some of the history of their descendants who immigrated to New England in the mid-17th century. 

If anything really astounding crops up in the future, I will post a short squib here and on the BLOG on the deNovoBurgoChronicles.com web site.

So I hope all of you will join me in supporting the new history of the Newburghs. All my work is verifiable through original documents obtained from various archives in the UK. Please share this widely with your family members who value authentic genealogy. I will send out a notice of pre-launch so folks can sign up for a copy. Please encourage your families to signup for my mailing list. To do that, just go to the contact page on the deNovoBurgoChronicles.com web site.

​Many thanks!