THE EARLY FRAMPTON CONNECTION

The news today is . . . we have made significant progress in identifying more of Sir Roger's family. My colleague Chris Phillips has been instrumental in translating a very difficult parchment showing all the names associated in previous documents relating to Sir Roger. I am working on a lengthy article that will finally put to bed a lot of the errors made by historians John Hutchins and Joseph Gardner Bartlett in the genealogies of the Newburghs and Newbery families. They are numerous and disturbing. I think it may be because of this line's Yorkist history, much of which was erased through Henry VII's reign. Happily some of it remains, though we still don't have death documents for Roger, only what remains in other family chronicles.

It appears that Sir Roger must have died shortly after his own brother Walter who died in 1517. Roger's daughter Anastasia married James Frampton. He died between 1521 and 1523. Anastasia seems to have been deceased as well. Short life times for these folks. There are several questions about Frampton's death date that we are still working on. In his IPM we believe he was pointing out that Sir Roger's manor at Upwey was still in his descendant's possession. Still working on this and another document.

This will be the beginning of the end of my research into this family. At the end I plan on another book that will turn the genealogy of the Newburghs around sending it in the right direction instead of into unsurmountable oblivion like previous histories have done. This will probably help those of you who are invested in DNA projects to get the right slant on your pedigrees and especially important to genealogists who are stumped about their lines. This has been a 20 year endeavor and will probably be my final work on this subject. I would like to get back to writing novels and children's books, though I do love this medieval history.
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This AI representation is of Lulworth Castle at East Lulworth, Dorset.