John Drury (abt. 1180 - abt. 1250)

Born about 1180 in Suffolk, England

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Died about 1250 at about age 70 in Suffolk, England

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Notes

Campling's summary:

JOHN fil. ROBERT DE THURSTON, the second son and eventual heir to his father, was born before 1203, probably about 1180. He was a surety for his half-brother William de Wridwell in the latter’s suit against the Abbot of Warden in 1239, and in 1242 was one of the Inquisition of St. Edmund’s held for the purpose of ascertaining the holders of fees in the Hundred of Thedwastre owing military service.

John de Thurston was cited in a plea at Sudbury in 1244, and it appears from the Abbey Cellarer’s accounts that he held a parcel of land in Rougham. He was living in 1249, a party to a suit as to land in Thurston.

Conforming to a practice less common in England than among the Latin races Drieu began to take on i or y and became disyllabic on the analogy of Alvred becoming Avery, Elmer – Emery, Reinfrid – Renfrey and perhaps Hugh into Urri and finally Hurry. Much later in Tudor days the Drury’s harked back and christened their sons Dru or Drew.

About this time the family surname of Drury settled and the next generation of the family are so styled, although their territorial designations persisted for some time in documents concerning them.

A supreme example of this avoidance of the colloquial surname is that of Plantagenet; the first known use of this dynastic appellation is no earlier than in the reign of Henry VI when Richard, duke of York, father of Edward IV, assumed it.

There is sufficient evidence that the numerous Richards, Williams and Rogers of the Domesday survey had their surnames, hereditary or otherwise, in spite of the neglect thereof by the scribes of that return; and this custom of more of less ignoring them in documents of legal force continued for some generations.

Sources

• Arthur Campling, (1937), The History of the Family of Drury, Ch II "Drury of Thurston". Available on wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20120717074110/http://www.genealogysource.com/druryhistpt2.htm
• J. Muskett, 1899, Suffolk Manorial Families, Vol. 1,"Drury Pedigrees" page 346 gives an old manuscript pedigree. Available on wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20140130035720/http://www.genealogysource.com/muskett346.htm

Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of Acrossthepond.ged on 21 February 2011.
• Also see http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/a/t/k/Dennis-Atkinson/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-1615.html
• Also verified from the Genealogy worksheets compiled by Ralph Pryor during his 40 years of research, traveling extensively in the military and in retirement, entered in Wikitree by Greg Rose, his grandson.