Awbrey/Aubrey Name Study

Profile managers: One Name Studies WikiTree [send private message], Liz Shifflett [send private message], and Stuart Awbrey [send private message]

if appropriate

Study Coordinator: Stuart Awbrey

Study Members:

List is alphabetized by surname with oldest America ancestor:

• Cole Aubrey, descendant of Francis Awbrey
• Rikki Aubrey, descendant of Francis Awbrey
• Stuart Awbrey, Name Study Coordinator, descendant of John Awbrey
• Liz Shifflett, descendant of John Awbrey

• If you would like to become a member, let us know in the Comments below.

You can show your study affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker: {{Member|ONS|name=Awbrey}}

... ... ... is a member of the Awbrey Name Study Project.

The sticker should be placed in the text, below == Biography == (see Help:Stickers#Location on profiles).

Category: Awbrey Name Study This page lists the profiles including variations of the surname which list the Awbrey Name Study category.

Purpose

This purpose of this One Name Study is to assemble everything about the Aubrey or Awbrey surnames and the variants of that name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.

Please add the category to your profiles.

Ask your questions in the comments section below and let us know about your research, etc.

Name Origin

Click on this link to see the complete Research Results (under revision).

A popular belief is that the surname Aubrey/Awbrey owes it origin to Alberich, a legendary sorcerer who originated in the mythology or epic sagas of the Frankish Merovinginan Dynasty of the 5th to 8th century - Religion Wiki – Alberich.

There are recorded instances of the use of Alberic as a individual’s name as early as the 700s such as Alberic of Utrecht who died in 784 – Wikipedia – Alberic.

Some of the early examples indicate Alberic is equivalent to Aubrey.

At this time, it is not known if the name Alberic derived from the mythological figure Alberich, or the reverse.

In the Norman French language, Alberic(h) is translated to the French Aubry or Aubrey. In Normandy, at the time of the Conquest of England, the language of the law was French. Both the Norman French and French languages existed concurrently. The Latin spelling is Albericus.

After the Conquest, the Anglo-Norman dialect of Norman French served as a language of administration in England and Law French was used in the courts.

The Aubrey/Awbrey ancestor who came to England at the time of the Conquest is listed in WikiTree as Saunder de Sancto Alberico as well as in other sources.

Should the correct spelling be Alberic as Alberico is the Italian derivative?

It is possible the family name became commonly spelled as Aubry or Aubrey sometime after Saunder de Sancto Alberico arrived in England. This could explain why Sir Reginald Aubrey/Awbrey was known by that name after arriving in Wales around 1093.

Possibly, the Awbrey spelling is an anglicized version. If so, we don’t know with certainty if or when any of the earliest ancestors in Wales began using this spelling. It is possible authors of books about the family used this spelling as it may have been the preferred English spelling.

Adding a Profile to the Name Study

To see profiles already included in the Awbrey Name Study, see Category: Awbrey Name Study

To include a profile in the Awbrey Name Study, add the sticker to the profile page (which also adds the category):

This profile is part of the Awbrey Name Study.

{{One Name Study|name=Awbrey}}

The sticker should be placed in the text, below == Biography == (see Help:Stickers#Location on profiles).

Note: This Name Study was begun in 2017. This study follows the guidelines found in the One Name Studies FAQ page including which profiles should be included in this study.

This study includes everyone with the surname Awbrey/Aubrey (and other variations), to include males, females (maiden name), and adoptees with the Awbrey/Aubrey/etc. surname. Also included are those who married into the family - both the wives of an Awbrey/Aubrey/etc. (whether or not they take the name) and the men who married an Awbrey. By including in this category all Awbrey/Aubrey/etc. profiles, as well as their spouses', we hope to facilitate family research and help cousins find us.

DNA

One purpose of a One Name Study is to facilitate DNA studies. For autosomal or mitochondrial DNA studies, anyone born into the family, male and female, should be identified, but if you are looking at Y-DNA, you would want to identify Awbrey/Aubrey/etc. males. At a future time an additional category may be added that would include only Awbrey/Aubrey/etc. males in order to facilitate Y-DNA studies.

Research Pages

Here are some WikiTree pages with information that may aid your research:

• Aubrey/Awbrey Name Origin Study
• Awbrey Magna Carta Trail (still in progress)
• Awbrey Magna Carta Trail - Richard and Gilbert de Clare
• The Early Aubrey/Awbrey Family in Wales From 1060 to 1350

If you find a page that would be of interest, you can add it to the list or contact the Study Coordinator: Stuart Awbrey for assistance. You can share ideas for research areas you would like to pursue by posting a comment to this page (which will send an e-mail copy to the managers) or posting to G2G using the "Ask Question" button (which will link the post to this page).