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| 'The History of the Family of Drury' starts with 3 brothers: Peter of Horningsheath (a 1086), Burchard of Bardwell (3rd son who had a son Warin of Bardwell who had issue) and ... | |||||||||||||||
| Dr29 Drieu (?) of St. Edmund b about1000 | |||||||||||||||
| Dr28 | Walter of Livermere (b about1030 a 1086) | ||||||||||||||
| Dr27-1 | Robert FitzWalter of Livermere (a 1114) | ||||||||||||||
| i. | Robert of Horningsheath (a 1197) | ||||||||||||||
| Dr27-2 | Richard FitzWalter (b about1050 a 1121) | ||||||||||||||
| Dr27 | Drieu FitzWalter de St. Edmund of Horningsheath (b c1080) | ||||||||||||||
| Dr26 | Sir Richard FitzDrieu de St. Edmund of Horningsheath (b about1120 a 1186, 2nd son) | ||||||||||||||
| Dr25-1 | Humphrey FitzDrieu de St. Edmund of Horningsheath (a 1208) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Matilda | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Robert FitzDrieu of Livermere (a 1215) | ||||||||||||||
| (A) | Thomas de Livermere of Horningsheath | ||||||||||||||
| (i) | Robert de Livermere (a 1302) | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | Richard FitzDrieu (a 1233) | ||||||||||||||
| (3) | Alice FitzDrieu | ||||||||||||||
| m. Henry de Nekton of Fornham | |||||||||||||||
| Dr25-2 | Walter FitzDrieu de St. Edmund (5th son) | ||||||||||||||
| (1)+ | issue - Richard, Nicholas of Fornham | ||||||||||||||
| Dr25 | Robert FitzDrieu de St. Edmund (b about1150 d 1200-3) | ||||||||||||||
| The family history book appears to suggest that the name Drury was not used until the 14th century at least, although FitzDrieu gradually became FitzDruri. We use Drury as the family name for generations from here on largely for the sake of simplicity. | |||||||||||||||
| m. Matilda (dau of Anselm FitzOsard de Thurston) | |||||||||||||||
| Dr24 | John FitzRobert Drury of Thurston (b about1200 2nd son) | ||||||||||||||
| Dr23 | John Drury (a 1280) | ||||||||||||||
| Dr22-1 | John FitzJohn Drury of Thurston | ||||||||||||||
| (a) | Alice Drury (a 1305) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Henry Le Lomb of Thurston | |||||||||||||||
| Dr22 | Henry FitzJohn Drury (b about1240 a 1286, 1325) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Havise Green (a 1297, dau of Richard de la Grene of Barkway) | |||||||||||||||
| Dr21 | John Drury of Thurston (b about1280 a 1345) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Amabilia Newton (dau of Thomas Newton) | |||||||||||||||
| Dr20 | Sir Nicholas Drury of Thurston and Rougham b about1325 | ||||||||||||||
| m. Agnes Saxham (dau of Sir Simon de Saxham) | |||||||||||||||
| Dr19 | Sir Roger Drury of Rougham (b about1365 d 1420) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Margaret Naunton (dau of Sir Thomas Naunton of Chavents) | |||||||||||||||
| Dr18 | Sir William Drury of Rougham (b about1405 d 1450) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Katherine Swinford (d 1478, dau of Sir Thomas Swinford) | |||||||||||||||
| Dr18-2 | Thomas Drury of Hessett (d 1444) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Joan | |||||||||||||||
| ((a))+ | issue - William, John, Thomas, Walter, Alice, Joan, Margery, Agnes | ||||||||||||||
| Dr18-3 | Elizabeth Drury (d 1467) | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Baret of Bury | |||||||||||||||
| Dr18-4 | Margery Drury presumably the Margery who married ... | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Clopton of Long Melford (d 08.1446) | |||||||||||||||
| Dr18-5+ | other issue - George (dsp), Roger (dsp), Nicholas (dsp), Joan | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Joan (d 1446) | |||||||||||||||
| Dr19 | Nicholas Drury of Thurston (d 1456) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Joan Heath (dau of Thomas Heath of Mildenhall) | |||||||||||||||
| Dr18-1=17-1 | Henry Drury of Ickworth (dvp) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Haton (dau of George Haton) | |||||||||||||||
| ((a)) | Henry Drury (dvpsp) | ||||||||||||||
| ((b)) | Joan or Jane Drury | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Thomas Hervey of Ickworth (d 1477) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Sir William Carew of Bury St. Edmund | |||||||||||||||
| Dr18=17 | Roger Drury of Hawstead | ||||||||||||||
| m. Felice Dunston (dau of William Dunston of Besthorpe) | |||||||||||||||
| Dr18-3=17-3 | Elizabeth Drury | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Monk | |||||||||||||||
| Dr19-3 | John Drury of Wetherby | ||||||||||||||
| ((i)) | Roger Drury | ||||||||||||||
| Dr20-2 | Roger Drury (a 1362, rector of Great Barton or Beckerton) | ||||||||||||||
| Dr21-2 | Nigel Drury, Sheriff of London | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margery | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | Edward Drury of London | ||||||||||||||
| ((2)) | Sarah Drury | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas de Spayne of London | |||||||||||||||
| Dr21-3 | Alice Drury | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Sweeting of Suffolk | |||||||||||||||
| Dr21-4+ | other issue - Roger (rector of Bradfield), Matilda (a 1302) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Cecily Reyner (dau of John Reyner) | |||||||||||||||
| Dr22-3 | Roger FitzJohn Drury of Groton (a 1318) | ||||||||||||||
| Dr24-2 | Jordan FitzRobert Drury | ||||||||||||||
| m. Matilda | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | William FitzJordan Drury (a 1249) | ||||||||||||||
| Dr24-3+ | other issue - Richard (dsp before 1249), Nicholas | ||||||||||||||
| Dr25-4+ | other issue - Drieu, Geoffrey, William | ||||||||||||||
| Dr26-2+ | other issue - Humphrey of Livermere (dsp), Drieu | ||||||||||||||
Main
source(s): 'The History of the Family of Drury in the counties of Suffolk
and Norfolk from the Conquest' by Arthur Campling, 1937.
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