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16th century iron workers
from De Re Metallica, 1556 by Georgius Agricola |
Maybury family origins in England and
Ireland
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John Maybury of Sussex
John Maybury lived in England from about 1540 to 1618. He was a skilled iron worker who
married Margaret Bourder at Brightling, Sussex in 1565. He worked in Sussex, Staffordshire, Monmouth
and Hampshire and died at Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire in 1618. With one possible exception (see Frederick Mayberry
below), we believe that all Mayburys, Mayberrys, Mabrys, etc., are his descendants.
The common ancestor of most modern Mayburys/Mayberrys, etc. |
The early Maybury generations in England
By the time John Maybury died in 1618, his children and grandchildren were living in at
least ten counties in England. For several generations they continued to work as "hammermen" or "forgemen", following
the iron industry as it expanded to new parts of England, Wales, Ireland and America.
A dynasty of skilled iron workers from 1585 until 1657 |
Richard and Anne Maybury of Cartmel, Lancashire
Richard Maybury established the family in Lancashire when he married
Anne Wright at Cartmel in 1627. When they both died in 1643, their eldest son, John Maybury
inherited most of the family estate. But he soon squandered it and fled to Londonderry in northern Ireland. There he
helped establish an iron works near Kilrea. "Mayberry" soon became the preferred spelling.
Their son, John, takes the family to Londonderry, Ireland in 1657 |
William Maybury in Kenmare, County Kerry, Ireland
William Maybury was born to a family of iron workers in England. By 1671
some of them were working at Enniscorthy in County Wexford, Ireland. At least two Maybury hammermen were hired by Sir
William Petty to help with his iron works in County Kerry. In Kerry William Maybury married Rachel Orpen.
Today their descendants can be found in Kerry, Cork, England, the U.S., Canada and Australia.
His descendants are found in Kerry, Cork and in England |
Early emigrants to
America - 1675 to 1750
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Francis Maybury in Henrico County, Virginia
Francis Maybury was probably born during the English civil wars.
He was the first Maybury to journey to America where he settled in Henrico County, Virginia about 1675. In 1685 he
married Elizabeth Gilliam, twice widowed and the mother of five young children! Together they had
seven more children, establishing what is still the largest Maybury family in the United States. Francis died in Surry
County in 1712.
The first Maybury family in America about 1675 |
Thomas Maybury in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Thomas Maybury "blacksmith" arrived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania by
1716. His son, Thomas Maybury "ironmaster" (died 1747) built Green Lane Forge in what is now Montgomery
County. Thomas "blacksmith" moved to Virginia by 1742 where he was hired to build a bloomery in Frederick County.
Other members of the family, including at least two more named Thomas, operated furnaces and forges in Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia.
A dynasty of ironmasters in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey and Virginia |
William Mayberry in Marblehead, Massachusetts
William Mayberry, a blacksmith, was born about 1688 in County Antrim, Ireland.
He was a grandson of John Maybury who came to Londonderry in 1657 from Lancashire. William and
his wife, Bathsheba Dennis left Ireland about 1730 to settle in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Later they
moved to Windham, which in 1820 became part of the new state of Maine. Many of William and Bathsheba Mayberry's descendants
still live in Maine.
Family later settled near Windham (now in Maine) |
Frederick Mayberry of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia
Frederick Mayberry, according conflicting traditions, was born in Germany or Holland.
Other traditions say he was "of English descent" or "of Scotch-Irish descent". He either emigrated to New Jersey about
1750 or was born there. Some say he lived near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania before moving to Bedford County Virginia where
he died in 1801. Although the DNA signature of Frederick Mayberry's descendants does not match that of the English
Mayburys, Frederick could still be closely related to the Pennsylvania Mayburys, some of whom married recent German
immigrants and and attended German speaking churches in Pennsylvania.
Family traditions suggest contradictory origins |
Emigrants to
America and Australia after 1750
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William and George Mayberry in Pennsylvania and Virginia
William Mayberry was born about 1738 and according to one reference was
"an Irishman". His younger brother, George Mayberry, was born about 1757. Having come to Pennsylvania sometime prior to
the American Revolution, William Mayberry served with the colonists in that war. The two brothers later operated iron
furnaces in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. It is likely that this small branch of the family is closely related to the
iron worker Mayburys of Pennsylvania.
Ironmasters in the Shenandoah Valley; later lived in Ohio |
James Washington Mayberry of Chambers County, Alabama
James Washington Mayberry, according the inscription on his tombstone,
was born in England. He lived briefly in Illinois and Georgia before settling in Chambers County, Alabama where he
died in 1872. In the 1850 census he gave his own birthplace as South Carolina. In the 1880 census his sons gave their
father's birthplace as "North Carolina", "Tennessee", "Illinois" and "England". The DNA evidence points to his being
a descendant of Francis Maybury of Virginia.
Immigrant from England or born in America? |
Richard Mayberry in Aux Noix, Quebec
Richard Mayberry (1798- ) is said to have been born in County Antrim,
Ireland in 1798, a descendant of the Mayberry family of Londonderry. He he emigrated to Isle Aux Noix in Quebec about
1820. He and his wife, Margaret Schweier, had 13 children.
Emigrated from County Antrim about 1820 |
William Valentine Maybury in Australia
William Valentine Maybury was born in 1799, at Shifnal, near Madeley
in Shropshire. He was a son of William and Jane Maybury. On 30 October 1827 at Old Bailey in London,
William Valentine Maybury pleaded guilty to embezzlement and was sentenced to be transported to Australia for
fourteen years. Today his descendants are found in both Australia and New Zealand.
Transported from England to Australia in 1827 |
Thomas Maybury in Detroit, Michigan about 1835
Thomas Maybury was born about 1809, a descendant of the Mayburys of
Kerry and Cork in Ireland. He and his wife Margaret Cotter emigrated to Detroit, Michigan about 1835.
His brother, Henry Maybury, followed a few years later.
A Maybury family closely connected with Henry Ford |
Daniel Maybery to South Africa about 1850
Daniel Maybery was born in 1826 in Bristol, England, a son of Thomas
and Margaret Maybery. He went to South Africa about 1850 and married Sarah Coyle in 1853.
After financial difficulities let to domestic crisis, the couple separated and Thomas returned to England where he died
in Cardiff, Wales in 1882.
First known family to settle in South Africa; descendants are still there |
John Maybery in South Australia in 1853
John Maybery was born in Tavistock, Devonshire in 1821. He married
Ann Maria Huff in 1843 and settled in the village of Wick, seven miles from Bristol. In 1853 they
migrated to Australia, arriving at Port Adelaide on 9 February aboard the Walvsich. John died in 1870 at age 48.
His Maybury ancestors can be traced back through Philip Maybery of Llanarth (1718-1780)
to John Maybury (1577-1651) of Cleobury Mortimer in Shropshire.
A descendant of John Maybury (1577-1651) of Cleobury Mortimer |
Thomas, Francis, George and William Maybury in Canada about 1859
Four brothers, Thomas, Francis, George and William Maybury, from County
Kerry in Ireland, emigrated to Canada beginning about 1859. A fifth brother, James Maybury, went to
New York in 1864.
A fifth brother, James, emigrated to New York in 1864 |
Richard Hawkes Maybury in Missouri in 1869
Richard Hawkes Maybury, a son of William Kingston Maybury
and Marie Hawkes, was born about 1845 in County Kerry, Ireland. He emigrated to Missouri in 1869 where
he married Emaline Amelia Rose
in 1873.
Another emigrant from County Kerry, Ireland to the U.S. |
James Purdon Maybury in New South Wales, Australia in 1886
James Purdon Maybury was born in March 1865, a son of John
Kingston Maybury and Kate Purdon of County Kerry, Ireland. In 1886, at the age of 21, he
went to Australia to settle in New South Wales.
Immigrant to Australia from County Kerry, Ireland |
John Mayberry of Sussex and Warren Counties in New Jersey
John Mayberry was born about 1757, place unknown. He lived in that
part of Sussex County, New Jersey which became Warren County after 1824. He and his wife, Charity Young,
are buried at Knowlton, New Jersey. We do not know whether John was born in England, Ireland, or in America. His places
of residence suggest a possible relationship with the Mayburys of Pennsylvania.
Native of America or immigrant from England or Ireland? |
A summary of Maybury
emigration from England
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Books about the Maybury family
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| Nine books about various branches of the family in America have already been published. Some of these are now out of print but others are still available. |
| A new book, The Mayburys, will cover the family beginning with its origin in 16th century England. Publication is planned for 2009. Please see the latest information about The Mayburys here. |
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