| ![Show Contents]() Rubery History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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 England The Rubery surname is a habitational name, taken on from any of various places so named: for example, Rubery in Herefordshire and Worcestershire. The place names come from the Old English "ruh," meaning "rough," or "overgrown," and "beorg," or "hill." Early Origins of the Rubery familyThe surname Rubery was first found in Devon at Roborough, a village in the South Hams, that dates back to at least the Domesday Book where it was listed as Raweberge and literally meant "rough hill," having been derived from the Old English ruh + beorg 1 At the time of the Domesday Book, Roborough, was held by a steward of the Bishop Coutances and was part of the Roborough hundred. It held enough land for 14 ploughs and had 3 borders with 8 ploughs. It also had 16 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture and 20 acres of woodland. 2 Roborough, Torridge is a small village in North Devon. Roborough Castle is an Iron Age enclosure or hill fort situated close to Lynton. Early History of the Rubery familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Rubery research. Another 132 words (9 lines of text) covering the years 1327 and 1938 are included under the topic Early Rubery History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Rubery Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Roborough, RowBerry, Rowbrey, Robury, Rubery, Rubbery, Robbery, Robery, Ruberry, Rubra, Rowborrow, Rowbro and many more. Early Notables of the Rubery familyMore information is included under the topic Early Rubery Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Migration of the Rubery familySome of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: the name represented in many forms and recorded from the mid 17th century in the great migration from Europe. Migrants settled in the eastern seaboard from Newfoundland, to Maine, to Virginia, the Carolinas, and to the islands..
| Contemporary Notables of the name Rubery (post 1700) | + |
- John Tunner Rubery (1849-1920), English co-founder with his two brothers Samuel and Thomas (1856-1925) of Rubery Owen, a British engineering company at Darlaston, West Midlands in 1884
- Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)
- Williams, Dr Ann. And G.H. Martin, Eds., Domesday Book A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-141-00523-8)
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