Lathbury History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England

The name Lathbury sprang from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. It comes from when the family lived in the region of Lathbury near Newport. Lathbury is a habitation name from the broad category of surnames that were derived from place-names. They were derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads. Other local names are derived from the names of houses, manors, estates, regions, and entire counties.

Early Origins of the Lathbury family

The surname Lathbury was first found in Buckinghamshire at Lathbury, a village and civil parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes, in the union of Newport-Pagnell, hundred of Newport. This parish which is almost surrounded by the river Ouse, comprises about 1,200 acres. The place dates back to the Domesday Book where it was listed as Lateberie and literally meant "fortification built with laths or beams" having derived from the Old English words laett + burh. 1

There is a grand manor house which dates back to at least 1272. Later, some of the family were found at Egginton in Derbyshire. "The manor [of Egginton] afterwards vested in the family of Lathbury, of whom a coheiress brought a moiety to the Leighs; and on the death of Sir Henry Leigh in the reign of James I., the estate passed to his daughter Anne." 2

Early History of the Lathbury family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Lathbury research. Another 224 words (16 lines of text) covering the years 1086, 1093, 1153, 1273, 1510, 1537, 1578, 1579, 1600, 1609 and 1798 are included under the topic Early Lathbury History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Lathbury Spelling Variations

The English language only became standardized in the last few centuries; therefore,spelling variations are common among early Anglo-Saxon names. As the form of the English language changed, even the spelling of literate people's names evolved. Lathbury has been recorded under many different variations, including Lathbury, Lathebury, Lathbiry, Lathebyr, Lathebyre, Lathburye, Lathburie and many more.

Early Notables of the Lathbury family

Distinguished members of the family include

John LathBerry, a famous theologian of the late Middle Ages, and Thomas Lathbury, a widely published ecclesiastical historian in the 19th century

Lathbury migration to the United States +

For many English families, the political and religious disarray that shrouded England made the far away New World an attractive prospect. On cramped disease-ridden ships, thousands migrated to those British colonies that would eventually become Canada and the United States. Those hardy settlers that survived the journey often went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Analysis of immigration records indicates that some of the first North American immigrants bore the name Lathbury or a variant listed above:

Lathbury Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Richard Lathbury, who arrived in Virginia in 1653 3
John Lathbury, who landed in Virginia in 1655 3
Daniel Lathbury to America in 1680

Lathbury Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

James Lathbury to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1833

Contemporary Notables of the name Lathbury (post 1700) +

Thomas Lathbury (1798-1865), English cleric known as an ecclesiastical historian from Brackley, Northamptonshire
William Lathbury (1843-1884), English-born, New Zealand cricketer who played one first-class match for Otago in 1875
Kathleen Culhane Lathbury (1900-1993), British biochemist known for her work with insulin and vitamins
Daniel Conner Lathbury (1831-1922), British newspaper editor and writer from Wootton, near Northampton
Sir Gerald Lathbury (1906-1978), British Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in East Africa in the 1950s and Governor of Gibraltar from 1965 to 1969

Citations +

Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)