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NORBURY Family History

This name is of English locational origin from either of the two places in Cheshire thus called, one near Whitchurch and the other near Stockport, or from Norbury in Derbyshire, Shropshire, Surrey and Staffordshire. Recorded variously as Norberie, Nordberie and Nortberie in the Domesday Book of 1086 for the above counties, the name, in all cases, derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century 'north' meaning north, plus 'burh', a fort or fortified settlement; hence, 'the northern settlement'. The surname was first recorded towards the end of the 12th Century, (see below).