Tudberry is an unusual name.There are a variety of spelling variations (eg. Tudbery, Tudberie) - it seems that these ultimately derive from the UK location name Tutbury, but have little firm evidence for this.
My family settled in St Albans (SE England) and my Father's family are from South Shields (NE England).We have known relations in St Albans, Norfolk, Aldershot and Dunstable (England) - and in Australia (probably Queensland) and Idaho, US.
I know of other Tudberry/Tudbury families (in the UK) Sheffield, Mexborough, Nottingham, Tyneside, Bristol.There seem to be very few of us, so we are likely to be related related.
Here's some information I've found about 'Tutbury' in Staffordshire, UK: The birthplace of our name?
Tutbury, celebrated for its ruined castle, once the seat of the Mercian kings, and afterwards the Earls and Dukes of Lancaster, was anciently a market town, and is still a large and respectable village, pleasantly seated on the south bank of the River Dove, which separates it from Derbyshire, five miles NW of Burton-upon-Trent. It has a large station on the North Staffordshire Railway, which here separates in two branches to Derby and Burton. The village has a large cotton mill, on the Dove, erected in 1781, and glass works, commenced 1836, and having steam power for glass cutting, etc.
Tutbury parish comprises 4000 acres of land, including 777 acres in the Tutbury Ward of Needwood Forest, and 1798 souls. The Queen, as Duchess of Lancaster, is lady of the manor, and owns about 2000 acres of the soil, let to several lessees. The rest of the parish belongs to Sir Oswald Mosley, Captain Townshend, and several other freeholders and copyholders, owing suit and service to the court of the 'Honour of Tutbury'.
The 'Honour of Tutbury' was a tightly knit honour of numerous thegns land around the castle at Tutbury. This was first given to Hugh who moved to become earl of Chester. The honour then went to Henry de Ferrers. The castle at Tutbury was a strategic position and so became an important one.
There was an abbey of Benedictine monks at Tutbury who gained land through the honour. However, the main abbey which benefited from the de Ferrers was Merevale.
Prior to the arrival of the Normans there was a much earlier monastery at Hanbury - just outside Tutbury. This was St. Werburga's monastery.
Tutbury Church, St Mary, is a large edifice, with an embattled tower, standing on a declivity near the castle, and finely decorated with beautiful specimens of Saxon architecture. It formed part of the old priory church, founded in 1080.
The 'Trumbull' name website implies that the Tutbury name was acquired through any achievement, perhaps resulting from a daring act in the brutal sport of bull running.This was popular from time immemorial up to the last century, being particularly associated with Tutbury [Staffordshire].
Source: http://www.btinternet.com/~simonmarchini/settleme.htm
Source: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Tutbury/index.html
Source: http://www.trumble-trumbull.com/history.htm
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