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Continued: KINGSBURY FAMILY
"Among the Kingsburys, honesty and probity of character appear as marked features and the trust and confidence inspired by those traits have led to long continued terms in office in both church and State". Especially in the church, for there have been many Deacon Kingsburys.
Many have held offical positions, and were evidently trusted by their neighbors, as they remained in office for a long time.
There seems to be a strong military tendency in the family, and in this profession it has won it's greatest distinction, but in theology, medicine and law it has a good record.
Hon. Dainiel Webster was descended from Henry Kingsbury, through his mother Abigail Eastman and Mrs Frances Folsom Cleveland is also descended from this same Kingsbury-Eastman line. Also Senator Eugene Hale has Kingsbury blood in his veins. Rev Azel Backus DD first president of Hamilton College New York was a descendent also Mr John Ward Dean Boston son of a Kingsbury mother.
The name Kingsbury is an ancient one and takes us back to the Saxon Kings.
There were four places in England by the name of Kingsbury. One in the county of Middlesex, about eight miles from London. One in Herfordshire, one in Warwickshire and one in Kingsbury Hundred called Kingsbury East-in Somersetshire on the river Parrot. Its ancient name was Kingsbury Espiscopii.
Kingsbury in Warwickshire belonged to the famous countess Godiva. It was once called "Chinesburie". The Lordship of Kingsbury remained until the time of Elizabeth in the family of Peter de Bracebridge. A daughter of this race married Sir John Arden of Arden, Shakespears mother.
The Bracebridges lived in Kingsbury Hall. Their Arms may be seen impaled with those of the family of Francis.
Kingsbury Hall is described as a "house of Henry Seventh's time built with it's great mononcourt chamber within a fortress, of which the curtain wall and the octagonal towers remain, probably of the time of King John. The manor of Kingsbury in the hundred of Caishoe county Herts was so termed from the Saxon Kings, who were the ancient prossessors thereof and often resided and kept their court there amoung whom Bertulph King of the Mercians celebrated a Parlimentary Council there, on Friday after Easter in the year of Christ 851. There was a stately palace that belonged to the Castle of Kingsbury, situated at the west end of the town of it St Albens, where the Saxon Kings delighted much, and their nobles and officers so often resorted .....that they became a great burden an charge to the Abbots and Monks of St Albens which induced them to purchase it. After they had made many addresses to the King for it, Alfric, who had been Chancellor to King Etheldred whilst he was Secular; prevailed with the King to sell to them all the Royal Manor of Kingsbury, with the park and woods belonging to it excepting one small fortress near the monastery, which the King would not suffer to be demolished, that the Marks his Royal House would not be forgotten; and the Abbot and Monks bought and enjoyed it until the time of the dissolution when it returned to the Crown."
"Through various hands it passed to Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount verulam Keeper of the Great Seal, but when the Seal was taken from him and he retired from the Court he sold it" (Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire by Sir Henry Chauncy)
"Camdon speaks of Kingsbury Castle at St Albans in his Britannia". "The first individual that is known to us is Gilbery Kingsbury of Warwick about 1300 (Suffolk Traveller). He was the incumbent of St Peters church, Kingsbury, Warsickshire in 1414 appears the name of John de Kingsbury."
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