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John Marbury was born about 1440, in Marbury, Cheshire, England as the son of James Marbury and spouse James Marbury. He married Elizabeth Dutton about 1458, in Cheshire, England. He died in 1459, in his hometown, at the age of 20.
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1455 · Wars of the Roses
Wars of the Roses was a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England between the royal families House of Lancaster and the House of York. The name of the war was derived as the red rose was the symbol of the Lancastrians and the white rose was the symbol of the Yorks.
Name Meaning
habitational name from Marbury in Great Budworth, or, perhaps, from Marbury cum Quoisley (both in Cheshire). Both placenames derive from Old English mere ‘pool, lake’ + burh ‘fortress’ (dative byrig), ‘stronghold by the lake’.
variant of Marbrow, itself a variant of Marlborough, a habitational name from Marlborough (Wiltshire), which probably derives from an Old English personal name Mǣrla + Old English beorg ‘hill, mound’.
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