In this issue: Northampton Soldiers 1 Using the Internet to Further your Research 2 The Coreys in the North East 3 - 4 DNA Surprises 4 Cory - its variants and deviants 5 -7 Membership News; Executive Committee 8

DECEMBER 2004 35

Northampton Soldiers

by Marilyn Cory and Margaret Goffin

When Colin Cory and Brenda Miller’s cousin Pat Betts (who was second in command for the caterers at the Cory weekend in Northampton) wrote a 144 page book called “We Will Remember Them”, she discovered that eight names were missing from the Harpole war memorial. The Harpole Heritage Society had the names of these soldiers engraved on a brass plaque and a ceremony was held at 11.00 am on Saturday 30th October to honour them. The Boys Brigade band played and Colin and Brenda’s father, Fred Cory, along with some other ‘Veterans’ laid poppies. Fred was chosen to take the salute at the ‘March Past’. It was the first time he had ever worn his medals, and that was only by special request and some considerable persuasion!

A photograph of Fred’s father, Arthur Ernest Cory, was featured on the front cover of issue No 19. He was a soldier in the First World War and was sent to the Suffolk Regiment because they were drafting in new recruits from anywhere in the country after suffering heavy losses. Arthur survived perhaps because he was fortunate not to be drafted to the Northampton Regiment as they later lost many men during the battle of the Somme.

Robert Ashby Cory from Harpole and Charles Samuel Cory who was born in Northampton died in the First World War and Arthur Bellchambers Cory of Kingsthorpe, Northampton died during World War Two.

Fred Cory of Northampton wearing his medals.

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Tracing one’s family history has been growing in popularity particularly since computers and internet access make research so much easier. This growing interest by the general public has more recently generated a series of programmes about TV personalities who have been helped to trace their roots. At the end of the programme, the presenter explains where the information was found. I thought that you would be interested to see how the Cory Society researched information in response to an enquiry. In October our secretary Jean Hayes received an e-mail from Les Hewett of New Zealand via our cory@one-name.org address. Les was asking for information about Guy Chamberlyn Cory, a bachelor born in Calais, France, physician and surgeon of Dudley, Newcastle, NSW, who married Margaret Duff in 1893. Les provided the additional information that Guy’s parents were W G Cory, physician and M Chamberlyn of Norfolk. Jean forwarded the e-mail on to those with interest in Norfolk to see if we could help. Michael Cory and I both checked the Cory archives and we soon came up with plenty of material and Ida Birch searched her files too. You see how we rush to help! The family concerned was related to Michael Cory’s own line and could be traced back to 1485 in Bramerton, Norfolk but with so much more information available on-line I decided to see if I could find some missing details. Guy Chamberlyn Cory’s father William Gillett Cory was born in Runham in Norfolk in 1827 and died in 1884 at 27 West Mall, Clifton, Bristol, Gloucestershire. A will of 2 Feb 1861 shows him living in Brighton, Sussex. William married during the 1848/2q (PRO Holbeach 14.723). When Michael Cory, Malcolm Cory, Michael S Cory and Jean Hayes compiled the Cory lists of Births, Marriages and Deaths from the PRO on behalf of the Society, there was no way to find out the spouse in a marrriage unless you sent for the certificate. So William’s first wife was entered in our records at that point as “unknown”. Pam Cory, our Australian Co-ordinator, wrote in May 2002 with information from Pamela Howard that William had married Louisa Howard. In order to check the details of the second marriage, I went to the Free BMD website at www.freebmd.rootsweb.com. This is very useful for looking up births, marriages and deaths and is a free site of PRO records transcribed by volunteers. The official site for PRO records is at www.1837online.com but as this is pay to view (£5 for 55 units) I always look first at the Free BMD site although because of its success it can be very busy. I found only one marriage for William Gillett Cory on Free BMD reference Holbeach 14. 723 and by clicking onto the 723 found four possible spouses, one named Louisa Ann Howard. Our records show that their children were William Howard (1851), Edith Isobel (1854) and Alice Helena Hudson (1855). The Free BMD PRO birth lists show Louisa W Cory was born in Epsom, Surrey 1849/1q IV 158 and the others were registered at Epsom too. Another child, Edward Augustus Cory, died in Epsom in the 1854/3q who could have been another son but without the certificate this can not be confirmed. Our records indicated that William married Mary Wrench née Bigsby after the death of her first husband and had three children by her, Guy (c1864), Mary R (1868) and Rose (1871). All are seen in the census records as Cory. A letter from Paul Andrew Bigsby-Chamberlin of Australia, who wrote to our previous secretary Margaret Cullingworth, suggested that Mary might have had two children by Capt Alfred Wrench before he was killed in battle in India. Her marriage to Alfred Wrench is recorded in the September qtr 1852 (ref Tunbridge Reg District 2a 546) found once more on Free BMD although this lists her name as Mary Rigsby Chamberlin but this could well be a transcription error. Guy's second name is Chamberlyn. Les Hewett had been unable to find a record of Guy’s birth in the PRO and Ida Birch and I looked but were unable to find it nor that of his sisters. I tried searching for them under Wrench with no result which might suggest that Les was correct in saying

Guy (and perhaps also his sisters) were born in Calais. The 1891 census lists a Rose Cory as born in France. What happened to Mary? Did she die in France around 1871? There was no death recorded on the Free BMD site for Mary Bigsby Cory yet William then began another relationship with Mary’s unmarried sister Harriet Eliza (Lizzie) Bigsby (1833-1894) who lived with her father in Brighton. We learnt that it was at least a very close relationship according to the wealth of letters between Lizzie and her sister-in-law, Hannah Elizabeth Billiatt, and less complimentary letters between the latter and her mother, Elizabeth Billiatt. The source of this information was Paul Andrew Bigsby-Chamberlin. The 1881 census found William living at 1 Caledonia Place, Clifton, Bristol. He was 52 and living with his wife Elizabeth M Cory, age 50, born in Ansley, Hertfordshire and his stepson Edward C Webster age 15. Unable to find a death on the Free BMD site for Mary Bigsby Cory, I searched for his first wife, Louisa A Cory. We know that Louisa was still alive in 1874, from the will of her uncle Adderley Howard who provided for her by leaving her a fifty pounds annuity to be paid in two half-yearly payments, for her separate use free from marital control and upon her sole receipt of the same. Before the 1882 Married Women’s Property Act a woman’s property bcame her husband’s on marriage. In the 1891 census, Louisa Cory, age 62, born in The Strand, London, was living in Bromley, Kent as a border. The only death found for Louisa A Cory was in the June qtr 1896 aged 67 (Maidstone 2a 400). Further confirmation of her outliving William is the record of her death in 1896 at Maidstone lunatic asylum. In 1997 Michael Cory obtained a copy of William Gillett Cory’s will dated 17 Sep 1883 which was proved on 20 Nov 1884. A quote from the will index says he was ‘formerly of 1 Caledonia Place, Clifton but late of 27 West Mall, Clifton in the city of Bristol, MD.’ It was proved in Bristol by William Howard Cory of the parish of Nailsea in Somerset, a surgeon, who was his son and one of the Executors with ‘his half brother Guy Chamberlyn Cory son of Mrs. Alfred Wrench, who was a minor, on 20 Nov 1884. “......I hereby give and bequeath unto my three children by my first wife viz: Louisa (Mrs Grosmith) William Howard and Alice and to my three children by Mrs Alfred Wrench born in France viz: Guy Chamberlain, Mary and Rose or unto as many as may survive me..’ Effects: £4523.16s.9d. No mention of any Mrs Corys! William Howard Cory was granted the administration on 27 June 1896 of the estate of Louisa Ann Cory of the lunatic asylum Maidstone, widow, who died 1 May 1896. This was his mother. So you can see that the public records gave us the framework and the wills fleshed it out but we needed correspondence from three different sources to sort this family out. Writing about someone’s life helps to spot if there is something missing or not quite right. With so many places to look on the internet it’s well worth seeing if you can add something to your family history. Does the mention of computers or the Internet switch you off? Be brave and have a go! Even if you don’t have a computer or have never used one you can get help accessing the internet at your local library or record office and truthfully once you have been shown the way you’ll be amazed at what you can do. As always when you set off to do any research, write down as much information as possible about those that you are looking for before you sit down at the keyboard. A good place to start looking for your ancestors is the 1901 census at www.census.pro.gov.uk. You can also look at our own Cory Society website at www.corysociety.org.uk and click onto the Sites of Interest page. You will find some helpful suggestions of where to continue your internet searches. If you find anything interesting let me know!

Using the Internet to Further your Research by Margaret Goffin

The Coreys in the North East By Robert Joseph Burrell-Corey

Born in 1931 at No 81 Sea Road, Fulwell, Sunderland, I was fortunate to spend a very happy early childhood with my older brother Kenneth (Ken) and my baby brother Arthur.

Fulwell in those days was still quite rural in character, in spite of being on the outskirts of a busy industrial shipbuilding town and retained many old village features. The coastal seaside resorts of Roker and Seaburn lay less than a mile away, offering fun and healthy play areas with

our parents. Our only photograph of baby Arthur was taken on one such happy day at the beach. Sadly Arthur died, just three years old of a painful infection caused by streptococci, the same bacteria as scarlet fever, called erysipelas. Our very young parents were devastated. I remember, although only a child myself, the sadness and the funeral, the large black carriage with the glass framed casket carrier fitted to the rear, and Arthur’s little coffin being lifted in by two large black clad horsemen in top hats. It will be observed, he is still loved and not forgotten.

We were blessed with the birth in 1938 of our youngest brother Ronald (Ron) a most delightful boy, never a wrong word, never a selfish act and a great joy to our parents, brother Ken and myself.

During my formative years, and like other young lads, I had various after school pocket money jobs, delivering newspapers etc and, a great job at the time, delivering groceries for a local grocer using a bike with the big box frame at the front. Great fun and paid for it! However, when I began my apprenticeship as a joiner, I secured this delivery job for Ron. This was to change the whole course of his life. Ron took to the grocery trade like the proverbial duck to water, beginning by working in the store, acquiring trade and academic qualifications and starting his own shop, progressing onto processing and manufacturing foods - very successful! Ron towered over Ken and me in intellect and achievement and by-passed most of his contemporaries. Once again, Ken and I were robbed of a loving brother, for he died just sixty years old from cancer. By this time Mum and Dad had passed on so were spared further genuine sadness.

I had also progressed through my trade, gaining experience and qualifications en-route, completing my National Service and helping Dad with the family taxi cab business. Our speciality was weddings, and I have lost count of the number of friends and acquaintances for whom I drove their future wife or husband to their wedding ceremony. Sadly I hear that some are no longer with us and others parted, but as Dad would jokingly tell them - Burrell’s Taxis could not offer any guarantee or refund should the marriage be short term!

I have had the good fortune to acquire skills which have enabled me to work in senior management and have overseen the development of a variety of housing and civil engineering projects but my greatest achievement was to win the hand of my lovely and loving wife Elizabeth. We have loved and cared for one another in the most delightful and trusting way - much to the amazement and puzzlement of friends, relations and contemporaries.

We married in 1950 and over a ten-year period were blessed with the birth of four lovely children, three girls and a boy. Our oldest daughter Alaine has two daughters, Lesley-Anne and Sally. Sadly their father died quite young and Alaine has worked very hard to raise them both. She worked for many years for British Gas in middle management and left after their change to Trans-Co. She now has a very responsible and demanding job overseeing health and safety for the corporate well-being of the Volvo Co UK Truck and Bus Hire and Maintenance.

Vivienne, our second daughter is two years younger than Alaine and has no children. She was branch manager of one of the last remaining building societies in our local county town. As a result of promotion she now travels visiting other branches for audits and trouble shooting. Lesley-Anne, our youngest daughter, born four years after Vivienne, is very happily married with two sons, Timothy and Gregory and lives near Rugby. Lesley is a qualified beauty therapist. Her husband Michael is self-employed in design and development and is currently working in Sweden.

Robert Joseph is our last, born in 1960, and has followed me into the construction industry. Elizabeth and I are so pleased with his progress, a splendid young man. Happily married to his wife Julie, he lives in a very old house in a village not too far away. He has also achieved senior management status and is currently overseeing housing developments in the Tyne-side area. Julie and Rob have no children and are not saddened by this fact as his Mam and I are, for being my

Arthur Burrell-Corey 1933-36

Myself, aged 17

Our daughters from

left to right Vivienne,

Lesley, Alaine with our son

Robert

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only son the Burrell-Corey succession from me, will end.

We have lived in the village of Barton in North Yorkshire for over thirty years. We are members of Richmond Golf Club and Richmond Camera Club and have many good friends, allowing us a very interesting and social life style.

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Other stories about the Burrell-Corey in the North-East are in Newsletters 26 and 27 .

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You might be forgiven as this is a December newsletter for thinking that the streamer heading this article is a Christmas decoration but it is in fact what DNA strands look like. The test results I receive from Relative Genetics, who process our samples, are shown as numbered coloured blocks representing the alleles at the sites which make up our DNA and these are sorted in matching groups.

Relative Genetics in line with other Genealogy DNA firms has now increased the number of sites they test from 24 to 37 allele numbers because this finds the modal type, also called the ancestral type. Several American Corys have paid to have their own DNA sample retested at all 37 sites as the extra information will help answer queries about country of origin but because of the further cost involved our Society will still only be able to test at 24 sites. We reported in Newsletter 24 that the Nobel Prize Winner Elias

James Corey actually descends from Lebanese immigrants called Khori, and that in Arabic Khoury means shepherd or farmer. I think we Corys in Britain take for granted that our ancestors were born here but can we still take for granted that we know which part of the country or line our ancestors originate from?

As reported in previous newsletters, DNA testing has revealed that Colin Cory of Harpole, Northampton and William Cory from a Kent line are closely related to Art Corey and Earl Cory of America who are both descendants of Thomas Cory of Chelmsford USA, a 17th century immigrant. Another close match to this Harpole line is William H Curry who sent details of his allele numbers to us when we first started our DNA project. According to Oxford Ancestors who tested his DNA, they show a Danelaw connection. Art Corey the DNA Co-ordinator for the Cory Family Society of America, is hoping to include samples of DNA from Corrie males; many with that name originate from Scotland and Ireland and it would be interesting to see how they compare.

New member, Peter Cory expressed interest in being a volunteer for the DNA project. He has traced his line back to Harpole but with a choice of two couples, both called John and Mary, (one married in 1772 and the other in 1774) he has reached a ‘brick wall’ which we can all sympathise with. He hoped DNA would help him find out which couple he is descended from. I thought that I would be unable to take up his offer as by the time I received it I had already used the money set aside on four tests but the Cory Family Society of America very kindly stepped in and paid for Peter’s test. The four DNA samples I selected were provided by Corys from lines that had not been tested or where more samples were needed to make a comparison. DNA has proved Northampton is the origin of several lines and there are other areas for which many documented lines

exist for which DNA might provide new insights. These are Devon, Cornwall and Norfolk. Tests taken previously from West Country DNA Cory volunteers were from Holsworthy, Poundstock, Pyworthy and West Putford lines. This time, we were thrilled when a DNA sample taken from John Albert Cory of the North Petherwin line in Devon matched up with John Philip Cory of the Poundstock line in Cornwall. Anthony Cory, the son of our Founder Member Vernon Cory* was another volunteer. This family line is from the West Cornwall Crowan/

Camborne area and their earliest ancestor was Henry Curry who married Mary Hensley in 1751 (the names Corry, Corey, Curry and Cory all appear in this line) yet Anthony’s DNA has matched at all but one site to John Albert and John Philip!

In Norfolk as many as 17 lines are documented as descending from Bramerton including Michael Cory, our Honorary Archivist, who was one of our first DNA volunteers. Charles Cory who also descends from the Bramerton line through the Cambridge/Bury St Edmunds branch volunteered to be part of the test. Hoping to find a connection with these I persuaded my uncle, Arthur

Burrell-Cory, another Norfolk Cory, whose line has no Bramerton connection but starts with a marriage between Mary Burrell and Thomas Cory in 1815, to give a DNA sample too. The results were a big surprise, - the sample which Charles gave matched Colin, Bill, Art and Earl, - all from the Harpole line in Northamptonshire! However, Arthur Burrell-Cory’s DNA sample did not match the other two Norfolk samples and was completely different from all other Cory samples so far.

Art Corey, who is the DNA Co-ordinator for the Cory Family Society of America, is encouraging all new members to take a DNA test to determine their line at the outset and ensure their future research time is not spent barking up the wrong tree! Each 24 site sample costs £88 (subject to the $ exchange rate) which is good value, particularly if you would have to pay travel costs to further your research. If you would like one of your Cory males tested now, (and don’t want to risk waiting!) paying volunteers would be much appreciated. Leaflets about the tests are available on request which explain the sampling process, including privacy issues etc. We would welcome volunteers, particularly from the west country lines not yet tested, for our waiting list. The results are exciting and sometimes astounding!

*Vernon Cory’s obituary was in the August newsletter DNA reports in Newsletter numbers 19, 20, 26, 31, 33

DNA Surprises Margaret Goffin, DNA Co-ordinator

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In the April issue (No 33), I explained that following the publication by the GOONS [Guild of One-Name Studies] of articles on surnames in its journal, our committee reconsidered our registration with the GOONS and had reached the conclusion that Corey, Corie and Corye are variants of Cory and any other spelling is a deviant. It is therefore our duty, as a Society, to collect all references to Cory, Corey, Corie and Corye and I welcome contributions from ALL members. I hasten to add that supplying records is not a condition of your membership but perhaps you have found references of no interest to you which could be of great significance to someone else! By concentrating on Cory and the variants, one should not forget that our Cory families can also be found in the deviants of which I give a few examples below: COERY My thanks to Michael R Cory for an excellent example of variations in the spelling of the surname. His ancestor the Rev James Cory (1733-1793), Vicar of Sherford and Kettlestone in Norfolk baptised his own children – they are recorded in the register in three different ways – some Cory, others Corey or Coery. No one can claim that he was uneducated - he also held the post of Headmaster of the Perse School, Cambridge! CORE I was searching the 1861 census for my ancestor James Cory at a Rotherhithe address gleaned from a certificate but alas - as so often happens – the family had moved. Idly scanning the pages as I rewound the film, “James Cor ……..” popped out of the film - as it does when one is tuned to searching for a particular surname - under the name Core! I must admit that I had previously considered this deviant unlikely! With another ‘e’ yes, but Core does not read as a two syllable word. Had this been indexed, I would have had to look under Core to find it. CORRY Several people when speaking of the ‘Cory’ family pronounce the name ‘Corry, rhyming with ‘sorry’. Therefore it is understandable that this variant occurs in census returns, for instance, where the spoken word is interpreted by the enumerator. Our chairman’s ancestor is recorded as Richard Corry, barrister, of Langdon Court, Wembury, Devon in the 1901 census. The Rev Thomas James Cory, a Bible Christian Minister, was the subject of Kate Pearce’s interesting article in the December issue 2003 on his voyage to Australia. A website detailing the list of passengers on the ship Cuzco records him as Corry when he emigrated to Australia in 1877.

CARY Cary has to be considered - especially in older records - not because it is a variant of Cory but because lower case ‘a’ and ‘o’ can be so easily confused. Even as late as the 1901 census, Cory families appear as Cary in St Juliot,

Cornwall.

CURY Another instance in the 1901 Census returns – this time Cury – for Jean Hayes’s ancestor Charles Cory at Barnstaple, Devon. Jean tells me that it was written in beautiful copperplate but with a slight gap in the top of the ‘o’, the transcriber reading it as a ‘u’. All the people below were recorded as 'do' (ditto) so there was not another chance to see the surname.

CURRY Many families in the counties of Devon and Cornwall - especially western Cornwall – can be found under Curry. This includes the family of Vernon Cory, one of our founder members whose family was in the Camborne/Crowan area.

COZIE The index of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) wills went online last year and images of the wills were available at £3 per will, currently £3.50! This facility provided by the The National Archives (the renamed Public Record Office) enabled me to check my extracts from the printed volumes of wills indexes. Access to the period 1801-1852 was previously available in the original form only, ie large annual volumes of manuscript calendars under initial letter only. Thus, one had to search through the complete list of ‘C’s to find Cory and variants – a time consuming task of which I had completed half. The online list filled the gap and I obtained four more wills. But where was the 1583 record of Richard Corie of Whalesborough, Marhamchurch, Cornwall whose will I had purchased in the early days of my research? By searching for ‘Cornwall’ rather than a surname I found him as Richard Cozie! Taking another look at this will I could see why this had happened. Are there other Corys out there hidden under Cozie? Should you not be able to find an ancestor or relative, you may be successful by widening the search - take a look at all the possibilities. The tables overleaf demonstrates some of the spellings which may need to be considered when researching Cory - I do not claim that all of these are connected with Cory families! Taken mainly from the IGI, I make no apologies for using this source as it is probably the most widely used ‘finding aid’. And it is only a finding aid - relevant records should always be verified in parish registers before a tree can be considered anything but a 'draft'!

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CORY – its variants and deviants by Ida Birch

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CORY – its variants and deviants

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Name Date Event Parents/spouse Parish County Comments

Coary Esther 12 Oct 1764 Bur St Stephens Norwich

Norfolk

Coery Arthur 15 Oct 1761 Bp Arthur/Mary St Martin at Palace Norwich

Norfolk

Coray Mary Thomas

20 Dec 1761 23 oct 1733

Bp Mar

Francis/Mary Elizabeth Pils

Bradworthy Hackford

Devon Norfolk

Core George Barbara

01 Oct 1564 12 Sep 1586

Bp Bp

Thomas/Margerie Thomas

Bovey Tracey St Gregory’s Norwich

Devon Norfolk

Coree John Mary

24 Jul 1671 16 Sep 1687

Bp Mar

John Emanuell Sanford

Cantley South Molton

Norfolk Devon

Also Thomas 1675 plus Cory

Corey* Hugh William

30 Jan 1758 02 Nov 1760

Bp Bp

John/Margaret Henry/

Hartland Camborne

Devon Cornwall

Cori Ann 04 Feb 1665 Bp William/Jude St Martin at Oak Norwich

Norfolk Also Cory and Coory

Corie* Dorothy Edmund

02 Oct 1686 27 Mar 1653

Bp Bp

Samuel/Allice William/Anne

Holsworthy St Gregory’s Norwich

Devon Norfolk

Corray William 12 Dec 1784 Mar Sarah Johnson Fylingdales Yorkshire Corry too

Corre James 03 Dec 1727 Bp Zacharias/ Camborne Cornwall Or Curry

Corree Margarytt 12 Jul 1576 Bp - Moorby Lincoln Also Corry

Correy Joane 09 Apr 1567 Mar John Stevens Holsworthy Devon

Corrie Margerie Edmund

09 Dec 1602 17 Dec 1654

Bp Bur

Richarde/ William

Marhamchurch St Gregory’s Norwich

Cornwall Norfolk

Corry Richard Saml Nickolus

25 Jun 1615 22 Sep 1681 28 Nov 1756

Bp Bp Bp

Jo Jo/ Richard/Prudence

Bodmin Launcells Jacobstow

Cornwall Cornwall Cornwall

Corrye Degorye John Florence

02 Mar 1597 11 Mar 1597 04 May 1647

Bp Bp Bp

Ciprian Henrye Richerd

Marhamchurch Marhamchurch Bodmin

Cornwall Cornwall Cornwall

Corye* Dorothie Mary Grace Richard Dorothye

08 Jul 1602 16 Nov 1606 26 Feb 1631 20 Jun 1640 25 Jun 1614

Bp Bp Bp Bp Bp

John Thomas/ John/Phillip Richard/ Thomas/Elizabeth

Harpole Bodmin Marhamchurch Holsworthy Sutcombe Burlingham St Peter

Cornwall Cornwall Devon Devon Norfolk

Coure John 29 Nov 1696 Bp John/Ann Bideford Devon

Courey Richard 02 May 1681 Bp John/ Chumleigh Devon Mostly Ireland

Couri Henry William

14 Dec 1851 Bp William/Hannah Levington Suffolk Mainly Scotland

Courie Emily Harriet

03 May 1848 Bp William Byron/Emilia

Holy Trinity Paddington

London Almost all Scotland

Courrie Francis (female)

07 Nov 1630 Bp Thomas/Elizabeth St Gabriel Fenchurch London The rest Scotland

Courry(e) James 06 Jul 1818 Bp Charles/Mary Morrice St Wes Devonport

Devon siblings Curry and Currey

Coury* John 12 Jan 1765 Bp Robert/Ann Durston Somerset Sibling Cory

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Name Date Event Parents/spouse Parish County Comments

Cure Richard Susanna

28 Nov 1672 15 Mar 1686

Mar Bp

Anne Dru /Mary

St Breage Bradford

Cornwall Devon

Curie Samuel 17 Nov 1717 Bp Thom/Mary St Peter Mancroft Norfolk Norwich also Corye

Curray Wm 29 Dec 1746 Mar Esther Dixon Fylingdales Yorkshire Corry too

Curre Margaret 19 Jun 1603 Mar Alexander Bleare St Sav. Dartmouth Devon

Curree Dorytie 14 Jul 1633 Bp Clement/ St John, Newcastle upon Tyne

Northum-berland

Currey Wilmote Margaret Nicholas

09 Oct 1593 18 Apr 1610 03 Aug 1645

Mar Mar Bp

Thomas Marten Benjamin Bligh Richard/Anne

Holsworthy Holsworthy Morwenstow

Cornwall Devon Cornwall

Curri Eliza 06 Aug 1832 Bp Richard/Sarah St John the E Lambeth

Surrey Also Cory Mainly Scot

Currie Jane 01 Mar 1829 Bp William/Mary Morrice St Wes Devon

Curry Antipas Elizabeth Parmenas Warren

07 Aug 1625 Nov 1633 07 Aug 1816

Bp Bp Bp

Anthony/Elizabeth Tristram/Jane Samuel/Grace

Holsworthy Holsworthy Holsworthy

Devon Devon Devon

Currye Marye John

16 Aug 1561 03 Jul 1575

Bp Bp

John/ Marhamchurch Holsworthy

Cornwall Devon

Cury(e) John 09 Aug 1618 Bp Willim St Gluvius Cornwall Cury

Carry(e) Josias Henry

21 May 1643 Jun 1752

Bp Bp

Emanuell Henry/Mary

Tetcott Crowan

Devon Cornwall

Carrye Carry

Cary James 23 Oct 1776 Mar Cath Stoyle Little Torrington Devon

Caure Margaret 25 Dec 1775 Bp James/Elisabeth St Leonards Shoreditch

London Also Curey and Curry

Caurey George 07 Aug 1743 Bp William/Elizabeth Lanteglos by Camelford

Cornwall The rest Leicester

Caurie Scotland

Caury Jane 03 Jul 1637 Bp William/Mary Coldwaltham Sussex

Cawrey Nott 12 Oct 1729 Bp /Jane Gorran Cornwall Mainly Leicester

Cawrie Isbell 28 Nov 1561 Bp John/ East Newlyn Cornwall

Cawry William 01 Jun 1664 Mar Margrett Swayne Shepshed Leicester

Membership Renewals

This issue includes a form for renewing your membership to the Cory Society. We hope that as soon as you have finished reading this newsletter you will complete the form and return it with your cheque or draft to our Membership Secretary,

Rosemary Gitsham

The subscription fee remains the same as in previous years at : UK £12; US $27; Canadian $40; Australian $40; NZ $43. Overseas members may pay instead, £15 Sterling by bank draft via UK branch of bank. One membership subscription may include all people living at the same address, listed by the main member's name, receiving only one set of papers and having one vote.

Your subscription contributes to ongoing research about the Cory name and pays for the publications, newsletters etc to keep you informed about new discoveries and Cory family genealogy, as well as to provide an advisory service to assist members and others interested in Corys with their research. So please put pen to paper and join us again in 2005.

Wishing you a happy and peaceful New Year.

The Cory Society does not agree necessarily with the statements and opinions in this publication

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: General enquiries e-mail: cory@one-name.org Officers: - Chairman Mark Hassall, Hon. Secretary and Contact for Links and Publicity Jean Hayes, Treasurer and Norfolk Co-ordinator David Bedford-Groom, Ex Officio Archivist and Devon/Cornwall/S.Wales Co-ordinator Ida Birch, Editor and Webmaster and DNA Co-ordinator Margaret Goffin Others:- Rosemary Holloway, Honorary Founder Archivist Michael R. Cory, Kent Co-ordinator and Publications William Cory, Northants Co-ordinator Marilyn Cory, Australian Co-ordinator Pam Cory, Membership Secretary Rosemary Gitsham,

MEMBERSHIP NEWS.

NEW MEMBERS: We are pleased to welcome, Robert and Stella Cory, Bleadon Hill, Weston-super-Mare. Cardiff Line: Richard Cory born 1799 and Sarah Woollacott. Peter Cory of La Nucia, 03530, Alicante, Spain, of the Harpole line.

APOLOGIES to Martha Goetzen of Gretna, Manitoba, in Canada for spelling her surname incorrectly in issue No 33.

REJOIN: Welcome back to Brenda Miller, of Old Duston, Northampton. Brenda, with her brother Colin Cory and his wife Marilyn, helped organise the Northampton Weekend for the Cory Family Society of America visit this June. The Cory Family Society of America is holding its next AGM and family gathering in June 2005 in New England and plan to include a visit to Salem, MA where Giles Cory, originally from Northampton, fell victim to the witch trials. Members of our Society have been invited to join this fascinating visit and several of our committee have already made their travel plans. Members wishing to join this Cory gathering in America will need to make their own travel arrangements and hotel bookings. If you are interested in this Cory gathering, please contact our Hon. Secretary or the Secretary of the Cory Family Society of America for more information.

DEATH:

Eleanor Margaret Cory (née McHale) wife of Bill Cory, our Kent Co-ordinator, died suddenly on Monday 8th November after a recent operation. The funeral was at 2 p.m on Thursday 18th November at St Matthais Church, Leavenheath and Rosemary Gitsham attended the funeral on behalf of the Society. The church was full with village friends and family. The service was taken by the vicar and two clergymen from London who had known Bill and Eleanor in their youth. Bill and Eleanor had been married 46 years in July this year and took great pride in their daughters, Faith Elizabeth and Rosalind Anne and their grandchildren George Cory Darroch, and Rose who was born this year. Bill gave a splendid account during the service of Eleanor’s ancestors and more recent events and very bravely managed to include some humour in his narrative. Bill requested flowers or a donation to the RNLI. Eleanor was buried at a private ceremony on Friday 26th November in a family plot at Deal, Kent. Bill is spending Christmas at his daughter Faith’s home in New Zealand. Eleanor accompanied Bill on various Cory trips and to the AGM. We will miss her. Our thoughts are with Bill and his family at this time of dreadful shock. May they be strengthened by the knowledge that Eleanor is at peace and not having to endure more pain.