Cory Family Society Newsletter

The Cory Family Newsletter is now published three times annually for the surname Cory , Corey. etc.

Vol.20, No.3 The Cory Family Web pages July, 2005 www.coryfamsoc.com(US)

CORY FAMILY SOCIETY SOCIETY OFFICERS MEETING June 22 – 26, 2005 President: Fred Corey Tewksbury, Massachusetts 12203 No desert Sage Unit B By Christina Cory Fountain Hills, AZ 85268 Office: [email protected]

Vice President & Web Master:Earl Cory 563 Westley Avenue Oakland, CA 04606-1062 E-mail: [email protected]

Vice President & Editor: Art Corey 636 Cheyenne Dr., No. 27

Fort Collins, CO 80525-1571 E-mail: [email protected] Corys view Witchcraft Victims’ Memorial Phone: 970-482-1636 – Danvers, Massachusetts

Secretary: Carolyn Corey The Cory Family Society held their Box 580, St. Egnatius, MT 59865-0580 annual meeting in Tewksbury, E-mail: [email protected] Massachusetts from the 23rd of June to the 26th, 2005. We had a total of 32 Treasurer: James M. Corey participants! The week was filled with 13715 Rosetree Court activities related to the Cor[e]y’s and Chantilly, VA 20151-3369 American history. It should be noted E-mail:[email protected] that we were invaded by 11 cousins and Phone: 202-781-2699 Office friends from across “The Pond”. But 703-709-0699 Home alas, they retreated after 5 days!

We welcomed all with open arms and a daily meeting at the English Pub (the local hangout at the Holiday Inn in Tewksbury). Kathleen [Thomas Cory] Reed of Maine along with her executive

1 committee made a point of filling each Saturday, June 25, 2005: “Battles” day with many activities for the annual Saturday morning we were bussed to the meeting. The following summarizes the Chelmsford (pronounced chams-ferd) adventures of “The Cor[e]y Clan”. Garrison House. We were greeted by very knowledgeable guides of the Wednesday, June 22, 2005: “Welcome” Chelmsford Historical Society that talked In the evening, we socialized at The Pub about life in a political garrison in the where we met new Corys, friends of early 1700s. From there we went to Corys, and renewed old Cory friendships. Boston, The North End. We visited The We also received information for the Old North Church (of Paul Revere fame) week’s activity. This included an agenda where a lantern was hung to indicate the and a packet of background material “Red Coats” were coming (Longfellow compiled by Earl [Thomas Cory] Cory. If “… one if by sea, two if by land”). The anyone is interested in a copy of the next stop included self-guided tours of packet, please contact Earl Cory. Bunker Hill and Old Ironsides.

Thursday, June 23, 2005: “Salem Day” Sunday, June 26, 2005: “Taking Care of The day was spent visiting the Salem area Business” and sites associated with the Witch Our annual business meeting was held Hysteria (a.k.a. Witch Hunt). This Sunday morning. Seventeen people included the following activities: Salem attended the meeting. For details refer to Village Witchcraft Victims Memorial in the meeting summary. Danvers; an excursion to the Rebecca Nurse Homestead and recreation of the Salem Village Meeting House in Danvers; SUMMARY OF MINUTES live reenactment of Salem Witch Trials at the Witch Dungeon Museum in Salem; Thank You to Kathleen Corey Reed self guided walk-about of Salem; and A warm thank you to Kathleen Corey driving around Peabody looking for the Reed for planning and executing the location of Giles Cory’s last known annual meeting. Our days were filled residence. with activities and meals from Wednesday, June 22nd to Sunday, June Friday, June 24, 2005: “Shot Heard 26th. Round the World” Friday morning we roamed around the The Richard Cory Family Chelmsford Forefathers Burying Ground. The Cory Family Society sends their A few were successful in finding Cory prayers and wishes to The Richard Cory headstones. They took pictures and Family. Last year they attended the promised to share them with us. The meeting in Harpole, England where they remainder of the day was “Revolution were well remembered. He has recently Day”. We started at Concord where our been diagnosed with cancer and is guide, Joseph L. “Joel” Andrews met us. undergoing chemo and radiation therapy. We traveled the route from Lexington to It was decided that The Cory Society will Concord, reviewing the history that led send a note to the family. up to the battle of Lexington and Concord where the Colonists fought the “Red Newsletter Coats”. This included driving through There was a discussion about the number Minute Man National Park. of newsletters that should be sent out each year. A decision was made to publish 2 three newsletters annually. Many thanks identify the John of Southold, Long to Fred Corey and his company for the Island line. The cost of a DNA test is $155 volunteer efforts of copying, collating and for a 26 sites/measurements test. mailing the newsletters. It costs about $110 for each mailing. The past DNA Discussion by Fred Corey: Where newsletters are posted on The Cory are we going with respect to DNA? Is it Family Society website going to change into an archaeological (www.coryfamsoc.com). It was proposed project? This is just something to by Marilyn Cory that we send out a investigate and think about. simple letter to ask if the member wants to receive the newsletter via e-mail or $400 Donation to the Cory Society postal service. This will be added to the We intend to help the UK Cory Society as next newsletter much as we can. Their information will greatly benefit us. Earl Cory motioned Fred Corey has The Boston Transcript of that another $400 be donated to the Cory the Corys (a genealogy document). He Society. Galen Moore seconded the will send this to Earl to post on the motion. It passed. website. All are encouraged to send information to the web master to post on Addition to the Newsletter and Website: the web site. A request for a donation to DNA research will be added to the newsletters and DNA report by Art Corey and Ida Birch website. Also we will encourage people to The Cory Society [UK] Report – Ida participate in the DNA project. We need Birch: Ida Birch read The Cory Society to set the society DNA goals and [UK] DNA report written by Margaret encourage DNA testing. Goffin. The American Cory Family Society helped a lot with respect to Officers funding and contacts. When funding is President: Fred Corey expressed a limited, it is wise to be very selective when concern about his ability to devote the choosing a candidate. England is time needed to preside as President. We currently looking for a male Cory whose are trying to encourage Mark Hester to descendants are from Bristol. It was rejoin us as an officer. recommended that we add the report to the next newsletter. It is requested that Newsletter Editor: Art nominated an electronic copy be sent to those that Kathleen Reed as the newsletter editor have elected to receive their newsletter with a second from Brenda Miller. Vote: electronically. Unanimous. Art will be responsible for the next newsletter, after that, Kathleen The Cory Family Society Report [USA] – will begin getting out three newsletters Art Corey: There was a question about annually. Art Corey will continue as how can we depend on these results. Art DNA project supervisor/coordinator. said that we submitted duplicate DNA to 3 different laboratories. The results were Next Meeting identical. So far, 36 people have had their Next Proposed USA Meeting: We will DNA tested; 22 from USA and 14 from look for someone in the DC area to host a the UK (5 were tested this year). meeting in the Fall 2006.

Discussion followed to identify which line Next English Meting: The English are and who to test for DNA. We still need to planning a trip to Kent, England (South 3 East from London) around the weekend surnames, including Cory and Corey. of May 20th, 2006. Currently, the date is Unfortunately, this is a problem that not finalized. those of us addicted to searching our roots must learn to live with, as Ida Birch, Miscellaneous editor of the English Cory Family Harpole: A special thanks to the Harpole Newsletter, has shown in articles group for last years meeting. It is still the presented in her April and December best ever meeting for the Cory Family 2004 Newsletters. Society. For the benefit of our new members, in Honorary Memberships: There was a particular, the article representing much motion by Fred Cory, to make the research on Ida’s part are reproduced Richard Cory Family of California, Mary below. Cory, of Harrogate and Michael and Frances Cory of Dorset, England CORY - Its Variants and Deviants by Ida honorary members of the Cory Family Birch ----Printed in the April 2004 issue of Society. The motion was seconded by Art The English Cory Society Newsletter Corey. The motion passed. Variants and deviants? I imagine the reader Dues will be increased to $12 annually being at ease with Cory variants but except for those who have already paid in deviants? What is a Cory deviant? advance. Dues Paid: The following people The GOONS with which we are registered paid dues at the meeting: has been carrying articles in its Journal of One-Name Studies on the subject of names Ida Birch paid $10; William Cory and how similar names should be viewed. [Harpole] paid $20 for 2 years; Brenda Derek Palgrave, in his article in the January- Miller [Harpole] paid $20 for 2 years. March 2004 issue, divided the variations on (2006 – 2007) his name into variants and ‘deviants’, for want of a better description. Therefore, I Adjournment: The meeting adjourned at undertook the task on behalf of our 12:10pm. committee of looking at possible ways Cory appears in records of all kinds and which we consider to be variants.

SURNAME VARIATIONS I drew up the table below to represent the By Art Corey different combinations of letters which

sound like Cory. The table could be Typically beginners investigating their reproduced with the initial letter ‘C’ family history confine their search of replaced by ‘K’. This would include documents bearing their surname as KORY, originally registered with the spelled by their parents. They make the Guild of One Name Studies (Goons) along assumption that other spellings must with those marked with an asterisk in the refer to folks unrelated to their own table above. ancestors. Experienced genealogists have learned that attributing too much weight Of course, this caused me to trawl the to a particular surname spelling is a records, correlating current and auld, with mistake. care! I do not claim that the table of names is complete as more turned up as I searched the A variety of spellings are likely to be records! associated with almost all Anglo-Saxon 4 Possible spellings by the scribe or arising from the transcription of the written word, whether clearly written or not.

CORE COREY* CORI CORIE* CORREY CORRIE CORRY CORRYE CORY* CORYE* COURE COUREY COURI COURIE COURREY COURRIE COURRY COURRY COURY* COURYE CURE CUREY CURI CURIE CURREY CURRIE CURRY CURRYE CURY CURYE CARE CAREY CARI CARIE CARREY CARRIE CARRY CARRYE CARY CARYE CAURE CAURY CAURI CAURIE CAURRY CAURRIE CAURRY CAURRYE CAURY CAURYE CAWRE CAWREY CAWRI CAWRIE CAWRREY CAWRRIE CAWRRY CAWRRYE CAWRY CAWRYE

The records searched fall into two categories: 1851 census disk for Devon, Norfolk and Warwickshire 1) A wide span of dates: 1881 census from Surname Atlas, software available from Stephen Archer IGI on Familysearch web-site. Most of us are 1901 census from PRO web-site - extractions familiar with this source but it has its by Margaret Goffin and Ida Birch drawbacks in that (10 search to an exact 2000 London Telephone Directory spelling restricts the choice to no more detail than “British Isles”. Many are recorded as The Variants 200+ which suffices for our requirements in The committee has concluded that the this study. variants of Cory are Corey, Corie, and Corye, and Jean Hayes has amended our registration Cornwall FHS composite data-base from with the GOONS. [We have dropped Kory their web-site: this includes sources mainly included in members’ research and from parish registers, monumental and Coury as these have not always been inscriptions and census returns. included in members research and

numbers are small. While the Cory

2) Specific dates: Society had these listed, others were precluded from registering these names.]

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Name Date Event Parents/spouse Parish County Comments Esther 12 Oct 1764 Bur St Stephens Norfolk oary Norwich Arthur 15 Oct 1761 Bp Arthur/Mary St Martin at Norfolk oery Palace Norwich Mary 20 Dec 1761 Bp Francis/Mary Bradworthy Devon oray Thomas 23 Oct 1733 Mar Elizabeth Pils Hackford Norfolk George 01 Oct 1564 Bp Thomas/Margerie Bovey Tracey Devon ore Barbara 12 Sep 1586 Bp Thomas St Gregory’s Norfolk Norwich Coree John 24 Jul 1671 Bp John Cantley Norfolk Also Mary 16 Sep 1687 Mar Emanuell South Molton Devon Thomas Sanford 1675 plus Cory Corey* Hugh 30 Jan 1758 Bp John/Margaret Hartland Devon William 02 Nov 1760 Bp Henry/ Camborne Cornwall Cori Ann 04 Feb 1665 Bp William/Jude St Martin at Oak Norfolk Also Cory Norwich and Coory Corie* Dorothy 02 Oct 1686 Bp Samuel/Allice Holsworthy Devon Edmund 27 Mar 1653 Bp William/Anne St Gregory’s Norfolk Norwich 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 09 Dec 1602 Bp Richarde/ Marhamchurch Cornwall Edmund 17 Dec 1654 Bur William St Gregory’s Norfolk Norwich Corry Richard 25 Jun 1615 Bp Jo Bodmin Cornwall Saml 22 Sep 1681 Bp Jo/ Launcells Cornwall Nickolus 28 Nov 1756 Bp Richard/Prudenc Jacobstow Cornwall e Corrye Degorye 02 Mar 1597 Bp Ciprian Marhamchurch Cornwall John 11 Mar 1597 Bp Henrye Marhamchurch Cornwall Florence 04 May 1647 Bp Richerd Bodmin Cornwall Corye* Harpole Dorothie 08 Jul 1602 Bp John Bodmin Cornwall Mary 16 Nov 1606 Bp Thomas/ Marhamchurch Cornwall Grace 26 Feb 1631 Bp John/Phillip Holsworthy Devon Richard 20 Jun 1640 Bp Richard/ Sutcombe Devon Dorothye 25 Jun 1614 Bp Thomas/Elizabeth Burlingham St Norfolk Peter

Coure John 29 Nov 1696 Bp John/Ann Bideford Devon Courey Richard 02 May 1681 Bp John/ Chumleigh Devon Mostly Ireland Couri Henry 14 Dec 1851 Bp William/Hannah Levington Suffolk Mainly William Scotland Courie Emily 03 May 1848 Bp William Holy Trinity London Almost all Harriet Byron/Emilia Paddington Scotland Courrie Francis 07 Nov 1630 Bp Thomas/Elizabeth St Gabriel London The rest (female) Fenchurch Scotland Courry James 06 Jul 1818 Bp Charles/Mary Morrice St Wes Devon siblings (e) Devonport Curry and Currey Coury* John 12 Jan 1765 Bp Robert/Ann Durston Somerset Sibling Cory

Cure Richard 28 Nov 1672 Mar Anne Dru St Breage Cornwall Susanna 15 Mar 1686 Bp /Mary Bradford Devon Curie Samuel 17 Nov 1717 Bp Thom/Mary St Peter Mancroft Norfolk Norwich

6 Name Date Event Parents/spouse Parish County Comments also Corye Curray Wm 29 Dec 1746 Mar Esther Dixon Fylingdales Yorkshire Corry too Curre Margaret 19 Jun 1603 Mar Alexander Bleare St Sav. Devon Dartmouth Curree Dorytie 14 Jul 1633 Bp Clement/ St John, Northum- Newcastle upon berland Tyne Currey Wilmote 09 Oct 1593 Mar Thomas Marten Holsworthy Cornwall Margaret 18 Apr 1610 Mar Benjamin Bligh Holsworthy Devon Nicholas 03 Aug 1645 Bp Richard/Anne Morwenstow Cornwall Curri Eliza 06 Aug 1832 Bp Richard/Sarah St John the E Surrey Also Cory Lambeth Mainly Scot Currie Jane 01 Mar 1829 Bp William/Mary Morrice St Wes Devon Curry Antipas 07 Aug 1625 Bp Anthony/Elizabet Holsworthy Devon Elizabeth Nov 1633 Bp h Holsworthy Devon Parmenas 07 Aug 1816 Bp Tristram/Jane Holsworthy Devon Warren Samuel/Grace Currye Marye 16 Aug 1561 Bp John/ Marhamchurch Cornwall John 03 Jul 1575 Bp Holsworthy Devon Cury(e) John 09 Aug 1618 Bp Willim St Gluvius Cornwall Cury

Carry(e Josias 21 May 1643 Bp Emanuell Tetcott Devon Carrye ) Henry Jun 1752 Bp Henry/Mary Crowan Cornwall Carry

Cary James 23 Oct 1776 Mar Cath Stoyle Little Torrington Devon

Caure Margaret 25 Dec 1775 Bp James/Elisabeth St Leonards London Also Shoreditch Curey and Curry Caurey George 07 Aug 1743 Bp William/Elizabeth Lanteglos by Cornwall The rest Camelford 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

In the April issue (No 33), I explained that interest to you which could be of great following the publication by the GOONS significance to someone else! [Guild of One-Name Studies] of articles on surnames in its journal, our committee By concentrating on Cory and the reconsidered our registration with the variants, one should not forget that our GOONS and had reached the conclusion Cory families can also be found in the that Corey, Corie and Corye are variants deviants of which I give a few examples of Cory and any other spelling is a below: deviant. It is therefore our duty, as a Society, to collect all references to Cory, COERY Corey, Corie and Corye and I welcome My thanks to Michael R Cory for an contributions from ALL members. I excellent example of variations in the hasten to add that supplying records is spelling of the surname. His ancestor the not a condition of your membership but Rev James Cory (1733-1793), Vicar of perhaps you have found references of no Sherford and Kettlestone in Norfolk baptised his own children – they are 7 recorded in the register in three different can be so easily confused. Even as late as ways – some Cory, others Corey or the 1901 census, Cory families appear as Coery. No one can claim that he was Cary in St Juliot, Cornwall. uneducated-he also held the post of Headmaster of the Perse School, CURY Cambridge. Another instance in the 1901 Census returns – this time Cury – for Jean CORE Hayes’s ancestor Charles Cory at I was searching the 1861 census for my Barnstaple, Devon. Jean tells me that it ancestor James Cory at a Rotherhithe was written in beautiful copperplate but address gleaned from a certificate but with a slight gap in the top of the ‘o’, the alas - as so often happens – the family had transcriber reading it as a ‘u’. All the moved. Idly scanning the pages as I people below were recorded as 'do' rewound the film, “James Cor ……..” (ditto) so there was not another chance to popped out of the film - as it does when see the surname. one is tuned to searching for a particular surname - under the name Core! I must CURRY admit that I had previously considered Many families in the counties of Devon this deviant unlikely! With another ‘e’ and Cornwall - especially western yes, but Core does not read as a two Cornwall – can be found under Curry. syllable word. Had this been indexed, I This includes the family of Vernon Cory, would have had to look under Core to one of our founder members whose family find it. was in the Camborne/Crowan area.

CORRY COZIE Several people when speaking of the The index of the Prerogative Court of ‘Cory’ family pronounce the name Canterbury (PCC) wills went online last ‘Corry, rhyming with ‘sorry’. Therefore year and images of the wills were it is understandable that this variant available at £3 per will, currently £3.50! occurs in census returns, for instance, This facility provided by the The National where the spoken word is interpreted by Archives (the renamed Public Record the enumerator. Our chairman’s ancestor Office) enabled me to check my extracts is recorded as Richard Corry, barrister, from the printed volumes of wills indexes. of Langdon Court, Wembury, Devon in Access to the period 1801-1852 was the 1901 census. previously available in the original form only, ie, large annual volumes of The Rev Thomas James Cory, a Bible manuscript calendars under initial letter Christian Minister, was the subject of only. Thus, one had to search through Kate Pearce’s interesting article in the the complete list of ‘C’s to find Cory and December issue 2003 on his voyage to variants – a time consuming task of which Australia. A website detailing the list of I had completed half. The online list passengers on the ship Cuzco records him filled the gap and I obtained four more as Corry when he emigrated to Australia wills. But where was the 1583 record of in 1877. Richard Corie of Whalesborough, Marhamchurch, Cornwall whose will I CARY had purchased in the early days of my Cary has to be considered - especially in research? By searching for ‘Cornwall’ older records - not because it is a variant rather than a surname I found him as of Cory but because lower case ‘a’ and ‘o’ Richard Cozie! Taking another look at 8 this will I could see why this had We believe that there were actually two happened. Are there other Corys out brothers and one sister Cory from there hidden under Cozie? Harpole at the time; thus Thomas Cory who married Elizabeth Dunkley in 1538, Should you not be able to find an ancestor Nicholas Cory who married Emma (or or relative, you may be successful by Emily) Dunkley also in 1538, and widening the search - take a look at all the Margaret Cory who married Robert possibilities. Dunkley yet again in 1538.

The table demonstrates some of the Three marriages between two families all spellings which may need to be in the same period, it would seem that considered when researching Cory. I do there may well have been land deals etc. not claim that all of these are connected going on here at this time with the two with Cory families! Taken mainly from families sorting themselves out, however the IGI, I make no apologies for using this we are unable to substantiate that. source as it is probably the most widely used ‘finding aid’. And it is only a We know that the Corys were reasonably finding aid. Relevant records should placed as were the Dunkley family (the always be verified in parish registers Dunkleys originally held Althorp estate before a tree can be considered anything before the Spencer family) but that is all. but a 'draft'! It would be interesting to find out more of this early vintage. Harpole Roots

I received email from Eunice Brownlee QUERY ([email protected]), who is From Nola Waterman, 50 Kearney St., doing research on the Dunkley family. Keyport, NJ 07735-1235 The oldest ancestor that we have identified in the Thomas (Harpole) Corys Looking for parents of George W. Corey, is Nicholas Cory. His second marriage b 1814 near Hornellsville (Hornell), N.Y., was to Emma Dunkley in 1538. We also who died 21 Sept. 1907 at Ashtabula, OH. know of a marriage of Thomas Cory and First wife was Nancy Baughen, second Elizabeth Dunkley in 1539. Eunice points was Katherine Broughton who died in out that there was also a Harpole Ashtabula, OH. Known child was marriage between Margaret Cory and Destimona Belle Corey, b 1860, d 1925, m Robert Dunkley in 1538. She goes on to to Joseph Konrad. speculate:

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