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In this issue: Soldiers Who Died in WW1 1-6 A Portrait of Mrs Polly Cory 7 Cory Heraldry 8-9 John Augustus Cory & Bramerton Lodge, Botcherby 10-12 Architectural Award; Membership News 12 DNA Report March 2014 13 Cory Bros and William Cory and Son 14-15 The Annual General Meeting & Event 15 Executive Committee 16

Soldiers Who Died in WW1 Margaret Goffin

Name: John George BURRELL-COREY Rank: PRIVATE Birthplace: Edgefield Place of residence: Enlisted: South Shields Reg. Corps etc.: Royal Fusiliers (City of Reg) Battalion etc.: 1st Battalion. Number: 76780 Date died: 11 October 1918 How died: Killed in action Theatre of war: France & Flanders Son of Joseph Burrell Corey & Anna Maria Jackson Norfolk Tree A29:Erpingham

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Continued from front page.

This year marks the centenary of the start of WW1. In 1999 the first list of WW1 casualties were put online by the Commonwealth Graves Commission and we dedicated three articles in our newsletter to the Corys and Coreys who we were able to trace through the Cory archive.(Issues Nos 19, 20 and 21) We are now able to identify more of those casualties using online data and through this make more connections to existing pedigree tables and also discover new family lines. Pedigree table and reference are given where known.

Starting on the front page with John George Burrell-Corey, and following in alphabetical order, is a list of soldiers born in England. It is displayed in the format used by the Commonwealth War Graves website with, in a few instances, extra information found in the Military section on the Findmypast website. The notation of how the soldier died is marked in different ways; in three cases only marked as simply ‘died’ with no further explanation. You will see how the loss of these soldiers, their names now perhaps only remembered in stone, changed their families for that generation and those following.

Name: William Maurice COREY Rank: PRIVATE Birthplace: Crowan, Place of residence: Trenear, Helston, Cornwall Enlisted: Redruth, Cornwall Reg, Corps etc.: Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Battalion etc.: 1st Bn. Number: 31669 Age 22 Date died: 30 October 1916 How died: Killed in action Theatre of war: France & Flanders Supplementary Notes: FORMERLY 3525, R. 1ST DEVON YEO. Son of William Corey & Minnie Roberts: Crowan line

Name: Albert Richard CORY Rank: LANCE CORPORAL Regiment/Service:Rifle Brigade Battalion: 5th Bn. Service No:35008 Date of Death:19 January 1920 How died: Died (of wounds?) Age:33 Cemetery: DEAL CEMETERY, , England Grave Reference 3. 185. Son of Thomas Cory & Rebecca Dadd. Husband of Florence M Cory (née Carey), of 10, North St., Deal. Kent line.

Name: Arthur Frederick CORY Rank: GUNNER Birthplace: Not given Place of residence: Penge, S.E. Enlisted: Woolwich Regiment, Corps etc.: Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery Battalion etc: Not given Number: 237619 Date died: 25 October 1918 How died: Died of wounds Age: 31 Theatre of war: France & Flanders Grave Reference A. 11. Cemetery CAPELLE-BEAUDIGNIES ROAD CEMETERY, Northern France Son of John Samuel & Caroline Cory : Ashwater, St Giles Heath Devon, and brother of John Henry Cory. Both children of this marriage died in WW1. Arthur married 1906 Minnie Matilda Ford and had 4 children by 1915. Devon

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Name: Bernard Charles CORY Rank: L/SGT Birthplace: Kensington, Middlesex Place of residence: Sidcup, Kent Enlisted: Manchester Regiment, Corps etc.: Manchester Regiment Battalion etc.: 1/6th Battalion. Number: 1184 Date died: 6 June 1915 How died: Killed in action Age: 27 Theatre of war: Gallipoli Awards: Mentioned in Despatches Son of Charles Henry Cory & Lydia Unity L Charlish Norfolk Tree A14/22 Gt Yarmouth/Manchester Branch

Name: Bernard Horace CORY Rank: PRIVATE Birthplace: Not given Place of residence: Wellingborough Enlisted: Kettering Reg, Corps etc.: Royal Fusiliers (City of London Reg) Battalion etc.: 17th Battalion. Number: G/68489 Date died: 18 April 1918 How died: Died of wounds Age 20 Supplementary Notes: FORMERLY 33838, EAST SURREY. Grave Reference VIII. P. 17. Cemetery: CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, Souchez, Pas de Calais, France Son of Robert & Ellen Cory. Norfolk Tree A1/NR Heacham / Wellingborough

Name: Charles Samuel CORY Rank: PRIVATE Birthplace: Northampton Place of residence: Not given Enlisted: Northampton Regiment, Corps etc.: Manchester Regiment Battalion etc.: 16th Bn. Number: 51010 0 Date died: 1 August 1917 How died: Died of wounds Age 29 Theatre of war: France & Flanders Grave Reference XVI. G. 17. Cemetery LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium Supplementary Notes: FORMERLY G/86531, MIDDLESEX REGT. Son of William Cory & Elizabeth Oxley married Emma Brazier 1913. Northants

Name: Charles Woolnough CORY Rank: 2/LT Regiment, Corps etc.: Reg Battalion etc.: 5th Battalion (Territorial) Date died: 12 August 1915 How died: Killed in action Age: 27 Panel Reference: Panel 46 and 47. Memorial HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey (including Gallipoli) Son of Charles Page Cory & Grace Margaret Gross. Grandson of John Augustus Cory. Norfolk Tree A14/17 Great Y armouth.

Name: Cyril Noel CORY Rank: CAPT Regiment, Corps etc.: Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery Battalion etc.: attd. Trench Mortar Bty.(ATT T M B) Date died: 31 October 1916 How died: Killed in action Age 26 Grave Reference II. A. 6. Cemetery CITADEL NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, FRICOURT, Somme, France Son of Herbert Benyon Cory & Constance Stedall. Devon W est Putford/ Cardiff

The Cory Society April 2014 Newsletter No 63, Page 3 Name: Ernest Albert CORY Rank: PRIVATE Birthplace: St. Peter's, Norwich Place of residence: Enlisted: Norwich Regiment, Corps etc.: Norfolk Regiment Battalion etc.: 7th Battalion. Number: 3/7804 Date died: 11 August 1916 How died: Killed in action Age: 21 Theatre of war: France & Flanders Panel Reference Pier and Face 1 C and 1 D. Memorial:THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France Son of Robert Hardiment Cory & Anna Elizabeth Woods. Norfolk Tree A31: Hainford/Marsham

Name: Frederick CORY Rank: PRIVATE Birthplace: Stratton, Cornwall Place of residence: Stratton Enlisted: Bude Regiment, Corps etc.: Devonshire Regiment Battalion etc.: 1/6th Bn (Territorials). Number: 266378 Date died: 24 March 1918 How died: Died Age: 20 Theatre of war: Mesopotamia Grave ReferenceI. H. 18. Cemetery BASRA WAR CEMETERY Country:Iraq Locality: - Additional Information: Theatre of war: Mesopotamia Son of Reuben Henry Cory & Betsy Ann Oke. Devon Tree: Pyworthy .

Name: Harry CORY Rank: PRIVATE Birthplace: Not given Place of residence: Leeds Enlisted: Leeds Reg., Corps etc.: Prince of Wales's Own (W Yorks) Battalion etc.: 1/7th Battalion. Number: 5015 Date died: 16 July 1916 How died: Died of wounds Age: 23 Theatre of war: France & Flanders Panel Reference Pier and Face 2 A 2 C and 2 D. Memorial THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France Son of John Cory & Priscilla E Blackburn of Leeds. Northants: Harpole/Bugbrook

Name: Horace CORY Rank: PRIVATE Birthplace: Southport, Lancs Place of residence: Southport Enlisted: Liverpool Regiment, Corps etc.: Machine Gun Corps Battalion etc.: (Infantry). Number: 42344 Date died: 26 March 1918 How died: Killed in action Age: 22 Theatre of war: France & Flanders Supplementary Notes: FORMERLY 34560, LIVERPOOL REGT. Son of Horace Adolph Cory & Edith Whitehead. Norfolk Tree A21: Gt Yarmouth

Name: John Fred CORY Rank: L/SGT Birthplace: London Place of residence: Bow, Essex Enlisted: Stratford, Essex Regiment, Corps etc.: Royal Scots (Lothian Reg) Battalion etc.: 2nd Battalion. Number: 10721 Age: 21 Date died: 26 August 1914 How died: Killed in action Theatre of war: France & Flanders

The Cory Society April 2014 Newsletter No 63, Page 4 Panel Reference: None given Memorial LA FERTE-SOUS-JOUARRE MEMORIAL, Seine-et-Marne, France Son of William Cory & Elizabeth Nightingale of Poplar, Middlesex. London

Name: John Henry CORY Rank: A/SGT. Birthplace: Battersea Place of residence: Forest Hill Enlisted: New Cross Regiment, Corps etc.: Corps of Military Police Battalion etc.: Mounted Branch. Number: P/4609 Date died: 15 February 1919 How died: Died Age: 35 Theatre of war: Home Supplementary Notes: FORMERLY 5396, DRAGOONS OF THE LINE, M.M. Grave Reference Screen Wall. D. 3205. Cemetery: LADYWELL CEMETERY Country: London. Son of John Samuel & Caroline Cory : Ashwater, St Giles Heath Devon. Husband of Martha E Ford, had 2 daughters, one was born in the summer of 1919. Brother of Arthur Frederick Cory. Devon: St Giles Heath

Name: John Reginald CORY Rank: PRIVATE Birthplace: Brixton, Surrey Place of residence: Mitcham, Surrey Enlisted: Chesterfield, Derbyshire Regiment, Corps etc.: Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) Battalion etc.: 9th Battalion. Number: 70230 Date died: 3 October 1917 How died: Killed in action Age: 31 Theatre of war: France & Flanders Panel Reference: Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A. Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium Son of Joseph Ambrose Cory & Margaret Hopkins of Battersea. Devon:Calstock

Name: Robert Ashby CORY Rank: PRIVATE Birthplace: Harpole, Northants Place of residence: Harpole, Northampton Enlisted: Northampton Reg., Corps etc.: King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) Battalion etc.: 5th Battalion. Number: 20878 Date died: 22 August 1917 How died: Killed in action Age: 22 Theatre of war: France & Flanders Supplementary Notes: FORMERLY 40080, SUFFOLK REGT. Grave Reference: VI. H. 5. Cemetery: HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY:West-Vlaanderen, Belgium Son of Sophia Richardson Cory & Alfred Edwin Ashby. Northants Tree: C1 Harpole/ Bugbrook

Name: Samuel CORY Rank: PRIVATE Birthplace: Delamere, Cornwall Place of residence: St. Teath, Cornwall Enlisted: Camelford, Cornwall Reg., Corps etc.: Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Battalion etc.: 7th Battalion. Number: 23432 Date died: 11 August 1917 How died: Died Age: 27 Theatre of war: Home Grave Reference: Not given Cemetery: DELABOLE (ST. JOHN) CHURCHYARD, Cornwall Son of William Cory & Frances Edwards of St Teath, Cornwall. Brother to William John. Devon: St Teath/ St Juilot

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Name: William John CORY Rank: PRIVATE Service No: 21443 Regiment: Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Date of died: 11/09/1920 How died: Of war wounds Age: 41 Grave Reference : Not given Cemetery: DELABOLE (ST. JOHN) CHURCHYARD, Cornwall Husband of Edith Annie Cory of 3, Railway Terrace, Delabole. Married in 1904; 3 children by 1911. Brother to Samuel. Devon: St Teath/ St Juilot

Name: William Roger CORY Rank:PRIVATE Service No:199261 Regiment/Service:Canadian Infantry 16th Bn. Date of Death:19/10/1917 Age: 32 Grave Reference: Screen Wall. 1. 1390. Cemetery: NORTHAMPTON (BILLING ROAD) CEMETERY, Northamptonshire Son of William Henry & Lucy Ann Cory, of 41, Kettering Rd., Northampton. Northants: Ascote/Heyford

Name: Wyndham Archibald CORY Rank: PRIVATE Birthplace: Not given Place of residence: Torquay Enlisted: Newton Abbot Regiment, Corps etc.: Devonshire Regiment Battalion etc.: 8th (Service) Bn. Number: 205065 Date died: 4 October 1917 How died: Killed in action Age: 34 Theatre of war: France & Flanders Son of Robert Cory & Lucy Doige of St Juliot, Cornwall. Cornwall Tree 13 : Tresparett

Information on casualties from other services and countries will feature in future newsletters.

O Valiant hearts, who to your glory came Through dust of conflict and through battle flame; Tranquil you lie, your knightly virtue proved, Your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

The Cory Society April 2014 Newsletter No 63, Page 6 Portrait of Mrs Cory Agnes Mary St Aubyn, known to her friends as Polly, married Richard Alexander Seymour Cory in Jamaica in 1931. Their daughter, Lamoir Ann Cory, was born two years later in Kingston. Sadly, the marriage did not last. Augustus John painted this portrait whilst on a visit to Jamaica. Polly was said to have left the West Indies shortly afterwards.

Richard was a much respected chest surgeon in the West Indies and later, in 1942, married Margaret Gordon McGregor. Their daughter, Sally Josephine Cory, was born in 1945 and it is through correspondence with Sally that we learnt about her father’s distinguished career. The article Richard Alexander Seymour Cory, OBE, FRCS, LRCP featured in Newsletter No. 50. Richard, born in Ochos Rios in Jamaica in 1903, descends from the English Gt Yarmouth Norfolk line. (Tree A16 NS)

The portrait of Polly Cory By Augustus John 1878-1961. (c 1920) appeared online whilst I was The portrait is dated 1920 , but I am sure the keen-eyed amongst researching the Gostwyck our readers will spot that Polly wasn’t Mrs Cory until 1931! Corys of Australia for the December issue. By a strange co-incidence, information also In this oil on canvas portrait of Polly Cory, Augustus John uses arrived about this Great gestural lines and arbitary areas of colour reflecting his Yarmouth line from another interest, at that period of his life, in Post-Impressionism. A source. Richard’s great uncle prolific painter, he is best known for his daring and was John Augustus Cory controversial portraits, and struggled throughout his artistic whose story follows on pages career to find a balance between the standards of the Royal 10-12 and despite the Academy of Arts and his wish to develop his own personal similarity in names, August style. He eventually rejected the social conventions and John has no Cory connection, adopted a bohemian life style, inspired by his interest in other than this portrait of gypsies. Polly! The portrait is in the collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Editor and was a gift from Mr and Mrs Charles B Loewen in memory of her mother, Mrs P A Chester.

The Cory Society April 2014 Newsletter No 63, Page 7 Great Yarmouth: Arms confirmed 1612, to John Cory of London, Gent. (NK/17A), grandson of Thos. Cory, (NH/3) born in Yarmouth, of Bramerton line, although John Cory (NH/1) (1538-81) is believed to be the first to bear these arms. Devon: John Cory (DH/3) signed the Visitation to Devon 1620 with his brother, Andrew, (DH/4) at Cory Barton, West Putford. Inner Temple, London: Thomas Cory (NL/25A) Chief Protontary of the Court of Common Pleas. 18th March 1639. Whalesborough, Cornwall: Herald’s Visitation in 1573 lists only four generations.

The Cory Society April 2014 Newsletter No 63, Page 8 Cory-Eade: Rev. Henry Cory Eade M. A. of St John’s College, Cambridge., son of Elizabeth Wymond Cory (SO/4) & Matthew Henry Eade. Langdon Court, Devon: Richard Cory (SP/21) son of Wm Cory (SO/15), London coal & shipping magnate, descended from Stratton Corys. Llantarnam Abbey, Monmouth: Sir Clifford John Cory (DQ/2) descended from John of Cory Barton (DF/1) West Putford (1505-1563). Cardiff: Sir James Herbert Cory, (PQ/2) created a Baronet in 1919, was not a descendant of John of Cory Barton, West Putford. Arms derive from Cornwall Visitation of 1620.

The Cory Society April 2014 Newsletter No 63, Page 9 John Augustus Cory of Bramerton Lodge, Botcherby Margaret Goffin

We had an enquiry earlier this year from Derek Nash, the current owner of Bramerton Lodge, Botcherby, Carlisle. This property, which Derek has lived in since 1984, was once the home of an architect called John Augustus Cory (1819- 1887) Norfolk Table A17NR. Derek wanted to know if the Society held any papers relating to the house. It is very rare for the Society to hold such documents as they are usually kept by family members and so we were not able to help him in this respect, but I was able to provide biographical information to which Derek responded with photos of Bramerton Lodge and a bust of John Augustus Cory (see right). The bust appears to be placed in front of a cloth bearing the Cory Great Yarmouth coat-of-arms. (See page 8.)

John Augustus Cory was born in April 1819 at Burgh Castle, in the parish Burgh St Margaret & St Mary, which is situated about 7 miles from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. He was the fourteenth and final child of a Great Yarmouth attorney, Robert Cory (1776-1840) and Ann Preston (1770- 1841).

In the Biographical Dictionary of British Architects John Augustus Cory is listed as "a pupil of J.J. Scoles.” Joseph John Scoles (1798-1863) trained and practised as an architect, and left England in 1822 to study archaeology and architectural research in Rome, Syria, Egypt and Greece. In 1826 he returned to his practice in London and was responsible for many buildings including the London Oratory. In 1831 he married John Augustus Cory’s older sister, Harriett Cory (1804-1880) so it was perhaps through this family connection that John Augustus became an architect.

John Augustus Cory attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge (Adm. pens. at

The Cory Society April 2014 Newsletter No 63, Page 10 Emmanuel, 18 Jan 1839; Matric. Lent John Augustus Cory married Emily Ann 1839.) It was in September 1841 that Holl on 17 Sep 1844. The marriage was Ignatius Bonomi took John Augustus conducted by his brother, the Rev. Robert Cory into his firm and two years later Woolmer Cory, MA. at St Mark's Church, they entered into a partnership. The Kennington, London. Her father, Joseph church of St John the Evangelist, Holl, was a London coal merchant of Nenthead ( the highest church in England Enscombe Terrace, Wandsworth Road, in 1845) was one of their joint projects. Surrey. It is believed by descendants of In Durham, behind the Waterloo Hotel is the Holl family, that Emily's gt. gt. Elvet Waterside, now with some new grandfather was John Vl King of housing, which was, from 1855, the home Portugal. of the city’s swimming baths and designed by John Augustus Cory. John Augustus Cory and his wife can be Members who joined us at Shere during found in the 1851 census living with their the Cory Event in Surrey will remember first three children at 46, North Bailey, St that Dr Isaac Rising Cory, nephew of Mary Le Bow, Durham. They had three John Augustus Cory designed an female house servants working for them. outdooor swimming pool and the village Emily and John Augustus Cory eventually hall for the Shere villagers. had nine children; Robert, Lambeth 1845; John Myrie, Durham 1846; Jocelyn, John Augustus Cory was chiefly Durham 1847; Mary Ignatia, Durham interested in the restoration of old 1848; Emily Louisa, Durham 1850; churches, adhering as far as possible to Alexander Durham 1852; Laura Lucy, the original design. In 1862, he was Durham 1855; Annie Josephine, Carlisle entrusted with the restoration of the walls 1857; and Charles Page, Carlisle 1859. of Pembroke College, extending from the buttery to the chapel, described as a very The family were not together in the 1861 judicious and careful piece of work and census as Emily was visiting her parents in 1863 he was responsible for the at Lambeth with her eldest son, Robert. rebuilding of a portion of the Old Court, As revealed by the census of 1861, the including the Hall. family had not yet arrived in Botcherby, but John Augustus was at home on the Other references to churches on which the night of the census with some of his pair worked are: St John, Upper Hopton, children in St Mary’s Municipal Borough, a Gothic Revival Church designed by Carlisle. The family’s address there was Ignatius Bonomi and John Augustus Cory 3, Abbey Street, St Mary’s, Carlisle. This in 1844-45; St Matthew, Dewsbury, 1847- tallies with the parish baptism records of 48; St Mary the Virgin, Oxenhope, 1849; the last two children who were christened St Mary Magdalen, Debenham, Suffolk at St Mary’s Church, Carlisle and not at restoration date 1871-1890: Cory & the parish church in Botcherby. Some of Ferguson for restoration of nave and John’s architectural work around this aisles. time included the churches at Bridekirk, Plumbland, Nenthead and Sebergham in He later practiced as an Architect at Cumbria as well as the County Hotel, Carlisle and became the County Carlisle. Surveyor. One reference claims that he was Cumberland County Architect from 1862. A document in Carlisle Record Derek Nash also found in Carlisle Office refers to the “Bond in £500 by Archives a document stating that John John Augustus Cory, gentleman of Augustus Cory was a Trustee of a Durham to T H Hodgson, Clerk of the Charity, together with the Vicar of St Peace for performance of his duty as John’s Church, Carlisle, and two others. County Surveyor.” (Ref: DHOD/11/184 They established the Charity to provide school prizes for 1856) Continued overleaf The Cory Society April 2014 Newsletter No 63, Page 11 Elementary pupils, from the sale of the Sources: site of a former school in Botcherby. The Derek Nash value of the land was later put as between Cory, John Augustus (1819-1887) architect £50 and £60. GB/NNAF/P148578 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/ NNAF/P48648) 1836-73: letters to Joseph John Augustus Cory died in 1887. His Bonomi in Camb Uni Library, Add MS 9389 will was proved by his son, Rev NRA Catalogue ref NRA 43475 Bonomi.) Alexander Arthur Cory, the gt Willis and Clark, Architectural History of grandfather of member Alison Kozowyk. Cambridge I. 137 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/ memories/durhammemories/9040856.print/ Alumni Cantabrigiensis Vol.2 Part 3. Venn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Architectural Award MEMBERSHIP NEWS From Malcolm Stuart

We are always pleased to receive information WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS: and news from our members for the newsletter. Ms Heather Greenway and Pete Phillips, Earlier this year, our Membership Secretary, Pontypridd, South Wales. Not of Cory descent Rosemary Gitsham, received a cutting from but currently researching Cory Brothers Ltd Malcolm Stuart. Malcolm, an architect, sent in an and Dyffryn for the Fletcher Society . article about a design competition won by van Heyningen & Haward Architects. The award Gregory Corey, Monona, WI 53716 USA. winning building is the Cory Environmental Descendant of John Corye of Bristol/ Wm Visitor Centre within Thurrock Thameside Corey of Tiverton, UK/ , Rhode Nature Park. Island, USA..

Described as a stunning and innovative visitor BIRTHS: centre it is built on a former landfill site, with Hassall: Congratulations to our Chairman, superb views over Mucking Flats (SSSI) and the Mark William Cory Hassall, on the birth of his Thames Estuary (SPA). The Centre is used as a first grandaughter, in Holland. She is the first wildlife observation facility for visitors, an child of Mark’s elder son, Ralph and Dymph. information centre, a community hub, and an CHANGE OF EMAIL ADDRESS: educational centre for local children throughout Hal Cory: the year. The 120-acre site was officially opened Patricia Heighton: by Sir David Attenborough on 11 May 2013.

The nature park, which is covered in footpaths CHANGE OF ADDRESS: and cycle-ways, will eventually expand to 845 Robert W Corrie, The Gap, Queensland acres. It is advertised as great for birdwatching, 4061. and ship watching, the latter an interesting link to the shipping connection of the founding firm of Wm Cory & Sons Ltd which features on page 14.

Source: http://www.essexwt.org.uk/reserves/ thurrock-thameside

The Cory Society April 2014 Newsletter No 63, Page 12 DNA Report March 2014 DNA Co-ordinator

We are extremely pleased to announce that Portsmouth and William of Rhode Island The American Cory Family Society of who left Bristol in the 17th century. There America have once again very kindly made has been no match found between DNA a donation towards our English Cory samples from these lines to any tested from Society’s DNA research. As reported in English lines so far. It is quite possible that previous newsletter DNA reports, our either all of the relatives from these early society uses some of your membership Cory families left this country, perhaps for renewal fees towards our DNA Project. In fear of religious persecution, or that those the past, when shortage of funds has remaining on these shores were all female, restricted testing to a chosen few, so that branch of the Cory name in donations towards testing have been made England died out. Another option being by members (usually females!) wishing to considered by the descendants of the have their own Cory branch DNA tested in Portsmouth line is order to further their research. that their ancestors were from Scotland or Ireland, which is where the Corrie name is Our most recent participant is Robert more prevalent. Clifford Cory of Poole, whose results were received in January this year. Robert, The Cory Society uses Family Tree to test descends from the Great Yarmouth Corys our DNA samples. Any male Cory is (Pedigree Table: Norfolk, A19). We thank welcome to arrange their own test through Robert for contributing to our project and the Family Tree website and apply to join adding to the main Norfolk DNA group our Cory project online once the test which is Haplogroup l1. results come through. As co-ordinator, I have selected the 37 marker or Y37 test for DNA testing has always been an expensive our project at $169, simply so that we are tool, and grows more so as the tests able to test more individuals. There are available become more extensive but it has other Y chromosome tests available: Y67 proved its worth many times. We have costs $268; Y111 costs $359. tested 31 English Corys and have a total of 78 participants’ results in our entire Cory You will find more information about DNA Project, which include participants DNA testing for family historians on the from both England and America. The Family Tree DNA website: American donation of $500 (£286.52) will http://www.familytreedna.co.uk/. enable us to widen our search. We are particularly interested in tracing and testing descendants of those Devon and Cornwall Corys whose lines have not yet been tested but so far their descendants have evaded us.

The American Cory Family Society of America have been hoping to find a DNA match to their descendants of John of

The Cory Society April 2014 Newsletter No 63, Page 13 Cory Bros and William Cory and Son Margaret Goffin

1868) joined his father as a young man it It is strange that there should be two Cory became known as William Cory and son. In families that both originated in the west fact William Cory Sr also had a younger son, country and that both dealt in the supply of Richard Cory (1822-1904) and he too joined coal and yet were apparently unconnected. his father and brother in the company. Richard They can be referred to as the Cardiff Corys Cory was the great grandfather of our and the London Corys. chairman, Mark William Cory Hassall. By the end of the 19th century the assets of the The Cardiff Corys. In 1838 Capt. Richard company were considerable. They included: 13 Cory (1799-1882) moved from Bideford to wharves on the Thames; two floating derricks; Cardiff and opened a Ship's Chandlers store leased depots in the Victoria, Albert and and provision merchants business near the Tilbury docks; four tug bunkering stations; Customs House. Then in 1842, Richard and yards and works at Charlton, Erith, Brentford, his two eldest sons, John (1828-1910) and and Rochester; 2,500 railway wagons; 42 coal Richard (1830-1914) opened a ship broking depots; 25 stables, which housed the business in the docks’ district of Cardiff. In Company's 350 horses. 1856 the provision business was sold and with his two eldest sons formed Richard Cory & William Cory & Son handled over five million Sons, shipbrokers ship owners, coal merchants tonnes of coal, coke and patent fuel each year. and exporters and colliery agents. Richard The goods were transported into London and retired in 1859 and the business became Cory the south east by barges on the Thames and the Bros & Co. and, in 1888, a limited company. Medway, and by wagons on the rail system. In addition, hay was brought into the capital from With the universal demand for Welsh steam the surrounding countryside. Every tug leaving coal for shipping in all parts of the world, and London on the Thames left with a cargo of especially after the opening of the Suez Canal rubbish from London's streets, for ultimate in 1869, the firm established coal depots, disposal on the marshlands of Kent and Essex. offices and agencies along all the great trade routes of the world. They became coal-owners With the outbreak of war in 1914, things in their own right by acquiring the Pentre changed considerably for the firm. The Colliery in the Rhonda in 1868, and later the Company’s coal distribution activities were Gelli, Tynybedw and Tydraw Collieries in the considered to be of national importance to the same valley, Aber Colliery in the Ogmore war effort and consequently most of its tugs Valley, Rheola and Glyncastle in the Neath were transferred to the Royal Navy. Valley and the Penrikyber [sic] Colliery in the Aberdare valley. They erected coke-ovens and washeries at the Gelli Colliery and became the Before conscription was introduced, the Company encouraged its employees to largest private wagon owners in the UK. volunteer for the armed forces, guaranteeing to keep their jobs open for them. As a result, by The brothers became very wealthy but, like September 1914 a complete regiment (a pals their father, assisted the temperance movement unit) had been raised from Cory staff. This was and others which helped in the social, the D Company, 6th Battalion of The Royal educational, and moral progress of the people East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) who were especially of Cardiff. commonly known as the Cory’s. The London Corys. The coal shipping By the end of the war, Cory had an urgent need company based in London was founded by to repair the fleet, having lost 16 ships; 10 William Cory (1783-1862) whose family torpedoed, 4 hit mines; 1 as a result of a originally came from Stratton in Cornwall. collision; and 1 reported missing presumed When his elder son, William Cory Jnr (1817- sunk. Yet in spite of the war, Cory expanded its

The Cory Society April 2014 Newsletter No 63, Page 14 operation steadily at home and abroad. In The Annual General Meeting & Event 1918 a further business, R & JH Rea, was purchased. This added a fleet of steamers, Saturday 7th - Monday 8th June tugs and barges, plant and coaling machines at Southampton and Bristol.

With the outbreak of the Second World War This meeting is, of course, open to all members the Company again threw its weight behind and will take place at the Institute of the national war effort. As in WW1, Cory Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, was involved in the maintenance of coal WC1H 0PY, (nearest underground stations supplies at all costs, ships were placed Euston and Euston Square). The AGM will have immediately at the government’s disposal, the usual agenda for which participants will be and offices on shore were used for sent papers in advance, so please let Mark government work. At Charlton, where ‘men Hassall know if you intend to come. (See below only’ had previously been the rule, women and back page for contact details.) took up jobs as painters, turners and store keepers, whilst at Erith barges were We will meet at the Institute at 12.00 on converted for the defence of the Normandy Saturday 7th for a buffet lunch followed by the beaches. A total of 12 Cory ships were lost AGM at 2.00. This will be followed by a talk by during the WW2 and more than 40 of Cory’s our Chairman, Mark Hassall, about his marine personnel received decorations. grandmother's Cory Family and the firm of Coal shippers, William Cory and Sons, founded by By the 1950s Cory was transporting and her grandfather. supplying fuel oil as well as coal. In the 1980s Cory withdrew from coal and oil We shall meet for dinner together that evening. distribution to concentrate on waste transport For those staying over the weekend, a trip up and disposal. In 1981 the two Cory group the Thames and a visit to London's Dockland companies were merged to form Cory Waste Museum are planned for Sunday 8th, and further Management, becoming Cory Environmental visits on Monday 9th to places associated with in 1990. Similarly the name of Cory Bros of William Cory and Sons: the site of New Barge Cardiff can still be found today, as a leading House, one of the Cory unloading depots on the logistics and maritime service provider. South Bank, The Cory Building in Fenchurch Street, and nearby Watermen's and Lightermen's Hall, though unfortunately we The Cory event this year will be based on shall not after all be able to make a tour round Mark’s gt. gt. grandfather, William Cory, and the building where Richard Cory was Master of the lighterage and shipping company that he the Company in 1867. In the afternoon, for the founded, Wm Cory & Sons. Some people really energetic, a visit to the National Maritime have already contacted Mark, this year’s Museum at Greenwich will also be possible. event organiser, to say that they will be joining us but if you have forgotten to reply Most attendees are staying at the nearby there is still time to book. Tavistock Hotel but for a list of other places to stay near the Institute of Archaeolology please contact Mark Hassall without delay:

The Cory Society April 2014 Newsletter No 63 Page 15 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: General enquiries e-mail: [email protected]

Officers: -

Chairman Mark Hassall,

Hon. Secretary

and Contact for Links & Publicity Jean Hayes,

Treasurer Paul Holloway,

Ex Officio Archivist

and Devon/Cornwall/S.Wales Co-ordinator Ida Birch,

Editor, Webmaster, DNA Co-ordinator

and Deputy Norfolk Co-ordinator Margaret Goffin,

Others:- Rosemary Holloway,

Honorary Founder Archivist Michael R. Cory,

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