THE BARRY FAMILY RECORDS - Volume f - CAPTAIN CHARLES BARRY AND HIS DESCENDANTS Edited by LAURENCE H. PARKER, A.B. Member of The New England Historic Genealogical Society 9 Ashburton Street, Boston Privately Printed Boston 1951 THE BARRY COAT-OF-ARMS The Coat-of-Arms used by the several bro.nchos of our Barry Family is described as follows: Arms: Argent, three bars gemelles, gules. Crest: On a wreath, a castle, argent, from the top whereof issues a wolf's head, sable. Supporters: Two wolves, sable, thoir ducnl coll­ ars and chains, or. Motto: BO UTEZ EN AVANT. This Coat-of-Arms was used by all branches of the Fa."llily, each adding the distinctive marks appro­ priate to that branch. The above picture shows the ducal crown added by the Earl of Barrymore. -1 ._.,,. -~-- -~~. -~- - MANORBIER CASTLE, ANCIENT SEAT OF 'l'HE BARRYS Let me now praise distinguished men Our fathers, before us. They are a great glory to the Lord who created them, They show His majesty from of old; Men who exeroised authority in their reigns And were renov,ned for their might. They gave us counsel with understanding, And brought 11111n tidings through their prophecy; Leaders of the people in deliberation and understanding, Men of learning for the people, 'hise in their rords of instructi,,n; Composers of musical airs, Authors of poems in v,ri tine;, Rich men, endowed with strength 'i'fho lived in peace upon their lands; - All these were honored in their generation, And were a glory in their day. There are some of them who have left a name, So that men declare their praise; And there are some who have no meioorial, And have perished as though they had not been, With their children after them. Yet these were merciful men And their uprightness has not been forgotten. "lfith their descendants it will re111B,in A good inheritance for their posterity. - Eoolesiasticus, 44: 1 - 11. (Translation of Smith and Goodspeed in The Short Bible, published by The University of Chicago Press) iv .... Legt'.id .. La BARRE In Normandy Is about 40 miles S.W. ol Paris. MANORB!ER CASTLE on south coast ol Wales ls .:,bout 3 miles from Tcnby a11d 4 miles from Pcmbr-oke. BUTTEVANT Is 25 miles N.W. or Cork. S/1.NTRY Is 4 miles north ol Dublin. TABLE OF OOJITEN'.tS Page The Barry Coat-of-Arms 1 Title Page ii Picture or t!an.orbier Castle iii Quotation from Eoolesiaaticus iv Map~ British Isles and Normandy Coast V Table of Contents vi Introduction l Nor1UU1dy Origin of the Family 5 Manorbier Castle, Ancient Seat or the Barrye 7 Barrys of Manorbier Castle 10 Captain Charles Barry and son John Barry 16 Descendants of John Barry, Jr. 20 Descendants of Samuel Barry 26 Notes on Charles Barry, son ot John Barry, Sr. 33 Dncendant, or llaey Bucy M Descend1LJ1ts of James Barry 47 Descendants of Thom.a Barry 65 Descendants of Elir.abeth Barry 65 Descendants of lrill1Blll. Barry 76 Appendix A - Ancestral Lille ot Prinoesa Nesta 118 Appendix B - Anoestey of F1t~ Walter de Windsor 120 Appendix C - Letter of Rev. Joseph Barry 121 Appendix U - The Ancestry of Rannsh Berry 126 Index 126 vi lllTRODUCTION PREVIOUS ACCOUNTS OF THE BARRYS IN A!lERICA Ma.ey 11111inbere of our Barry Fudly have interested themselves in it ■ history and several aocount ■ have been llritten,giving suoh 1n.for- 1M.tion as 'All then available to their writers. My !IIAterne.l grandfath­ er, Rev. John Stetson Barry, author of "THE HISTORY OF HANOVER, MASS­ ACHUSETTS", "THE HISTORY OF 14ASSAUHUSETTS" tin 3 volwnes), and "THE GENEAUlGY OF THE STETSON FAUILY" lhis mother's) .,as eager to prepare a silllilar aooount of his father' 11 family and assel!lbled all the data he oould find. His elder brother, Rev. 'William Barry, Jr., author of "THE HISTORY OF FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS", and Founder of the CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOL:IETY. also gathered material. In 1906• Herbert Barry, E11q., of New York City, published a booklet entitled "THE DES-· 11 CENDAN TS OF CHARLES BARRY, A RECORD OF FIVE GENERA.TIO NS - Compiled from "NOTES AND MEMORANDA OF JOHN LINOOLN BARRY". And in 1907, my mother's sister, E11ther Stetson Barry, published her book WILLIAJ,ll AflD ESTHER BARRY AllD THEIR DESCENDANTS. It was at her eJIPress wish that l undertook this present effort to bri.ni; up to date the reoord of CAPTAIN CHARLES BARRY'S DESCENDANTS. Recently tao investigators, Col. lU.ohael Henry Barry, U. S, A. Ret. (now deoeaaed), and 'lllllir.m Crocker Barry, of Glendale, Calif., 11111.de aareful study of the Barry• in France and Britain,and their find­ ings, recorded in typewritten form,liave been of inestimable value in preparing the following pages. To lfillir.m Croaker Barry, especially, is due a very large measure of credit. OUR CONNECTION WITH THE BA.RHYS OF BRITAIN Until reoently, the oonneotion between the Barrya or the Brit­ ish Idea and our imigrant ancestors was indicated only by a l'lidely held tradition that "three brothers,ll'illiam, James and Charles Barry" came to America between the years 1720 and 1732, "ffilliam settling in Williamsburg, Va.and Charles in Boston wheN be bees.me part-Ol'lller in, and Captain or,a fjhip that waa eventually lost ll:l.th all on boardJ that his only ohild, John, born posthumously, was brought up by the Virgin­ ia relatives but that he finally returned to Boston mere his subsequ­ ent rrarriage, the birthll or hi• eleven ahildren, and his own eemae in the Revolutionary War, are matters of public reoord. '£his "family traditionn is reoorded in the above-~ntioned nNotes" ire.de by Rev.John Stetson Barry and by his brother Re-v.i'l'illiam Bury, Jt",i end alao in letters written by Dr. Wm. Taylor Barry and by Mr. H. T. Barry (both being descendants of iiillia.m, brother of Charles) showing tha.t the above-quoted "tradition" 11as handed on among the members of both the Charles and the 1'fillis.m tiarry immigrant branches of the family. It is repeated by Mr. Herbert Barry in his "Reoord of Five Generations of the Descendants of Charles Ba.rryn in l which he aleo gives -~ quota.tions from -public records ehowing the prominence. in the history of Gres.t Britain e.nd Irellllld, of individ­ us.le bearing the Barry name, aioong them being SIR ROBER'!: BARRY ffl\O 'WII.I in -possession of Dongcurney Castle. A. D, 1415, llJld who was ancestor of COLONEL CHARLES BARRY. born Me.y 10, 1660 at Santry in Ireland. Col­ onel Ch&rlee Barry ha~ six sons a.nd three daughters, their n~s beir.g JOHN, JAt.!ES, WILLIAM, THO~S, CHARLES, RICHARD, ELIZABE'J:H. ELEANOR and lU..RGARE'J:. Kr. Herbert Barry goes on to say: "The identity of the fifth son or Col, Charles Barry with the Charles ,mo emigrated to America is indicated by tradition and by oiroumatential evidence. althllugh direct dooumentary evidence is probably not extant." Thie etaternent W&e made in 1906. DISCOVERY OF THE NEEDED "OOCUJ,!ENTARY EVIDENCE" In the SI.Ui:llt8r of 1933, while ~ 'Wife and I were on our first trip to Califomia,we called on Col.ID.aha.el H. Barry ,mo had just com­ pleted his researches into the family's history, In the oourse of 00J1Tersation, he gave us the address of Mr, David o. Barry, a realtor in. Loa hgelee,saying that he 0 too, was interested in our family back­ ground, Calling a.t the given addreu, 1"11 found that L!r,David 0, Barry was a descendant of Jam&s, the aeoond eon of Colonel Charles Barry,and that he had the Bible Record im,.de by hii; ancestor (who hs.d follo1'9d his brothers to Anlerioa) a record which fully substantiatestte nfamily tradition" stated above. THE JAMES BARRY BIBLE RECORD The pertinent entries in this Bible Reoord are here given,to­ gether with explanatory 00D111ent11 THE RECORD &XPLANATOiiY COMIIENT l January 1727James Barry and Mary James records hie 01'ltl marriage, the Buckner me.rried this day. customary "first entry", 20 Febranry, A, D.1728, Born to ue Record of birth of James' first a eon, whose nawi ie Jamee Buokner {and only) ohlld, Barry. ---- Thb Lord giveth and the Lord Record of the early death of James• taketh a1!'1ly. Mary has departed wife, Ue.ry (Buckner) Barry. from us. Father died A,D, 1730 is the word The all-important record which shows sent by Captain Charles Barry.Col- that the emigrant brothers' "father" onel Charles Barry 'ffll.s born May 10,was Col, Chas. Darry, born May 10, A,D. 1660; he was a brave soldier 1660 as stated above. and eerved his Country well. 2 In this year of Our Lord 1732, I Ja111111 deoides to follcnr his broth­ shall go to Virginia. There is ers •:;1111&.111 o.nr\ Charles, liberty there. • The ohildren of William Blll"ry are This shows that hi& brother 1T1ll­ three sons: John, born in Ireland, iam left Ireland between 1719 and A,D, 1719; and now lives in Penn­ 1722, \The exact date was llaroh, sylvania; Charles Barry, born in 1720 as shov,n on page 20 of this Virginia A, D, 1722; and Rich.o.rd volume). Barry, born A.D, 1726 in Virbinia. 19 Deoember A.D. 1734, Y,ord rec'd Lloyds, international Insuranoe from Lloyds of the loss of the Company, sends notice of the death vessel of Capt, Charles Barry and of his brother, Capt.Charles Barry, Matthew Blair, The son of Charles Barry was born Reoord of the posthumous birth of in Boston 16 June A, D.