THE CORY SOCIETY
Member of the Guild of One-Name Studies
Member of the Federation of Family History Societies
 In October of 1992, a preliminary meeting was held
in Northampton, England. On 17 December 1992, a steering committee
was appointed and the Cory Society was formed in
England.
Membership is open to all who bear the Cory
name, or close variants thereof, or who are immediate family relatives of
CORYs even though not so named.
Membership Fee:
| UK |
?12 |
| US |
$27 |
| Canada |
C$40 |
| Australia |
A$40 |
A membership application may be found on their web site
at
http://www.corysociety.org.uk/.
Contributions to their
Newsletters are welcome from members and non-members alike and can be sent
to their Newsletter editor,
Margaret Goffin, (Email
mgoffin@aol.com). She is also their webmaster.
For additional information on the Cory Society, contact:
Jean Hayes
2 Bourne Close
Thames Ditton, Surrey
KT7 0EA, England.
Email jemhayes@globalnet.co.uk
The following is borrowed from the
Cory Society Web Pages:
The Cory Origins
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The Cory name is documented
pre-parish registers in Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Bristol, Devon
and Cornwall. Many Corys migrated and most Cory lines have an
emigrant or two to the USA, Canada, South Africa and Australia or
New Zealand. |
| The Society has published a book on
"The English Corys" by Michael R. Cory and Vernon Cory and also a
book of the revised "Norfolk Pedigrees" compiled by. Michael
R. Cory who is the archivist of the Cory Society. These
publications are available as are various information sheets to help
with your research. (See link below to research information page.) |
Wales:
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Cardiff in South Wales became the
home to two Cory families from the west country. The companies they
formed had great influence in the area.
Richard Cory (1799-1882) arrived from Devon about
1840, his two eldest sons John and Richard later and establishing
the company Cory Brothers at Cory Buildings. John Cory
built the house at Dyffryn, St. Nicholas about 4 miles from Cardiff
- and his philanthropy was recognized in his lifetime with the
erection of a statue in Cathays Park. John had four children
and Llantarnam Abbey was the home of one of his sons, Sir Clifford
Cory Bt. from 1895 until he died in 1941. Clifford modified
the building to look like a castle with battlements and turrets.
It was requisitioned during World War II, but became the property of
the Sisters of St. Joseph of Annecy in 1946. Clifford married Jane
Anne Gordon Lethbridge in 1893.
John Cory (1822-1891) who came from Cornwall in
1872 and established John Cory & Sons (ship owners) at Mount Stuart
House.
However if you see a Cory tug boat at Cardiff
Docks, this is connected to yet another line with west country roots
(see William Cory below). |
London:
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William Cory (1783-1862), the
founder of William Cory & Sons, a farmer's son born at Week St Mary
in Cornwall, left for London sometime before 1810. By the time
he retired he was a respected gentleman of Bloomsbury. One of
his granddaughters was Ann Maria Cory. She is the Cory family
connection with Alice in Wonderland. Ann Maria Cory married
Harry Liddell whose sister was Alice Liddell the original Alice in
Wonderland.
If you are in London, take the opportunity to
visit the Victoria & Albert Museum, in South Kensington and take a
look at the jewelry in display case 19 in Gallery 92. The
museum catalogue shows that most of the case is taken up by Dame
Jane Anne Gordon Cory's jewelry although the name plate on the case
is that of Louisa Dowager Viscountess Wolseley, it refers to her
portrait on the wall above. The collection consists of
garnets, amethysts, jade, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, pearls and
diamonds. Some of these are presumed to be wedding gifts as details
of jewelry were included in a newspaper report of her marriage.
These Cory jewels are alongside cases of items from the Russian
Crown Jewels sold by the Bolshevik government so they are in
sparkling company. |
Cambridge:
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Reginald Radcliffe Cory was the
benefactor of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. There is a
rose grown at Cory Lodge called the Rosa xcoryana which is a deep
shade of pink. These 'species' roses can be ordered direct
from rose grower Peter Beales at
sales@classicroses.co.uk
(Delivery might be delayed as they are grown specially to order.) |
Norfolk:
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The earliest Cory recorded in the
county was Geoffrey Cory in 1324 in the Patent Rolls. However,
it is the line of Robert Corie that provides the earliest family
tree in Norfolk. He traveled from Launceston to Norwich, which
was at that time one of the most important towns in England.
Robert purchased land in 1399 and in 1403 he bought an estate in the
village of Bramerton where the family lived until 1682.
Norwich was said to have a church for every week of the year and an
alehouse for every day! Several of these churches had
Corys as clerics. |
The Corry Family from Ireland:
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The Corry family from Dublin,
Ireland had moved to Putney in London by the year 1870. The two
sons, Alfred and Edward, went to colleges in England. Alfred
became a civil engineer. When he died in 1892 Alfred Corry
bequeathed ?1500 in his will towards a lifeboat at Southwold in
Suffolk. One of his executors was his brother Edward Crawford Corry,
a barrister of The Temple, London. The lifeboat was
known as the Alfred Corry and launched with great ceremony in 1893.
It remained in service until 1918 and was launched 41 times, saving
46 lives. This lifeboat has recently been renovated and put on
display at Southwold in a museum that has been created out of the
former Cromer lifeboat shed. |
Settlers on Other Continents:
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We have regional coordinators in
Australia and also contacts through The Cory Family Society of
America with Canada and United States of America. The edition
of "The American Corys" by Vernon Cory & Michael R. Cory is based on
the Corys' settlement and dispersion in the United States and
Canada. This includes a chapter on Giles Cory who emigrated to
America some time between 1622-1650. He is remembered for his sad
and cruel end during the Salem Witch trials, for on the 19th
September 1692 Giles Cory was pressed to death for refusing a trial.
In 1951 the author, Arthur Miller, based The Crucible on
the trial of Giles Corey. Even earlier inspiration came in
1868 to the American poet, Longfellow who dramatized the event in
Giles Cory and the Salem Farms:
Those who lie in Potter's
Field,
Will rise again, as surely as ourselves,
That sleep in honoured graves with epitaphs;
And this poor man, whom we have made victim
Hereafter will be counted as a martyr!
More details about the Salem Witch
Trials can be found by links through the Salem Memorial web site at
http://salemweb.com/memorial/stones3.htm |
| The above items have been taken
from 'The English Corys' and from articles published in the Cory
Society Newsletter. If you would like to read the original fuller
version, back copies can be ordered and also copies of the research
papers. Visit their web site for more information. |
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