CORYS OF NORTH AMERICA

AMERICA AND CANADA

Co-ordinator: Ida Birch  cory@one-name.com

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 dramatised 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

There is information about the early Corys in America and their descendants on the extensive site of the Cory Family Society of America. Some of those featured are:

John Corey whose first record in the US was first mentioned at Southampton, Long Island, NY on the 7th of March 1644, as a Whale Commissioner for his district.(Submitted by Mary Ann Kaylor)
Jeremiah William Cory, Snr. 1793-1860 the story of Corys in the Revolutionary War, by David A Cory, M.D .
William Cory was born about 1628 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. He was christened on 21 May 1634 in St James Parish Church, Bristol England. He died on 8 Feb 1681/82 in Portsmouth, Newport Co, RI.
John Cory of Southold, Long Island, New York
John Corey of Roxbury, Massachusetts.
John Cor(e)y and his brother Thomas Cor(e)y came to America in 1658, from Devonshire, England, and first settled at Charlestown, MA

Emigration into America has continued over the centuries. The 19th century saw 12 million Britons leave their overcrowded homeland and emigrate to the colonies in search of a new and better life. A good database to find some of   these travellers is the site for Immigrant Ships, the immigration lists compiled by the Transcribers Guild on http://istg.rootsweb.com  Many bearing the Cory or Corry name sailed from Liverpool and most of these came from Ireland.  The earliest on these lists is for 1849 and there are 25 other Cory names and variants listed. The database is being updated by volunteers on a regular basis so it is worth checking from time to time.

The 1850 census and other information on the Corys in America is available through the Cory Family Society of America web site at http://www.coryfamsoc.com/

The Cory Society is receiving regular e-mails to our Archivist from American Corys who ask for assistance in tracing their ancestors in Great Britain. We have been pleased to meet up with some of our e-mail enquirers when they are visiting this country.  The Society liases with the Cory Family Society of America so that by exchanging information and working together we both improve our databases. If you would like to add your own family's details to our database just click on to the "YOUR INFORMATION" button.

Early English Settlements

English Colonies 1750

Emigrant Trails 1850

CORY BOOKS

THE ENGLISH CORYS
by Michael & Vernon Cory

THE NORFOLK CORYS
by Michael R Cory

THE AMERICAN CORYS
by  Vernon & Michael R Cory

FAMILY HISTORY & PEDIGREES
The Corys of America compiled by Al Bertus Cory

INDICES
American National Biography (Cory entries) 1999

ACKOWLEDGEMENTS
Al Cory
Margaret C Cullingworth

Canada:

Amongst those who emigrated to Canada were 40 people from the village of Kettlestone in Norfolk  Poverty and depression was rife in England after the Napoleonic Wars and many left to seek a better life. Amongst those from Kettlestone who boarded the 'Eliza Liddle' at Kings Lynn on the 16th June 1836 were Lucy and Thomas Harrison with their baby daughter Harriet. Lucy was the daughter of William Reeder and Martha ne้ Cory. Martha who died in October 1836 was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Mary (ne้ England) who married at Earlham in 1758.

John's brother was James Cory Snr (1733-1793) who was Rector of   Kettlestone ( Norfolk Corys Table A1 NN) James' son James was the Rector of Kettlestone when the emigration was arranged.  The Norfolk page has a photograph of the grave stones of these Corys.   Irene Harrison The Cory Reeder Harrison Family Tree (1995, private circulation) was based on the Canadian descendants of William Reeder and Martha Cory (The English Corys Table A1 N6)  The emigrants' destination was Port Francis on the St Francis River near it's junction with the great St Lawrence. In the north east corner of Hudson Bay is a small inlet called Kettlestone Bay, a rough rocky area that is presumed to be a point where the travellers stopped for fresh water.

A section on the Canadian cemetery at Vimy Ridge is on the page dedicated to remembering those who served. It also has two photographs which were taken during a visit to the cemetery in May 2000 showing the memorial and section of the wall where the name of Private J Corry of the 38th Bn., Canadian Infantry who died on Tuesday, 26th June 1917 is carved. The page includes lists of all Corys who died during both World Wars.  You can find more information on the Commonwealth War Graves site at http://www.cwgc.org  Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour

Further information relating to casualties of the two world wars (service and operational records, historical background) may be obtained from the addresses below:

NATIONAL ARCHIVES (CANADA)
Personnel Records Unit
National Archives of Canada
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa
Ontario
CANADA K1A 0N3

CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM
330 Promenade Sussex Drive
Ottawa
Ontario
CANADA K1A 0M8

The lych gate at Kettlestone Church, erected in memory of  James Cory and his son

FAMILY HISTORIES & PEDIGREES

The Corey/Cory Families of New Brunswick, Canada by Stanley Corey

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Nigel Servive
"The History of Kettlestone with Pensthorpe"
by Donald Tuck