THE CORY SOCIETY

The Cory Society
The Archives List

Ex Officio Archivist: Ida Birch
Honorary Founder Archivist: Michael Cory

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General Register Entries

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Births :1837 -1906
Marriages :1837 - 1916
Deaths :1837 - 1946

These entries of births, marriages and deaths are available in sheet form and are broken down into 10 year periods. They include the variants of Cory, Corey, Corie, Corye and deviants Coury, Core, Kory.

In Scotland, Civil Registration began on 1 Jan 1855 and Cory entries from these records are being extracted. GRO(S) is online. You will find their e-mail address on our Sites of Interest to Genealogists page.

Parish Registers

Marriage Indexes - all variants of Cory and Curry

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Devon: 1754 -1812 available in either name or parish order
Devon: 1813 -1837 available in either name or parish order

Wills and Administrations

Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) 1383-1800 and 1853-1857
(name index complete for wills, some admons) Variants: all

Principal Probate Registry (formerly Somerset House now at First Avenue House, High Holborn) 1858 - 1943; 1944 -1980
(name index complete for wills and admons) Variants: Cory only.

Chancery Proceedings

Index 1385-1799 (not complete)

Bristol 1385 -1467 Thomas Cory v Thomas Sutton Canon of St Augustins

Cornwall    1749   John Cory v Pye   re: Estate of John Durlsdon

Cornwall 1769 Nicholas Cory, clerk of Fowey v Shelly re: Lands in Sussex

Devon 1515 - 1529 Gerryng, Bideford v John (Walter) Corry re: Gt. Torrington

Devon 1637 Humfry Cory v Mary Patchcott re: Thorne re: Broadwoodwidger

Devon 1736/1745 William & John Cory v Wrey re: Cory Barton and Cory Mills

Norfolk 1660 Francis Cory v Francis Godbold re: Copyhold of Manor Earsham

Norfolk 1719 William Hawkins v Edward Devereaux re: Custody of John Cory

Norfolk   1737  William Barwood v Edmund Devereaux   re: John Cory, infant

Northampton 1515-1529 Nicholas Cory v Richard Butler re: Land at Horpole (sic)

Somerset 1385 - 1467 John Ayvle v Roger Coray re: Hospital at Bridgewater

Research Papers

No.   4    The North Cornwall Corys
No. 40    William Johnson Cory, Poet and Scholar
No. 59    The Bible Christians
No. 60    The Pendarves Family and Camborne
No. 61    The Corys of Launceston
No. 63    South African Corys (Sir George Cory)
No. 66    The Chichester- Cory Connection.
No. 67    Thomas Cory, Chief Protonotary
No. 69    The "Grate Booke" and the John 1st Enigma
No. 70    "Indian Love" by Laurence Hope (Adela F.Cory)

Indexes

American National Biography (Cory Entries) 1999
Army List 1679-1763
Burnet Morris Index
Westcountry Studies Library
Commissioned Sea Officers 1751-1815
Domestic State Papers 1547-1650
Exeter, Devon Marriage Licences 1523-1837
Fawcett Index
Genealogical Society Card Index
Glencross Index
India Index
Masons of England 1800-1920
Musgraves Obituary
Return of Owners of Land -Cornwall 1873-Devon 1872
T L Stoate Subsidies, Muster, Protestation, Hearth & Poll Tax ) Cornwall 1526-1666 (Table of Cory Names)
Devon 1524-1674

The Society holds many archives of which these are just some -

Books
Census
Chancery Proceedings
Computer database Directories
Education
Family Pedigrees
General Register Index
Separate data base of GRO certificates
IGIs (National Coverage in 1984 or 1988 series)
Indices
Marriage by Licence
Monumental Inscriptions
Parish Registers
Pedigrees
War Graves
Wills

All are available for consultation and copies of some can be ordered from our Archivist for a small fee to cover costs of postage and photocopying. Consult the Archivists by E-mail at
cory@one-name.com

Family Ties Explored - are you in our database?

If you would like to add your family line or trace it to other branches click here to record your information.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Derek Allen
George Arscott
Pam Barnes
Ida Birch
Carey Bromell
C A Butler
Rosamund Champ
Al Cory
Dr Bill Cory
Colin & Marilyn Cory
Kathleen B Cory
Malcolm & M S Cory
Michael R Cory
Patrick Cory
Percy Thomas Cory
Vernon Cory
Margaret C Cullingworth
Rosemary Gitsham
Jean Hayes
Chris Pitt Lewis
Kathleen Pearce
Nigel Service
Graham Seymour

The English Corys

The following list of chapters from the book of The English Corys is included in this section because it covers so many areas and topics giving a wonderful picture of Cory lives and of course all Cory family historians will be interested in the pedigree tables in Appendix A.

Chapter 1.    Sources of Cory History
Chapter 2.    The Western Origin of the Corys
Chapter 3.    The Cory Name
Chapter 4.    The Spread of Corys in Cornwall and Devon
Chapter 5.    The Cory Dispersal beyond the South West
Chapter 6.    The West Corys
Chapter 7.    The North Cornwall/North Devon - West Putford Corys
Chapter 8.    The North Cornwall/North Devon - Stratton Corys
Chapter 9.    The North Cornwall/North Devon - Poundstock Corys
Chapter 10. The Civil War and the North Cornwall Corys
Chapter 11. The Whalesborough Corys
Chapter 12. The Corys and the Bible Christian Connextion
Chapter 13. The Norfolk Corys
Chapter 14. The London Corys
Chapter 15. The Northamptonshire and Midland Corys
Chapter 16. The Bristol Corys
Chapter 17. The Scottish Corries
Chapter 18. The American Corys
Chapter 19. The Australian Corys
Chapter 20. Cory Heraldry and Photographs
Appendix A. Pedigree tables
Appendix B. Index of Individuals in the Pedigree Tables and General Index.

FAMILY HISTORIES & PEDIGREES

The Castlet Descendants Chart from Arthur Cory Dr Bill Cory
Cory Families of South Africa 1998 by Pamela M Barnes
Chapter 3 After the Immigration of Wm & Sarah Cory to South Africa in 1820 by D D Hall
Memorandum of the Cory Family by Ellen Cory 1885 by Malcolm & M S Cory
The Corey/Cory Families of New Brunswick, Canada by Stanley Corey
The Cory Pedigree, East Anglian Branch by Richard Henry Cory
The Corys of America compiled by Al Bertus Cory
The Family Tree of Thomas & Jane Cory of Caudworth, North Petherwin by Percy Thomas Cory
The Pedigree of the Family of Cory of Norfolk by Peter le Neve & Mr Woolmer 1754
The Pedigree of the Family of Cory of Norfolk by Robert Cory FSA 1822
The Pedigree of the Cory-Wright Family (1767 to date) Burke's Peerage & Baronetage
The Pyworthy Line Extension by John Mc Clure (on floppy disc )

EDUCATION

Alumni Cantabrigienses 1534-1899 by Venn
Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1886 by Foster
Blundells School Register 1700-1931

DIRECTORIES

Kellys London PO Directory for -1801 1814 1835 1840 1880 1886 1890
Kellys Cornwall Directory - 1830
Pigotts Cornwall Directory - 1830
The Norwich Directory by William Chase & Co 1783

Census Records

The Society Archives includes census information on many counties apart from those now available on the LDS 1851 and 1881 CDs and the online1901 Census. Cory researchers have been compiling information from census documents for over 30 years and we have extensive records of those counties where Corys were known to be present. These counties, which have more entries than others, have been recorded in the area page for that region, showing individual places and the decade found.

Census records on the following counties have also been recorded in the Society records.

Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Carmarthenshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Flint, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Huntingdonshire, Isle of Wight, Jersey, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, London and Middlesex, Monmouthshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Westmorland, Worcestershire and Yorkshire.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Ida Birch
C A Butler
Rosamund Champ
Colin & Marilyn Cory
Malcolm & M S Cory
Michael R Cory
Rosemary Gitsham
Margaret Goffin
Chris Pitt Lewis
Kathleen Pearce
Christine Todd

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