Family:George Cary and Elizabeth Seymour (1)

« His youngest son was that GEORGE CARY (1578?-1643) who was intended by the Lord Deputy to take the place of his own lost son of the same name but by his "unrulye caryage" forfeited his opportunity to be the sole heir. Nevertheless, under the final settlement, he inherited Cockington on his father's death and there he lived for many years, and there he was buried in 1643, passing on the estate intact, contrary to the expectations of his uncle. He had married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edward Seymour, Bart, of Berry Pomeroy, near Totnes, and a great-granddaughter of the Protector Somerset.(fn)
When in July, 1643, he (George Cary) died,(fn) he left a large family of children.(fn)
The eldest son, SIR HENRY CARY (1613-1665), was then thirty years of age. In 1634 he had married his neighbor Amy, daughter of Sir James Bagge, of Saltram, and on coming into his estate was already the father of two of his five recorded children. ...
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In support of the application of Sir Henry Cary of Cockington for composition there was filed (fn) a deposition by one of his servants that on June 15, 1646, there were living with Sir Henry, at Cockington, his mother and the following named brothers and sisters: Robert, Edward, John, Theodore, George, Walter, James, Francis, Elizabeth, Bridget. The Visitation of Devon of 1620 gives the children living when that record was made as Henry, Robert, Edward, Francisca, Elizabeth, and John, the last named "aet 3 menses."(fn) It follows that all the younger brothers and sisters who were living in 1646, viz., Theodore, George, Walter, James, and Bridget, were born after 1620; and this is confirmed by the entry of the matriculation of the oldest
of them, Theodore, at Queen's College, Oxford, in 1642, when he gave his age as eighteen;(fn) and by the earliest entry of the family in the surviving parish register of Cockington, (fn) namely, for 1629, reading: "Bridgett Cary, the daughter of George Cary, Esq., and Eliza, his wife, was bap: the 20 of January." One of them must then have been born every year from 1624 to 1629. It seems clear that the Francis of the deposition of 1646 was intended for the daughter Francisca born 161 7, who appears in the Visitation pedigree, and not a son Francis born 1628, as the misprint has heretofore led us to conjecture.(fn)
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« Thomas CARY, inherited the lands of Cockington and Chilson. He m. Mary, dau. of John Southcot, of Bovy Tracy, Devon, and had issue,
1. GEORGE (Sir), his heir.
2. John, of Dudley, co. Stafford, m. dau. of — Norton, and had issue,
Font....1. EDWARD (Sir), of whom presently.
Font....3. Thomas, of Moulsham, co. Stafford.
Font....4. Edward, d.s.p.
Font....5. GEORGE, who inherited Cockington, and the remainder of his uncle the Lord Deputy's estates, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Edward Seymour, Bart., of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, and had (with three younger sons and a dau.), SIR HENRY CARY, Knt., Sheriff of Devon 18 CHARLES I.
Font....6. Dudley, m. and had issue.
Thomas Cary was s. at his decease by his eldest son,
Font....SIR GEORGE CARY, Knt., of Cockington, Treasurer of Ireland, and afterwards, Lord-Deputy. Sir George m. 1st, Wilmot, dau. and heir of John Gifford, of Yeo, Devon, and had a dau., Anne, m. Sir Richard Edgcombe, Knt., of Mount Edgcombe. He m. 2ndly, Lettice, eldest dau. of Robert. Lord Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick, but by her (who m. 2ndly, Sir Arthur Lake, Knt.) he had no children.
Sir George d. 1616, and was s. by his nephew,
Font..SIR Edward CARY, Knt., of Marldon, Devon. ....  »
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« BRANCHES OF CARY, OF COCKINGTON, TOR ABBEY, AND FOLLATON, CO. DEVON. (p.81--128)
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(p.84) ... Sir George Cary was enabled to make large additions to the fair estate derived from his father and his first wife, and, at the time of his death, his rent-roll must have been one of the amplest in Devonshire. ...
A large portion of these possessions, including the manor and mansion of Cockington, fell to the share of his namesake and adopted heir George, the youngest but one of the sons of his brother John Cary of Dudley, co. Stafford.
This George Cary married Elizabeth, a daughter of the now ducal House of Seymour. The contents of a deed printed in the Appendix show that, in early life at least, George Cary displayed tendencies to extravagance, which excited his uncle's misgivings. He nevertheless handed down the Cockington estate, at his death in 1643, to his eldest son and heir, the gallant but unfortunate Sir Henry Cary.
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APPENDIX. (p.98-128)
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EXTRACTS FROM PARISH REGISTERS. (p.100-104)
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COCKINGTON, DEVON.
Baptisms.
1629. Richard Cary the sonne of Dudley Cary and Dorothy his wife was bap: the 8th of Septemb:
Bridgett Cary the daughter of George Cary, Esq. and Eliza his wife was bap: the 20 of January.
1640. Grace, daughter of Henry and Amy Cary, Esq. was bap: the 17th of Ja: 1640.
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Burials.
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George Cary, Esq., buryed the 23 of July 1643.
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FROM THE ROYALIST COMPOSITION PAPERS. (pp.104-106)
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Deposition of a servant of Sir Henry Cary, that on the 15 June 1646 the latter's mother and following brothers and sisters were all living in the house with him :—Robert, Edward, John, Theodore, George, Walter, James, Francis, Elizabeth, Bridget.
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The Herald and Genealogist, Vol. VIII. London: R.C. Nichols and J. B. Nichols, printers to the Society of Antiquaries, 25, Parliament Street, Westminster. 1874. Edited by John Gough Nichols, F.S.A. Hon. Member of the Societies of Antiquaries of Scotland and Newcastle-on-Tyne, Corresponding Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society and of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society.