PARISH OF ST. CATHERINE.
THE CATHEDRAL.
« THE cathedral church of St. Catherine stands in the southeast part of St. Jago de la Vega,* more commonly called Spanish Town, and occupies the site of the Spanish church of the Red Cross, which, together with an abbey, and another church, called the White Cross, was destroyed, at the capture of the town by Venables, in May, 1655.
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HERE LYETH THE BODY OF COLONELL THEODORE CARY, ONE OF THE SONNES OF COCKINGTON HOUSE IN DEVONSHIRE, BROTHER TO SR HENRY CARY CAPTAINE OF HIS MATIES FORT AT PORT ROYALL, ONE OF HIS MATIES COUNCIL, AND ONE OF THE JUDGES OF THE GRAND COURT IN JAMAICA. HE DIED JUNE 26th 1683 IN YE YEARE OF HIS AGE 63.
HE was also brother to Robert Cary, author of Paleologia Chronica, born at Cockington.
For an elaborate and interesting genealogy of this family, see the Herald and Genealogist, from which periodical the following is extracted :
" William Cary of this family had a daughter, who was married to Dr. William Helyar, and was buried in Exeter Cathedral, July, 1607. Dr. Helyar was a divine of some eminence, and claimed (I presume through his wife) kinship with Queen Elizabeth. At any rate he was her Majesty's chaplain, and probably through her, if not directly from her, received his other important preferments. He seems to have been a great pluralist in an age of pluralism, and enjoyed a prebendal stall both at Exeter and Chester, the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, the treasurership of Chelsea College, and various livings in Devon and Somerset. He died in 1645, and was, I think, buried in Exeter Cathedral ; but at East Coker, in Somersetshire, he founded an almshouse and built a handsome residence, Coker Court, which his descendants have occupied in succession to the present day. The archdeacon's eldest son, Henry Helyar, formed a second connection with the Cary family. According to the Visitation of Somerset, 1672 (confirmed by Cole's Escheats), he married in 1621, Christian, daughter of William Cary of Clovelly, co. Devon, and by her had several children, amongst whom was Cary Helyar, who migrated as a merchant to Jamaica, and there died, in 1672, aged 39. His monument is in the church of Spanish Town in that island, and in the same church is another to Colonel Theodore Cary, 'one of the sons of Cockington House, co. Devon, brother to Sir Henry Cary, a judge of the Grand Court.' He died in 1683, aged 63, and was therefore contemporary with Cary Helyar; and, it is not unreasonable to conjecture, was related to him. There can be little doubt that Colonel Theodore Cary was one of the younger sons of George Cary of Cockington, of whom Prince says, that his 'youngest sons became soldiers of fortune, and died, I think, beyond the seas, without issue.' This last statement is perhaps open to question, as the MS. I have quoted records the marriage, in 1676, of Colonel Theodore Cary with Dorothy Wale; and, in 1679, of Penelope Cary with Thomas Edward. .... »
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