Person:John Cary (36)

« His (John Cary's) 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.
When in July, 1643, he died,¹ he left a large family of children.² The eldest son, SIR HENRY CARY (1613-1665), was then thirty years of age. ...
Footnotes:
1. He was buried in Cockington Church, but no M.I. nor any will survives. See, however, the parish register in H. & G., viii, 101.
2. See post, p.277.
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... In support of the application of Sir Henry Cary of Cockington for composition there was filed¹ 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."² 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;³ and by the earliest entry of the family in the surviving parish register of Cockington,⁴ 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 1617, who appears in the Visitation pedigree, and not a son Francis born 1628, as the misprint has heretofore led us to conjecture.⁵
Footnotes (those following the first are renumbered here, where there is no page separation):
1. The children of Sir Henry Cary.
2. Royalist Composition Papers, 1645, calendared in H. & G., viii, 105.
3. Vivian, 152.
4. Foster Alumni Oxon.
5. H. & G., viii, 100.
6. The Virginia Carys, 141. Cf. post, p. 697.
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Source:Harrison, Fairfax. Devon Carys
The full Vol. I may be accessed here: archive.org

« BRANCHES OF CARY, OF COCKINGTON, TOR ABBEY, AND FOLLATON, CO. DEVON. (p.81--128)
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(pp.84-85) ... 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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Page 97 contains TABLE VII.—Carys of Cockington. This pedigree has the descent from "George Cary, of Cockington==Elizabeth (Seymour)." - in which their eleven children are shown (as in the table, sons are listed first, and numbered here: 1-8, daughters following: 1-3):
1. "Sir Henry Cary, of Cockington; æt. 7 in 1620; lost Cockington 1651; High Sheriff of Devon 1643."=="Amy, dau. of Sir James Bagge, of Saltram, co. Devon; bur. at Cockington 16 June, 1652."
2. "Robert, LL.D. born at Cockington; æt. 6 in 1620; Archdeacon of Exeter 1662; Rector of East Portlemouth, Devon; bur. there 19 Sept. 1688."
3. "Edward, æt. 5 in 1620; living 1653."
4. "John, aged 3 months in 1620."
5. "Col. Theodore, died 1683, æt. 63; monument in Spanish Town, Jamaica; mar. Dorothy, dau. of . . . Wale, m. 1676."
6. "George, a Captain of horse; living 1660."
7. "Walter"
8. "James"
1. "Frances, æt. 3 in 1620; died 1634."
2. "Elizabeth, æt. 2 in 1620."
3. "Bridget, bapt. at Cockington 20 Jan. 1629."
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Pages 84-85 accessed at: archive.org
Table VII on p.97 accessed at: archive.org
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.

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"Mathew Hatch made declaration that Elizabeth Cary, the relict of George Cary of Cockington, and mother of Henry Cary of Cockington, in Devon, Knight, and sometimes called Elizabeth Seymour, also mother of Robert (of whom Westcote's Devonshire, page 511 states, married Christin, daughter and heir of Wm Strechley, Esq.) also mother of Edward, John, Theodore, George, Walter and James, sons, and Frances, Elizabeth and Bridget, daughters of the above George and Elizabeth, were all living and in good health."
This is dated June 15th, 1646.
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Note: Although the writer of this does not say so, this "Mathew Hatch" must be the servant of Sir Henry Cary, referred to in Devon Carys, Vol. I, p.276. (See reference source #1. above)