« ... During 1422 Philip Cary married Cristina,2 daughter and ultimately heiress of William Orchard, of the Somerset family of that ilk, and died on "Sunday, the feast of S. Tecla the Virgin," 1437, leaving a son and heir who was to achieve the second attainder in the family. »
« 2 What befell at Ladford on the feast of St. Andrew, 1408. The fortune of Philip Cary's wife, Cristina Orchard, was the occasion for preserving to us (Inq. p.m., I Hen. VI, 1422, c. 78) a most interesting glimpse into the everyday life of Devon at the beginning of the fifteenth century. It seems that William Orchard died holding the manor of Ladford in Devon in capite of Henry V and leaving two children, a son Richard and the daughter who became the wife of Philip Cary. In 1422 the son died under age, the king's ward, whereupon it became necessary to prove his sister's age to determine her husband's right to enter upon the inheritance. It appears that although already married, she was then only in her fifteenth year.
"Thomas Dynneworthy deposes that the said Cristina was born at Lodford, and baptized in the church of St. Michael of Shebbeare; that she was 14 years and upwards on the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle last past; well remembers the same, for that his son John died of the plague on the day of her baptism. ...
« ... We have a final glimpse of Cristina Cary living at Cockington as a widow in October, 1437. (Inq. p.m., 16 Hen. VI (1437), c. 53.) According to the Visitation of 1620, she married one James Portman for her second husband. .... »
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Source:Harrison, Fairfax. Devon Carys
