London and George Corry's Family

There is focus today on the wedding of Prince William and Princess Katherine at Westminster Abbey in London. Our George Corry and Margaret Cole were married at St. George Hanover Square and the children (William Henry, Isaac, Thomas, Charlotte, George, Henry and Charles) were born at St. James Piccadilly Parish in Westminster, all of which is in close vicinity to today's "goings on." The commentary speaks of "The Mall" which apparently borders St. James Parish.
The following site (http://partleton.co.uk/Benjamin1774a.htm) was prepared by someone concerning their ancestor, but mentions the places, with pictures, where our family lived and carried out their lives before emigrating to Canada in 1817.
From a previous blog entry: "The first documented record of George Corry tells of his joining the First Life Guards. . "A Trooper George Curry [Corry] enlisted on 21 July 1790 and served at Hyde Park Barracks continuously until 24 October 1802 on which later date he was discharged presumable in consequence of the outbreak of peace by the Treaty of America when the army was drastically reduced."
"George Corry and Margaret Cole were married on 2 September 1790, at St. George, Hanover Square (1), in London, England. The record is as follows:
St. George Hanover Square, Westminster
Date: 2 September 180, after banns
Name: George Curry, this parish
Name of Bride: Margaret Cole, this parish
Signatures: George Corry
Mark x of Margaret Cole

"The next record for George and Margaret is in St. James Parish (2) which borders the St. George Hanover Square Parish. This was apparently their home during the years their children were born. The birth records for their children are found in the St. James Parish birth register (see family group record).
(1) ST. GEORGE HANOVER SQUARE, a parish in the city of Westminster, county Middlesex."
(2) St. James is an area of central London in the City of Westminster. It is bounded to the north by Piccadilly, to the west by Green Park, to the south by The Mall and St. James’ Park and to the east by The Hay Market.

OUR CORRY RELATIVES (continued from 22 March 2011 installment)

Four younger sons of Isaac and Jean Ritchie Corry (William, Ritchie, Robert and Henry), moved from Ontario and obtained land in Minnesota where they settled.
William, the oldest of these four, was born in 1828 at Bathurst, Lanark County, Ontario. He was married to Margaret Elizabeth Kirkman about 1850 in Bathurst. Their first two children, Isaac William and Grace, were born in Lanark County before the family moved to Minnesota. The last two children, Jane Ann and Williamine were born in Wabasha County, Minnesota.
Williams’s time in Minnesota was very short. He died in 1862 in West Albany, Wabasha, Minnesota which was the same year that his youngest child, Williamine, was born. After William’s death, his wife, Margaret Elizabeth, was married to James Munro. She raised her children in Wabasha County, Minnesota. Williams’s oldest son, Isaac William, and his wife and children settled in Wyoming where Isaac likely died. Isaac's wife and their two sons moved to Pueblo, Colorado, where they settled.
Next was Ritchie who was born in 1830 at Bathurst. He was married to Margaret Jane Jamieson in 1854 at Perth, Lanark County, Ontario. Their first child, Thomas Henry, was born in 1856 in Lanark County before they moved to Minnesota. Their other two children, Orpha and Margaret, were born in Wabasha County, Minnesota. Ritchie’s time in Minnesota also was very short. He died in 1863 in West Albany, Wabasha, Minnesota, which was the same year as the birth of his youngest child. Ritchie’s wife, Margaret Jane, returned to Canada to her home area of Carleton County, Ontario where she raised her three children.
Robert Corry was born in 1832 at Bathurst. He was married to Isabella Maria Nichol in 1862 in Lanark County, Ontario. Their only child, Isabella Maria, was born in 1863 in Lanark County. The family then moved to Minnesota with Robert’s brothers. Robert’s wife, Isabella, died in Lake City, Wabasha County, Minnesota in 1865. Robert died two years later in 1867 in Wabasha County, leaving their daughter, Isabella Maria, a four-year old orphan. She returned to Lanark County, Ontario, where she lived with her maternal grandmother until her marriage in 1888 to James Lindsay. She was the mother of six children and died in 1921.
Isaac Corry’s youngest son, Henry, was the only one to survive (for a little longer at least) life in Minnesota. He was born in 1838 in Lanark County, Ontario. He was married to Elizabeth Kirkman (who was a sister to Margaret Elizabeth Kirkman, wife of Henry’s older brother, William) in about 1858. Their oldest child, Isaac J. was born in Lanark County, Ontario, in 1859. Their other three children were born in Wabasha County, Minnesota—William Henry, Grace MacFarlane and Robert Ritchie.
Sometime between 1880 and 1885, Henry, Elizabeth and their family moved to Traill County, North Dakota, where Henry lived for the remainder of his life. He died at the age of 52 years at Reynolds, Traill County, North Dakota, in March 1894. Henry’s children moved further west and settled in Pondera County, Montana. Elizabeth lived with her son, Isaac, and died in 1915 in Pondera County, Montana.

OUR CORRY RELATIVES (continued from 13 March 2011 installment)

The fourth child of Isaac and Jean Ritchie Corry was George Corry (second cousin to our Great Grandfather William Henry Corry). George was born 14 January 1846, in Bathurst, Lanark, Ontario, Canada.
In a letter written by Father Isaac to his brother, George, in Utah, Isaac says of his son, George: “George has tried a good many things. He learned ax making and general blacksmithing with McAtheron of Perth. . . .he is very eager to make riches but has not accumulated a great deal. He was deputy sheriff for a while; went to California. . . .next to Colorado; made nothing. Now [he] keeps an ax factory. That is [his] trade now. He is town constable."
After traveling around to several places, George returned to Perth where he had an ax factory and was also the town constable.
Perth Courier, December 23, 1870: "We regret to learn that the blacksmith shop belonging to our former townsman, George Corry, of Fallbrook was on the 17th December destroyed by fire together with all of Mr. Corry's tools. The loss is estimated at between $500 and $600 and no insurance. By vigorous efforts, Mr. Corry has already had his shop built again and is now ready to do all kinds of blacksmithing."
Perth Courier--The subscriber [George Corry] respectfully informs the inhabitants of Perth and the public generally that he has opened a shop where he is making all sorts of edged tools. Blacksmithing also done. Come up to Harvey's old stand near Mr. Haggart's mills where you can get an axe guaranteed to cut hemlock knots and hickory bark.
George was married to Mary Neilson, the daughter of Reverend Johnston Neilson, on 23 November 1849, at Bathurst. They were the parents of seven children:
The oldest, Isaac, was born in 1851 (about) and died in 1879 in Colorado. Perth Courier, April 25, 1879: "Corry - Died at Malta, Lake County, Colorado, on the 12th April, formerly of Perth, aged 27. The death of Mr. Isaac Corry, eldest son of Mr. George Corry of Perth, is announced in Colorado. He had been employed there working in the mines."
The second, Annie Jane Corry was born about 1854 and married to Henry Joseph Duffield in 1874. They had three children (George F., May Estella, and Henry Corry Duffield). Annie died in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 1892, at the age of 38.
Next was Caroline Hutchinson Gray Corry, born in 1856 and married to Francis John Allan in 1880. They were the parents of five children (George William, Robert Neilson, Clara, Caroline Florence and Francis Maud). Like her older sister, Caroline and family left Ontario and settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba Province. Caroline died in Winnipeg in 1933.
George’s fourth child, James, was born and died in 1860, in Perth.
The fifth child was George, born at Perth in 1862. He died from a drowning accident in 1890. Perth Courier, October 3, 1890: "Corry - Drowned in the River Tay, Perth, on Wed., 24th Sept. George Corry, Jr., son of Mr. George Corry, aged 28. On Wednesday of last week, George Corry, Jr., went down to the river to shoot ducks. The boat in which he trusted himself was a small "monitor" almost 8 feet long and about 2 1/2 feet wide at the top, sloping to a very narrow width at the bottom, a very small and dangerous craft. He did not reach home that night as expected but as he was accustomed to stay some times down the river, this did not cause a great deal of apprehension. However, on Saturday, someone found his canoe with a broken paddle and a dead duck in it but could not see or find the owner. Search was made that day and his coat and hat found near that locality. It was continued on Sunday afternoon when the searchers in the canal barge [found] the body in the canal. The funeral took place to Elmwood Cemetery on Tuesday. The deceased was 28 years old. His affected parents in their bereavement have the sympathy of the entire community."
The sixth child, Robert, was born in 1865 in Perth and died in 1885 at Batouche, Saskatchewan Province, in the Riel Rebellion of 1885.
The last child, Minnie, was born in 1868.
George was a trustee of the Baptist Church in Perth. He died 16 November 1907, at Perth. His wife, Mary, had died nearly seven years earlier, 27 March 1900.

George Corry and Margaret Cole Family

After the our Corry Book was published, we found correct birth records for the children of George Corry and Margaret Cole. The records at the beginning of the Corry Book are the early records which were just estimates. Here are the dates for the family of George Corry and Margaret Cole as found in the St. James, Westminster Parish register records. George and Margaret were married
2 September 1790

1. William Henry Corry, October 1796. No further information
2. Isaac Corry, 31 January 1800 - 15 August 1881
3. Thomas Corry, 2 January 1802 - 26 March 1863
4. Charlotte Corry (McLellan), 21 August 1804 - 28 February 1859
5. George Corry, 25 October 1807 - 28 April 1875
6. Henry Corry, 22 April 1810 - no death date, but by the 1880 Census, his wife was a widow.
(Henry's entry in the Parish Records is a little suspect, but I think it is our Henry. The entry lists the father as Henry Corry and the mother as Margaret Cole. I feel that the person making the record mistakenly put Henry as the father's name (which would be reasonable since the child's name is Henry) rather than the correct name of George. There is no other birth entry for Henry Corry in the records and no other record with Henry Corry and Margaret Cole--they are all George Corry and Margaret Cole.
7. Charles Corry, 1812 (christened 17 April 1814). Charles is listed with the family in the 1819 military settlement census in Bathurst, Lanark, Ontario, after the family immigrated to Canada, but that is the last we can find of him.

Our Corry Relatives (continued)

In 2007, we began a history of the descendants of Great Great Great Grandparents, (speaking from my perspective), George Corry and Margaret Cole beginning with William Henry Corry. As noted, the only information so far is William’s birth in October 1796, as recorded in the St. James Parish, Westminster, London, England records. We have found no record of William with his family in Canada. Next came a history of Isaac, second son of George and Margaret followed by a history of Isaac and Jean (Ritchie)’s oldest son, John Corry/Korry (third generation).
To continue with the third generation, Isaac and Jean’s next child is Margaret, born in February 1823 (taken from a hand-written birth record). We have found no other information on Margaret and she is not mentioned in her father’s will.
Janet Corry is the next child of Isaac and Jean. She was born 6 January 1825 (according to the 1901 Census record) in Bathurst, Lanark County, Ontario. She was married to Archibald Forde who was born in Ireland. They were the parents of one daughter, Jessie Forde, who was born about 1865. Archibald and Janet remained in the area of Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, all their lives. Archibald was a carpenter and they belonged to the Brethren religion. Father Isaac lived with Archibald and Janet during his last years until his death in 1881. Archibald died 14 April 1906 at Perth and Janet died a year later, 7 May 1907 at Perth. In his will, Isaac left $500 to Janet and the following:
“To my said daughter, Janet Ford, I further give, devise and bequeath all the
rest and residue of my estate, real and personal, not herein otherwise disposed
of and I intend this bequest to be in satisfaction of any claim she or her
husband may have against me at my death for keeping and taking care of me up to
that time.”
Jessie, the only child of Archibald and Janet, was married in 1887 to John Devlin. John died eight months later in June 1888. Four months after his death, Jessie gave birth to their son, John Archibald Devlin, in October 1888. The baby lived only a few months and died 5 January 1889. At the age of twenty-two, Jessie was a widow and had buried her only child.

George Corry (1807-1875) and Margaret Climie (1814-1875)

GEORGE CORRY 1807 - 1875
George Corry was born 25 October 1807, in St. James Parish, City of Westminster, London, England, a son of George Corry and Margaret Cole.
His father served as a private in the First Regiment of Life Guards. George was the fifth child of seven children in the family. He had five brothers and one sister: (William Henry, Isaac, Thomas, Charlotte, Henry and Charles). The family emigrated to Canada in 1817. They settled in the Bathurst, Lanark County area and later moved to the Plympton, Lambton County area of Upper Canada (now Ontario).
George inherited 100 acres of land through a grant to his father. George was married on 26 January 1838, to Margaret Climie. The marriage was performed at Sarnia, Lambton, Upper Canada, by George Watson, the Baptist Elder of Sarnia. Both George and Margaret were residents of Plympton at the time.
George and Margaret were the parents of twelve children: Janet (1838), Charlotte (1840), Margaret (1841), George (1843), Elizabeth (1845), Andrew (1846), Mary Jane (1848), William Henry (1850), Hyrum (1852), Rachel (1855), Moroni (1857), and Harriet Jane (1859). Charlotte, Margaret, George, Elizabeth, and Moroni all died in childhood.
George and Margaret were taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ and in 1843 and 1844 respectively, were baptized members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1846, George and Margaret and their family sold their land in Plympton and left Canada eventually arriving in southern Utah and settling in Cedar City.
George and Margaret lived in Cedar City until they died. They both died on 28 April 1875, (the 29th birthday of their son, Andrew) at Cedar City, Utah. Their son, Andrew, tells of a vision about the deaths of his parents: "Father was ill at the time. It was about three months before their deaths. I saw them both die about one hour and ten minutes apart. When mother was ill, they expected her to die any minute. It was about four o'clock in the morning. She was very bad. I told them they wouldn't die until ten o'clock, and the folks thought I was crazy. When ten o'clock came, they were still alive. I wondered if I had been deceived in my dream, but it flashed on me that it was at night, so I went in and told them it wouldn't be until night. They thought I was out of my mind, for they were both very bad. They lived until ten o'clock that night.

Letter from Isaac Corry (Perth, Ontario, Canada) to his brother, George Corry (Cedar City, Iron, Utah)

Perth, January 25, 1870
Dear Brother,
I had long since thought that you had ceased to exist on the earth untill a few days past; my son George fel in with a man named John Barriman who appears to be a leader of Mormonism and he learned from him that you still live and is enjoying good health. It revives my heart to know that you and your wife are still living.
I have had a good many ups and downs in the world since we parted. My wife died between ten and 11 years since. I have also bueried my oldest daughter and four sones. The rest of my family are setteled in the world. One sone, my oldest, John*, is a mill owner and lumber dealer up at the foot of bob's lake at Dr toms rapids. George, my next eldest, has tryed a good many things. He learned the ax making and general blacksmithing with McAtheron of Perth who has long since been called to his last home. My youngest sone, Henry, is setteled in Minisota where I moved to shortly after Jane's death. Three of my sones are bureried there. I bought a farm there and could have made money there had it not been for the homicidal War that arose between the northeren and southeren States which put all our buisness and calculations into confusion. I have now sold all my property there to Henry and am retired from the Buisness of the world and am living with my oldest daughter, Janet, who is married to Archibald Foord, a carpenter.
Old age is making me loock quite hory and gray. I have been a great deal troubeled with rumatisms. Sometimes I feal quite strong and hardy and think that I would like to have a small farm here and would be able to work it.
There has bean a great many changes in the old neighbourhood where we used to live. Principally all the old residents have been consigned to mother earth. Sister Sharlot died about thirteen since. Sam is living yet and is quite hardy and smart. His family are all grown up. He is now postmaster on his old homestead. There is quite a buisness up at gravely bay at the foot of Christies lake where they have erected a large factory for extracting the juice from hemlock bark. They consume about ten thousand coards of bark in the year and about 2 thousand coards of fire wood in the year. The juice of the bark is sent to ingland and other foreign markets for tanning purposes. George Gray is still able to toddle around but is getting very frail. Martin Condrad is still alive. His wife is dead a number of years. Nichold Smith Stillard and David Calso are all dead. Old Mr. Russell is dead. His sone, Austin, lives on the old homestead. Peter Conne... moved away to Iowa. George Farrell is still alive and is a good shot yet. Keeps his hounds and kills a few dier every fall. I do not know of any more news that would interest you. Perth is always a dull place although there has bean a great many improvements since you left. We have a railroad called the Brockville and Ottowa railroad that comes into Perth and then branches of up the Ottowa. Sawed lumber is quite a traffick in this country. There is about 7 million feet leaves Perth anually at a valuation of about 11 dollars a thousand which goes principally to the United States markets.
I suppose that you will be aware that Brother Thomas died some years since in Iowa.
Please write to me at as early a date as you can make convenient. It seams although I could hardly beleive that you are alive untill I hear direct from yourself and beleive me your loving Brother longing to hear from you.
Isaac Corry
*John Corry, a successful mill owner and operator, changed the spelling to Korry because it was easier to carve a "K" into the logs than a "C". Read his story in THE DAMMED LAKES, by Lloyd B. Jones, Box 194, Stirling, Ontario.

MARGARET CLIMIE CORRY
1814 - 1875

Margaret was born 11 November 1814 in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland, the seventh of nine children of Andrew Climie and Janet Turnbull. Her brothers and sisters are: Andrew (1801), Janet (1803), Robert (1805), Thomas (1807), Hugh (1810), William (1813), William (1818) and Bothia (Elizabeth) (1821). Margaret's father, Andrew, was a weaver by occupation.
In 1821, when Margaret was about six years old, her family emigrated to Canada. They settled first in Dalhousie Township in Lanark County, Upper Canada (now Ontario). The acreage was unfit for cultivation; as a result, about fourteen years after arriving in Canada, they moved, in 1835, to Plympton, Lambton, Upper Canada.
On 26 January 1838, she was married to George Corry, also of Plympton.
Margaret, with her husband, George, was taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ by missionaries serving in the area of Plympton. She was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 8 May 1844.
Margaret and George were the parents of twelve children: Janet (1838), Charlotte (1840), Margaret (1841), George (1843), Elizabeth (1845), Andrew (1846), Mary Jane (1848), William Henry (1850), Hyrum (1852), Rachel Maria (1855), Moroni (1857) and Harriet Jane (1859). Charlotte died when only two days old. Margaret and George died at Winter Quarters, Nebraska, in 1846 at ages five and three, respectively. Elizabeth died when two days old.
George and Margaret left Canada with other members of the church and gathered with the Saints in Nauvoo, Illinois. On their journey from Plympton to Nauvoo, their sixth child, Andrew, was born in their wagon (in the middle of the river) as they crossed the Fox River in Illinois. This was 28 April 1846. They were in Nauvoo only a short time when they, with the other Saints, were driven from the area by local mobs. They left Nauvoo in May 1846, crossed the Mississippi River and Iowa to Winter Quarters, Nebraska, where they settled for about one year. Two of their children (Margaret and George) died while they were at Winter Quarters. They crossed the plains to Utah in the summer of 1847, departing on 17 June 1847, and arriving on 19 September 1847. They were members of the Archibald Gardner Company. By the time they began their journey across the plains, Margaret had given birth to six children but only Janet (age 8) and Andrew (age 1) were still alive.
After arriving in Utah they settled in Salt Lake City for a short time. Their seventh child, Mary Jane, was born on 29 April 1848. She was one of the first five children to be born in the Salt Lake Valley after the arrival of the Saints to that area. In 1850, the family moved to Provo where William Henry was born on 30 July 1950. They lived in Provo until 1853 at which time they went south to Cedar City where they settled permanently.
Margaret died on 28 April 1875, at Cedar City, Iron, Utah. Her husband, George, also passed away on that day.

Corry Honey

 We found this last lone jar of Corry honey some months ago in the Beckstrand home in Bountiful down in the corner of the dark storeroom. Mark finished off the last of it a few days ago and declared it to be the BEST HONEY. Perhaps it truely is the end of this era unless some of you have another jar in the corner of your dark storeroom.

Corry Family-1968

 This is a little different view, with a few new folks in the picture

Some Corry Family Members

 This was probably taken in about 1968, perhaps at the occasion of Grandma Abish Jones Corry's funeral, September 1968, in Cedar City.