1927: Dec 7th

To: Miss Barry – We assume this to be Emily (Mimmie) Eupetoria Barry
From: Revd Charles Alfred Barry - High Street, Boston Spa, Yorkshire

Dear Miss Barry
Since you tell me that your sister Mrs Dunnington-Jefferson takes an interest in such things, I have pleasure in sending the notes over-page for her. If they contain anything of any interest to yourself my pleasure will be increased, as it is by adding my good wishes for a Happy Christmas and New Year.

Yours sincerely
Charles Alfred Barry

I fervently hope that I have not bored you with this stuff before: - I think not, but my memory begins to play me trick sometimes.

Transcript of Family Pedigree:

I believe, a Robert Barry (died 1696) (= Ann unknown) a son of one of the above sons of William Barry whose surviving son of Robert born 1684 (had three sisters, Ann, Mary and Elizabeth) – Will prove to have died at Guisborough and to have been father to John Barry (died 1759/60) = Elizabeth there, probably the parents of Robert Barry = Dorothy Easterby (born 1718/19).
Will link your family to the above Pedigree.

* I may add that Francis is a characterise Christian Name with the Barrys of Snainton in time past.]
The Simon was apparently, named after Simon Blakey who married a sister of Stephen Tempest (of Broughton.)

* [1] http://1066.co.nz/Mosaic%20DVD/library/Battle%20Roll/Barre.html

1927: Dec 27th

To: Mrs J D Dunnington Jefferson – 19 Iverna Gardens, Kensington, London W8
From: Rev Charles Alfred Barry - High Street, Boston Spa, Yorkshire.

Dear Mrs Dunnington-Jefferson.
Please do not trouble to acknowledge the little note than I append only because it may have some possible interest for you – Yours vey truly Charles Alfred Barry

(The surname of ”Barrè” is from La Barrè in the Cotenin)

The Surname “Barrè” or Barry, North of the Wash before 1600

The surname of Barry (originally Barre) is of very local occurrence being confined for long to Nottinghamshire, but extending later into Yorkshire. The instances, probably all attach to one stock, settled by 1139 in Nottinghamshire but extending later into Yorkshire. The instances, probably, all attach to one stock, settled by 1139 in Nottinghamshire, at Teversal, and Torlaston (the present Tollerton), the Teversal branch apparently the senior. This Teversal branch adopted the form of Barry as that of their surname, earlier and more uniformly than the other.

It is probable that one or two Barry families found in Yorkshire before the close of the 15th century (and, apparently, posing with it) sprang from the Teversal Barry’s.

The Barre (or later, Barry) families at Snainton and Hersle in the first half of the 16th century on the other hand, probably both connected directly with the family at Torlaston, Notts.

The fashion of spelling “Barry” as if “Barrè” (i.e. with an acute accent), seems to have been of late Iris origin).

1928: Oct 23rd

To: Mrs J D Dunnington Jefferson
From: Rev Charles Alfred Barry - High Street, Boston Spa, Yorkshire.

Dear Mrs Dunnington Jefferson.
I think it is doubtful whether there was the connection between the William Barry of Snainton, Yorkshire, and the Thomas Barry of Tollerton, Notts that I set out in the Pedigree you received from me a while ago.
The point in the “Barry of Torlaston” pedigree as given in Thorston’s Notts, that seemed cleared up by a connection of the kind, seems capable of another solution.
An old friend and fellow-curate of mine has been busy with research in connection with the parish of Tollerton of which he is a former rector; - I have been in correspondence with him – hence this not.

It seems that there was a curious duplication of names in Yorkshire and at Tollerton at the same time.
So it is best to start with the Barry’s at Snainton – he unearthed in Henry VII reign; and leave it at that for future researches. - Yours truly - Charles Alfred Barry

1928: Nov 4th

To: Mrs J D Dunnington Jefferson.
From: Rev Charles Alfred Barry - High Street, Boston Spa, Yorkshire.

Dear Mrs Dunnington Jefferson,

The obscurity in the Pedigree of the Barrys at Torlaston is gone.
If the Pedigree I sent you is corrected thus –

Hugh Barry, (died 1506) had a son and heir Thomas at Torlaston
William Barry (Will 1547) at Snainton Pickering-lithe Yorkshire

All the rest remains as before
Your truly - Charles Alfred Barry

It seems that the Barrys at Torlaston originated from Barry island of Cardiff and NOT from the Cotentin.

1928: Nov 8th

To: Mrs L D Dunnington Jefferson – 19 Iverna Gardens, Kensington W8
From: Revd Charles Alfred Barry – High Street, Boston Spa, Yorkshire

Dear Mrs Dunnington Jefferson

Thank you for your kind letter.
My anxiety to keep you informed up to date, and my fear of boring you, must be my apology for the rapid succession of confusing bulletins that you have endured so patiently, and that patience encourages me to try whether I cannot put the state of affairs more clearly if less tersely.
My own family is certainly connected with the family at Snainton – My 5th great grandfather being born there between 1645 and 1650 (I have not got the exact date).
That your family and that at Snainton are also connected is, I believe, clearly witnessed by the Christian name of Francis being found in both, being peculiar to them, and so characteristic of them.
But the Barrys (or “Barre’s” to give an early spelling) were at Snainton temp Henry VII and Henry VIII.
It is quite true that at present “no evidence is left of any connection between the Barrys of Torlaston Notts and my own family in Yorkshire”. But connections between the two families is till pointed to, and is the only likely one; - While the linkage Hugh Barry of Toraston Notts ……. William Barry of Snainton Pickering-lithe Yorkshire remains far from unlikely.
Evidence in respect to the matter may turn up at the Nottinghamshire end at any time, as research in connection with the Torlaston Barrys is till proceeding.

Yours sincerely
Charles Alfred Barry.

P.S. I think we can put it that the surname of Barry was undoubtedly borne by a Norman family who “owned the island of Barry and property on the neighbouring coast of Glamorgan in the time of Stephen or Henry II, took their name from the island, and probably came from Normandy about Stephen’s time or not long before: - and were so far “French”.

1929: March 11th

To: L. D. Dunnington Jefferson – Flat 12, 14 Campden house Court, Kensington, London, W8.
From: Rev Charles Alfred Barry - High Street, Boston Spar, Yorkshire.

Dear Mrs Dunnington Jefferson.
I think it is quite clear that a Thomas Barry of Tollerton, Notts, the son of John & Matilda Barry of that place, sold out there to a kinsman in 1330, and is found an under-forester in Pickering Forest in 1336, a tenant on the lands of William de Pickering. (The fact that William de Pickering and his brother and hair the Dean of York held a mortgage on the Manor of Teversal between 1303 and 1328 is an interesting mark of the concern with Notts’ of the Pickering Family about that time).

I also think, that with the exception of two newcomers, (one, from Santry co Dublin, settled about 1690 in Hull & Wauldby, the other from London, settled about 1760 at Easingwold) – I think it may be safely said, that, with these exceptions, every Barry family in Yorkshire up to say 1760, was descendant from Thomas Barry mentioned above.

The connection with the family at Snainton seem to have run thus….

This William and Joan Barry left 5 sons

John, Stuntington, Robert, Simon & Francis (this last a minor in 1618)
John was my 7th Great Grandfather and I feel confident that your family also spring from one of these sons though I cannot trace the connection (as I said before, the Christian name of Francis processed by both, is a convincing link to me).

I remain – Yours Truly – Charles Albert Barry.

Note:
You like a note of the Tollerton part. You will see that its beginning links to Wales.

Thomas Barry at Tollerton Will 1330 (see over page

Extract from Mercer Chronical

THICKET PRIORY
YORK

Thomas Warren Mercer born 1797 - Married Sept 2nd 1819 – Died Dec 24th 1876.
The Revd Thomas Warren Mercer was:
Chaplain of St Thomas Hospital - 1824-32
Rector of Weeley - 1836-49
Vicar of Northallerton Yorkshire – 1849-1876
Married Sarah Camell Butcher, daughter of Robert Butcher of the Grove, Bungay an heiress
She died 1871

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Letitia Mercer born Aug 16th 1823
Married: Rev John Barry Rector of Great Smeaton Yorkshire, who died 1867 from there
John Warren Barry
Louisa Dorothy who married 1882 Captain Mervin Dunnington Jefferson

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The suggestion that Robert Barry, bap 1684 very likely married Oliver of Ruston in the parish of Wykeham was the most probable explanation of how any post-Cromwellian Barry could have come by the Christian name of Oliver – i.e. through a Mother’s surname. But an earlier Oliver Barry has cropped up – viz Will (at York Registry)
May 16, 1624 Barr Oliver. Witherisse par Hamebie , Apr 21st, 1624.
Hamby-Witheris is in Spennithorne Parish close to Weyburn and close also to the house or hamlet of Tunstall in Catterick parish.
The Will. 1650/1 Bundle Barre Edward Harmby Witheris in Harmby Mar 26 1650 is no doubt that of his son and hair.
Edward is not a frequent Barry name and hence the following descent seems clear.

Robert Barre married Janet unknown
Robert and Janet had children:
[1] John ad 1592 – john married Hessie
[2] William – Will 1618 at Kirk Ella, Yorkshire – William married Alice unknown – they had two children Phillip and Isabell – Isabell married Thomas Smith - Alice left a Will in 1629 at Kirk Ella, Yorkshire.
[3] Thomas
[4] Edward – Edward had a son Oliver – Will 1624 at Harmby, Yorkshire – Oliver had a son Edward – Will 1651
[5] Dorothy – Dorothy married John Blackburne – Dorothy and John had two daughters – Dorothy and Alice.

The following baptism is at Egton 1693 Oct 14th – Edward son of Edward Barry
(The younger Edward would probably be the Edward Barry drowned (Whitby) 1717.

Entry from Pull Book: To hand 1807 Freehold Tunstall – John Barry – Ship builder – Residence Whitby.

George is also a rare Barry name – but here are two instances:
George born 1585 at Snainton – Will 1623/4 at Skipton married Ellinor unknown
George and Ellinor had a son – Stephen (A minor at his father’s death – named after Stephen Tempest.

This Stephen probably father to the following

George Barry born 1679 Gaisdale – died 1690 parish of Danby

George had a son John Barry who married Margaret unknown - John died in 1722 and Margaret died in 1726.
John and Margaret had three daughters

[1] Mary – married Thomas Horwood
[2] Elizabeth married Robert Flotherby
[3] Anne married Mr Bulmer

A Robert Barry was living in Glaisdale two years after above
Margaret Barry died – Egton Register
1728 baptism Jane daughter of Robert Barry Glaisdale – Possibly this Robert Barry was the Robert Barry born Snainton 1684.

Our great grandfather Robert Barry had a daughter Jane born 1768.

One of the Barrys of Snainton married a Coates in 1746 as a Pursgrove had done before him in 1725

It looks as if your great, great Grandfather probably lived at Sleights, Ugglebarnby or Smeaton while serving his apprenticeship with the coats, before he succeeded to the moiety off the Bagdale Shipyard, that Benjamin Coates had before it was divided.

The widow of Phillip Pursgrove of Hawsker married a Thomas Hall for her second husband – I suppose the Thomas Hall who Married Mr Robert Barry’s daughter Elizabeth would be their son.

The Nobles (Mark Noble, was witness to your great, great Grandfather’s Will) lived at Ugglebarnby, perhaps before Whitby and before that came, if I remember right from Cumberland.

The only families of Barre in Yorkshire in Henry VIII’s reign were at Kirk Ella and Snainton. I am glad they stuck pretty steadily by the old form of the surname until 1650.

The Brompton Pickering lithe Registers yield the following particulars in respect to a Robert Barry of Snainton in that parish.

Robert Barry (died 1696) married Ann unknown (died 1714)
Robert and Ann had children:

[1] Robert – baptised 1680 – buried 1680
[2] Anne – baptised 1682
[3] Robert – baptised 1684
[4] Mary – baptised 1687
[5] Elizabeth – baptised 1688

I think inquiry would probably show that this Robert Barry (baptised 1684) married and Oliver of Ruston in the parish of Wykeham, which neighbours on that of Brompton and that your great, great grandfather the Robert Barry of Whitby who married Dorothy Easterby of Whitby was their son.

The Robert Barry who married Ann unknown was probably an elder brother of my great grandfather Richard Barry.

The Barrys of Snainton first appear there in Henry VII’s reign and seem to link on with those of Tollerton, Notts, descended from Rodolphus Barre, who held that place 1139.

Yours sincerely Charles Alfred Barry
High Street, Booston Spa, Yorkshire.

Robert Barry – b. 1719 – d. 1793 = married Dorothy Easterby – b. 1725 – d. 1783
Robert and Dorothy had children:

[01] Elizabeth Barry – b. 1746 – d. 1810 = married Thomas Hall

[02] John Barry – b. 1749 – d. 1750

[03] Mary Barry – b. 1752 – d. 1809 = married in 1776 to Christopher Graven – b. 1740 – d. 1791

[04] Robert Barry – b. 1753 – died?

[05] Francis Barry – b. 1757 – d. 1757

[06] John Barry – b. 1759 – d. 1837 = married in 1788 to Hannah Waite – b. 1764 – d. 1840
John & Hannah had children:

[1a] Hannah Barry b. 1789 – died? = married William Brodrick

[2a] John Barry – b. 1790 – d. 1832

[3a] Eliza Barry – b. 1791 – died?

[4a] Robert Barry – b. 1792 – d. 1871 = married in 1818 to Dorothy Heaviside – b. 1794 – d. 1823
Robert and Dorothy had children:

[1b] John Barry = married Letitia Mercer
John & Letitia had children:

[1c] John Warren Barry – b. 1851 – d. 1921

[2b] Robert Barry = married Mary Ann Page

[3b] Dorothy Barry

[5a] Jane Barry – b. 1794 – d. 1859 = married William Marshall

[6a] Maria Barry – b. 1796 – died?

[7a] Thomas Barry – b. 1797 – d. 1859

[8a] Maria Barry – b. 1800 – d. 1849 = married in 1827 to Henry Simpson

[9a] William Barry - b. 1802 = married Hannah……
William & Hannah had children:

[1b] George John Barry

[2b] Henry Barry

[07] Francis Barry b. 1762 – d. 1792 = married in 1784 to Elizabeth Waite – b. 1762 – d. 1820
Francis and Elizabeth had children:

[1a] Elizabeth Barry – b. 1785 – d. 1851

[2a] Dorothy Barry – b. 1786 – died

[3a] Robert Barry – b. 1788 – d. 1788

[4a] Francis Barry – b. 1790 – d. 1854 = married Frances Clark – b. 1797 – d. 1879
Francis and Frances had children:

[1b] Francis Thomas Barry = married Matilda Wilson
Francis and Frances had children:

[1c] Dorothy Ann Barry

[08] Dorothy Barry – b. 1764 – d. 1794 = married in 1794 to James Wake

[09] Ann Barry – b. 1766 – died? = married in 1789 to Stephen Elerby
[10] Jane Barry – b. 1768 – died? = married in 1790 to George Croft

1728 – Oliver Barry = married at Sneaton [1] Elizabeth Noble – [2] Isabel unknown b. 1700 - d. 1788 (burial Entry)
Oliver and Elizabeth had children:

[1] Oliver Barry = married Johannah (? Clark)
Oliver and Johannah had children:

[1a] Robert Barry - b. 1779 - d.1865 = married Isabella
Robert & Isabella had children:

[1b] Oliver Barry - b. 1804
[2b] Francis Clerk Barry - b. 1810 - d. 1812
[3b] Mary Ann Clerk Barry - b. 1813 = married in 1837 Moore Clough Parker - b.1812
[4b] Robert Barry - b. 1817

[2a] Oliver Barry - b. 1784 - d. 1804

[3a] Johanna Barry - b. 1786
[4a] Mary Barry - b. 1788
[5a] Ann Barry - b. 1791
[6a] William Barry - b. 1794
[7a] Elizabeth Barry - b. 1800 - d. 1813

[2] Elizabeth Barry - b. 1733 died?
[3] Susannah Barry - b. 1733 - d. 1778 = married George Selby
[4] Isabella Barry - b. 1741 - d. 1747

John Barry - b. 1728 = married in 1748 at Hawsker, Jane Pursglove - b. 1727
John & Jane had a son: - [1] Pursglove Barry

Phillip Pursglove* - d.1738 = married Elizabeth unknown - d. 1798
Phillip & Elizabeth had a son: - [1] Phillip Pursglove of Hawsker

Elizabeth died in 1738 - Elizabeth remarried to Thomas Hall
Elizabeth died about 1798 and Thomas Hall married Elizabeth Barry - b. 1746 - d. 1810
Elizabeth Barry was the product of Robert Barry - b. 1719 - d. 1793 and Dorothy Easterby b. 1725 - d. 1783

* The Pursgloves were of the same stock as Robert Pursglove last Prior of Guisborough about 1579.