Person:Grace Cary (1)

« ... In 1634 he had married his neighbor Amy, daughter of Sir James Bagge, of Saltram, and on coming into his estate was already the father of two of his five recorded children.
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In June, 1652, Sir Henry Cary's wife died and was buried at Cockington, leaving him with five children, the eldest, Grace, twelve years of age, and the youngest, Hastings, christened on May 12, 1652, and so doubtless the cause of his mother's death. The tradition is that after parting with Cockington, Sir Henry took his motherless children and left England. Prince says he "was forced to travel beyond seas into foreign countries," and suggests that it was into France and the Low Countries.(fn) Wherever he went. Sir Henry soon returned to England and brought his children with him; when, we do not know. He had meanwhile married a second time Mary Chichester, a niece of that lord deputy of Ireland who succeeded Sir George Cary. This lady was already twice a widow, but her third husband buried her with her first, in Marystow Church, in 1657."(fn) ...
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... In the meanwhile, on February l0, 1663, Sir Henry had married his daughter Grace, now twenty-one, to one "Robert Busby of St. Bride's, London, gent., bachelor, aged about 25," and doubtless feeling on her departure the lack of any feminine care in his household, whatever that household was, in May, 1663, himself married a third wife, one Martha Andrews, describing himself as "of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, widower, age 46," and the lady as "spinster, age 30,"(fn)
We may hope that Sir Henry had some happiness in this last marriage, for he was evidently consuming his heart with hope deferred in respect of substantial relief from the king. He did not have much longer to wait for eternal relief. On October 4, 1665, he was buried in the cloister of Westminster Abbey.(fn) Practically his line ended with him. His sons all died young, some before, some after their father, and were buried in London.(fn)
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« The children of Sir Henry Cary and Amy Bagge, his first wife, as recorded in the Cockington parish register (Dymond, H. & G., viii, 100) were: (i) GRACE baptized January 17, 1640; (ii) EDWARD, baptized June 9, 1642; (iii) HENRY, baptized September 26, 1643; (iv) RICHARD, baptized April 27, 1646; and (v) HASTINGS, baptized May 16, 1652. It seems probable that Hastings died an infant, his mother having certainly died in childbirth of him; at all events there is no further record of him. Edward was buried in the cloister of Westminster Abbey January 13, 1661, where his father was buried beside him October 4, 1665, and his brother Henry August 16, 1667. The last surviving son, Richard, administered August 1, 1669, on the estate of his mother, "D^na Araia Cary, vid. nup^r de Cockington in Com. Devon, defunct." (P.C.C. Admon. Act Book, 1669. There was a mistake in the description as widow, for the parish register of Cockington, as quoted by Dymond in H. & G., viii, 101, shows her burial June 16, 1652.) He could not have done this if either of his older brothers was then alive. Finally, it being remembered that the only daughter, Grace, had married, February 10, 1663, Robert Busby of St. Bride's, London (Chester, Westminster Marriage Licenses), we find the will of Richard Cary dated February 8, 1671, and proved March 19 following (P.C.C. Duke, 35), whereby he describes himself as "of the parish of St. Brides, London, Esquire," and leaves his entire estate to his "dear sister Grace Busby, wife of Robert Busby of said parish, woolen draper." This was apparently the extinction of Sir Henry Cary's name. »
Source:Harrison, Fairfax. Devon Carys
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« MARRIAGE ALLEGATIONS IN THE REGISTRY OF THE / VICAR-GENERAL OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
1662-3
Feb. 10 Robert Busby, of St Bride's, London, Gent, Bachr, about 25, & Grace Cary, of St Giles in Fields, Spr, abt 21 ; consent of father Sir Henry Cary, Kt.; at St Mary’s Whitechapel, St Dunstan’s East, or Gray’s Inn Chapel. » Google Books