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Descendants of Thomas De Che Rei
1.THOMAS DE1 CHE REI1 was born Bet. 1349 - 1378 in France, and died Bet. 1403 - 1463.
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The family CHERRY/DeCheRei/DeCHERIE has a long, proud, and confirmed history in France, England, and the United States.In an effort to assist other researchers, E. Ann Riner has presented below a bibliography of the documents which have been used in her research of this family.Other researchers' citations will be found in the footnote section of this report.
Many genealogists for the family of John CHERRY[born 1619, died January 18, 1698/9 - see his entry for information on his arrival in Virginia in 1635) have tried to prove his descent from the CHERRY family of Bray and Maidenhead, England. While no absolute proof has been found, the following documents have been used to learn more about the English/French CHERRY family and to lend credence to the theory that John was a member of this family.If John came from Ireland, as some researchers believe, "The Visitations of the County of Surrey", listed below, ties the Irish CHERRY family directly to the English CHERRY family.There is also disagreement on the death date of John CHERRY; accordingly, various opinions and possibilities have been presented from other CHERRY researchers in footnotes and entry notes throughout this report.This information is shared in the hopes that future genealogists will be able to provide stronger evidence for John CHERRY's direct relationship to the CHERRY family of Bray and Maidenhead.
E. Ann Riner has copies of all documents below:
1."Alumni Cantabrigienses", a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900", compiled by John Veen, Sc.D., F.R.S., F.S.A. and J. A. Venn, M.A., Cambridge at the University Press, 1922
2."Alumni Oronienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500 - 1714: their parentage, birthplace and year of birth, with a record of their degrees",By Joseph Foster, Parker and Co., Broad Street, Oxford; and 6, Southampton Street, Strand, London
3."County Genealogies Pedigrees of Berkshire Families", Collected by Wm. Berry, Fifteen years registering clerk in the College of Arms London, Transferred from his own hand writing and printed in lithography by E. Barwick, Published by Sherwood Gilbert and Piper Paternoster Row, 1837.
4."Dictionary of National Biography", edited by Leslie Stephen, London, Smith, Elder, and Co., 15 Waterloo Place, 1887
5."Early Lincoln Wills", an abstract of all the wills and administrations recorded in the Episcopal registers of the old diocese of Lincoln, comprising the counties of Lincoln, Ruthland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester, and Hertford, 1280 - 1547. By Alfred Gibbons.Lincoln: James Williamson, Printer, 290, High Street. 1888.
6."A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland", By John Burke and Sir John Bernard Burke, Esq. of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law, London, Henry Colburn, Publisher, Great Marlborough Street, MDCCCXLVII.
TAKEN FROM BRURKE'S WORK:
"The family of Cherry, formerly of Shottesbrooke, or more properly, as of old,Cherrie, of which there are several branches remaining, is of Norman origin,being, it is said, descended on the male side from the De Cheries, Seigneurs deBranvel, Villamara, Beauval, and Villencourt, &c, in Normandy, and on thefemale, from the Bretons, both families recognized in all the earlier"Recherches," or Visitations, as of the noblesse of Normandy.
A branch of the Cheries at an early period embraced the Huguenot doctrine, andin consequence of the religious persecutions carried on against that party,migrated and settled in England, where they afterwords became possessed ofconsiderable estates.The estates and manors of Shottesbrooke, WhiteWalthams, Smewins, Winsors, and Bray, in Berkshire, formed part of theirpossession: at the latter place a school was founded by one of the family, andendowed with lands for the education of twenty poor boys.
Of this family was Francis Cherry, celebrated by Hearne, the antiquary, (whosefather was a domestic servant to the Cherrys, and who was himself brought upand education at their expense,) as "the most accomplished gentleman of hisday:" a fine portrait of him hangs in the picture gallery of the Bodleian Library inOxford.His father, William was killed by the horses running away with hischariot, and overturning it at the moment when he had projected his head,whereby it was at once severed from the body...
Francis Cherry concealed many celebrated Royalists at Shottesbrooke. and atWhite Waltham (another of his houses), the very learned Charles Leslie, whomhe sent (without success) to convert the Pretender."\
7."The History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Bray, In the County of Berks", by Charles Kerry, Master of the Bray and Holyport School, 1861, Printed for the author by Savill and Edwards, 4, Chandos Street, Covent Garden, London.
THE FOLLOWING IS TAKEN FROM KERRY:
"Upon another gravestone is this inscription:--
Heere lye interred the bodies of Thomas Cherry, of Maydenhead, in this parish,who dyed 14th Sept. 1657.Anno Aetatis 61.
And of Ellen his wife, who died 19th Sept. 1657, Anno Aetatis 59.They livedtogether in Wedlock 35 years."
LATER, KERRY WRITES:
"Thomas Cherry, of Maidenhead, was a descendant of the De Cheries, ofPicardy and Normandy, Lords of Beauval, Liguiere, and Villencourt.A branchsettled in England at an early period.In 1407, as appears from the Frencharchives, Jean, or John de Cherie sought for, and obtained a safe conduct fromthe king to pass into Normandy.By an Inq. Post Mort, 14 Hen.IV. (1412-3), itappears that Thomas and John Cherie held lands, &c., in Plumpton, co.Northhampton and from this Thomas, and John his son, descend the presentrepresentatives of the family in England.William Cherry, son of the saidThomas and Ellen Kerry is now referring to a later Thomas, died14 Sept.1657, about whom he had written earlier on the page, describing his gravemonument, founded the Bray School Charity about the year 1682.Francis, sonof the said William, was the friend of Dodwell, and patron of Hearne.TheCherrys of Burghfield and Denford are descended from George, eldest son ofthe said Thomas Cherry and Ellen (Powney).This monument has been recentlyrestored by the present representatives of the family."\
notes of E. Ann Riner are in brackets; otherwise, statement above has been typed exactly as written in Kerry's work.\
8."The Visitations of the County of Surrey", made and taken in the years 1530, By Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms; 1572, By Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms; and 1623, By Samuel Thompson, Windsor Herald and Augustin Vencent, Rouge Croix Pursuivant, Marshals and Deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, Edited by W. Bruce Bannerman, F.S.A. Scot., Member and honorary Local Secretary for Croydon of the Surrey Archaeological Society, Member of the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, etc., London 1899.
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2. | i. | JOHN DE2 CHE REI, b. Bef. 1400, France; d. Bet. 1421 - 1490, Maidenhead, England. |