[Illustration] An old Devonshire family, descended from Robert le
Wrey, who lived in the second of Stephen (1136-7), and whose son was
seated at Wrey, in the parish of Moreton-Hamstead, in that county. A
match with the heiress of Killigrew removed the Wreys into Cornwall,
and Trebigh became their principal house, until, by the marriage of
Sir Chichester Wrey, the second Baronet, with one of the
co-heiresses of Edward Bourchier, fourth Earl of Bath, they became
possessed of the noble seat of Tawstock, in Devonshire, the present
usual residence of the family.
See Carew, 117 a; Gilbert's Survey, i. 555; Lysons, lxxxix. 146;
Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 84; Westcote's Devonshire Pedigrees, 567.
ARMS.--_Sable, a fess between three pole-axes argent, helved gules_.
Present Representative, Sir Bourchier Palk Wrey, 8th Baronet.