[Illustration] An ancient family, the history of which however is
involved in great obscurity, supposed by some to have come from
Castle Cary, in Somersetshire, by others from Cary, in the parish of
St. Giles's in the Heath, near Launceston. It was certainly of the
latter place in the reign of Edward I.
Cockington in this county was, previous to the Civil Wars of the
seventeenth century, the principal seat of the family. Torr-Abbey
was purchased by Sir George Cary, Knt. in 1662.
Younger branches. Cary of Follaton, in this county. In the county of
Donegal and in that of Cork, and in Guernsey, there are families
which claim to be branches of the House of Cary. The present
Viscounts Falkland, and the extinct Barons Hunsdon, descend from the
second marriage of Sir William Cary, of Cockington, in the time of
Henry VII.
See Prince's Worthies, p. 196; Westcote's Devonshire Families, 507,
&c.; Lysons, cxxxviii. 524; and Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire, i. 129.
For Cary Viscount Falkland, see The Herald and Genealogist, vol.
iii.; and for Cary Baron Hunsdon, the same work, vol. iv.
ARMS.--_Argent, on a bend sable three roses of the first seeded
proper_, said to have been the arms of a Knight of Arragon,
vanquished by Sir Robert Cary in single combat in the reign of Henry
V.
Present Representative, Robert Shedden Sulyarde Cary, Esq.