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RICHARD CORY was baptised in Milton Keynes on 2 Nov 1784. He was the eldest son of Arthur Corey and Elizabeth Wanstall.
As a young man he moved to Deal, on the Kent coast. His parents remained in Buckinghamshire until they died. There is a family tradition that he was a gardener at Walmer Castle, and that a portrait of him hung there. No evidence for this has been found. However, Baron Carrington was Captain of Deal Castle in the early 1800s. He owned land in Newport Pagnell, close to Milton Keynes. Richard might have worked for him there and then been offered a job at Deal Castle. This would explain how he came to move such a distance. His eldest son is the first Cory baptism in the Deal registers. His mother Elizabeth Wanstall may also have had a connection with Kent. There were Wanstalls in Deal from at least 1768. Richard was 23 when he married his first wife, Ann Amess, in Deal.
Deal Marriages
1807 18 Apr Richard Cory, bachelor of this parish, and Ann Amess, spinster of this parish, by Banns.
Witnesses: Richard Piper, Mary Amess
Both bride and groom were able to sign their own names.
Ann already had an illegitimate son, Henry Amess, baptised 12 Sep 1806 in Deal. Whether Richard was the father is a matter for conjecture, though if he were we might have expected them to marry sooner. Henry was raised in the Cory household.
The couple’s son Richard was baptised in Deal on 8 May 1808. There was also a daughter Sarah, born 1810, who died in 1814.
On 20 February 1812, five years after Richard’s marriage, John Corey was made a freeman of Deal, so by then he was not the only one of that surname.
Ann died in 1819.
The following year Richard took a second wife, Ann Langley.
ANN LANGLEY was christened in the parish of St Leonard’s, Deal, on 14 May 1797, the daughter of the boat builder Morris Langley and Mary Clayson. She was thus thirteen years younger than the widower Richard. She had an older sister baptised in Deal, but may have had other siblings too.
Their marriage took place in 1820.
Deal – Marriages
1820 12 Sep Richard Cory, widower of this parish, and Ann Langley, spinster of this parish, by Banns. Witnesses: Thomas Langley, Mary Price.
Thomas Langley could be her brother. The 1801 census says there were three males living in her family at the time.This Ann, like Richard’s first wife, signed her own name.
Richard junior, the only child of Richard’s first marriage, would have been 12. There is no evidence yet of whether he lived with his father and stepmother. He may already have been out at work.
In the 1821 census the following year, Richard is recorded as a ‘victualler’, licensee of the Noah’s Ark Inn in Ark Lane. The house had a rateable value of £6, the stables and sheds £1.10s and the land £4.15s. The address of the pub is sometimes given as Peter Street. It probably occupied a corner site.
The pub was an old one. Noah’s Ark is included in a list of Deal inns in 1680. In the 18th century, in the heyday of the Deal smugglers, contraband goods were landed by luggers and then taken inland by horsemen. Noah’s Ark was one of the two inns they used to stable their horses. It was ‘situated amid fields and gardens in the rear of the town’. It may have been these gardens, which provided Richard with another occupation later.
The family were living there for the births of the first five children.
Deal – Baptisms
1821 27 Jul John Langley CORY, son of Richard & Ann. Noah’s Ark Lane. Victualler
1822 18 Oct Morris Clayson CORY son of Richard & Ann. Ark Lane. Victualler
This first Morris Clayson died young.
1824 4 Aug Henry Morris CORY son of Richard & Ann. Noah’s Ark Lane. Victualler
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1826 2 Jun Mary Ann Langley CORY daughter of Richard & Ann. Noah’s Ark Lane. Victualler
1828 5 Mar Jane CORY daughter of Richard & Ann. Peter Street. Victualler.
But the following year the family have moved to Fosters Alley and Richard is now a labourer, a step down in the social scale.
1829 11 Dec Morris Clayson CORY son of Richard & Ann. Foster’s Alley. Labourer.
The names of these children draw heavily on those of Ann’s family, rather than Richard’s. This may reflect their higher social status. Morris Langley was a boat builder with his own yard. The naming of children can be used as flattery, in hope of an inheritance.
Richard, son of Richard and his first wife Ann Amess, was now a labourer too and was living in Lower Street in 1830, when he had his own son Richard baptised. Richard and Ann, with their growing family, moved to the same street, and now Richard senior has a new occupation.
1832 25 Mar Thomas William CORY son of Richard & Ann. Lower Street. Gardener.
For the rest of his life, Richard remained a gardener. It may be that during his years at the Noah’s Ark Inn, ‘situated amid fields and gardens’, he had worked at horticulture to supplement his income as a publican.
The family were still living in Lower Street when the next daughter was born.
1836 19 Oct Henrietta COREY d. of Richard & Ann. Lower St. Gardener
Sarah Brice was born in 1839 and Julia in 1841.
In 1844 their son John married Elizabeth Murray Norris in Deal. He died in 1909 at Bridge in Kent.
In 1848, Morris married Elizabeth Thompson in Deal.
The family have not been found in the 1841 census, but in 1851 they were living at 17 Alfred Square. Richard’s birthplace is given as Newport Pagnell and he is an agricultural labourer. With him are Ann and daughters Henrietta and Sarah. There are also three visitors, a boatbuilder and two mariners. In the 1861 census, one of them is still with the family and listed as a boarder. It may be that this is what was meant by ‘visitor’ here.
In 1857, Thomas William married Elizabeth Ann May.
On 19 Jan 1848, Henrietta married Edward Penn.
The eldest son, John Langley, followed his father’s early career as a publican and became the licensee of the Deal Hoy in Duke Street. Morris Clayson emigrated to New Zealand in 1858. He died two years later, during a rescue attempt, in the finest tradition of Deal boatmen.
HISTORY OF DEAL
One day in October of 1860, a small schooner was seen to be in difficulties off Timaru, but a strong S.S.W. gale sprang up with such a heavy sea that no boat could be launched that night, and the boatmen had to content themselves with burning flares. Next morning, the Deal men attempted to launch a lifeboat, but were beaten back owing to the lack of experienced helpers. Next day they launched a little boat with two oars, and attempted to reach the schooner. Soon, however, they shipped a sea, and then a large wave capsized them. Of the five men in the boat, Bowles and Roberts were dashed up by the waves and saved. Cory sank at once. Bowbyes clung to an oar for some time, but sank from exhaustion, while Foster, after clinging to the overturned boat for three-quarters of an hour, was washed off and cast alive on shore. (Laker’s History of Deal)
Richard is listed as a gardener in Kelly’s directory. If it was indeed Walmer Castle where he worked, and not Deal Castle, then he was gardener to the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, whose official residence is Walmer Castle. From 1829 to 1852, the Lord Warden was the Duke of Wellington. The gardens, designed around 1800 by Lady Hester Stanhope, niece of William Pitt, are still an outstanding feature of the castle.
When their daughter Henrietta married the boatman Edward Penn in 1858, the Cory family were living in Alfred Square. By 1861, with all the children now adults, the 76-year-old Richard was still gardening, but he and his wife Ann had moved in with Henrietta and her family in Chapel Street. Ann died in 1869. She was 72.
On the 16 Jan 1871, Henrietta’s husband, Edward Penn, was drowned when the lugger Reform went out to answer a distress signal and smashed into the Pier with the loss of eight lives, one of the worst disasters in the history of the Deal boatmen.
Richard, still a gardener at 86, continued with to live with the widowed Henrietta at 3 Chapel Lane, Deal. He died later that year, on 9 Aug 1871, aged 87.