Roger Donne’s Miscellany: Descendants of Benjamin Snell

SPRY

Parents

James SPRY = Jane WAY

Married 16 Oct 1775, Stoke Damerel, Devon

Jane

Alias Jane SPRY

Children

Susanna

Born 17 Oct 1777, Stoke Damerel, Devon
Christened 26 Apr 1779, Stoke Damerel, Devon

James = Mary HOBBS > Family

Married 16 Jun 1801, Stoke Damerel

James

Christened 26 Apr 1779, Stoke Damerel, Devon
Died 18 Mar 1852, Stoke Damerel, Devon
Buried 24 Mar 1852, Stoke Damerel, Devon
James Spry, butcher, listed in Cumberland Street in Pigot's Directory of 1822
A copy of James Spry's will is held in the Devon Record Office at Exeter (Ref 1078/IRW/S/1229. The will was made on 23 Dec 1847. It appoints son John Spry as executor and leaves to him the bulk of the property owned by James Spry, including houses 88 Cambridge Street, the public house called 'The Union Inn', 12 St. John Street, and 2 Cumberland Street. His wife Alice Spry receives an annuity of £20 and the income in rents from the lettings. In a codicil, a second son William Spry is mentioned who gets £50 and James Spry's silver watch!

Mary

Alias Mary SPRY
Born ABT 1789
Buried 17 Mar 1822, Stoke Damerel, Devon

Jane

Christened 1 Jan 1781, Stoke Damerel, Devon

Sarah

Christened 18 Mar 1783, Stoke Damerel, Devon