John Cory

Coryvale - Map 2


James Adair John Boughton Edward Collison Close - Green Hills George Cobb Edward Gostsyck Cory Gilbert Cory John Cory william cummings Andrew Dixon Robert Corum Dillon Leslie Duguid William Dun William Evans George Frankland William Hicks Beresford Hudson William Innes Richard Jones James Kelly Andrew Lang - Dunmore Robert Lethbridge Alexander Livingstone James McClymont Thomas McDougall George Muir Find out more about Maitland Timothy Nowlan Henry Dixon Owen - Aberglasslyn Richard Pritchett James Phillips James Read (Reid) George Shaw Rutherford Walter Scott Gentleman John Smith John Galt Smith Hugh Torrance John Tucker Susannah Matilda Ward Susannah Matilda Ward William Charles Wentworth John Wighton Gorge Williams Caleb and Felix Wilson John Thomas Maughan In 1823, John Cory (sen) accompanied his sons, Edward Gostwyck Cory and John Johnson Cory on the Allies to Australia.

Another passenger on the Allies was their friend from Devon, John Boughton; and also John's three servants, Mary Hosegood, William Chapman and Thomas Long (Mary and William married upon arrival) and Edward's wife, Frances neé Johnson.

A former naval officer, John Johnson Cory, had retired on half pay and decided on a fresh start in a new country.

Together with his sons John Cory took up Land Grants at Paterson River, north west of Newcastle.

The 1828 census shows Edward Gostwyck Cory living at Vineyard Cottage on Paterson's Plains with his wife, the three servants his father took to Australia and several convicts, however neither John Cory nor John Johnson Cory appear in the census. The latter returned to England where he married his cousin, Elizabeth Gostwyck at Exeter in 1836, before returning to Australia where he died only three years later. (His wife, Elizabeth, returned to England and died in Exeter in 1898.)

John Cory (sen) also returned to England, and died at Poughill on 13 May 1855.[1]
Early Settler Map 1

Land Selection

At the Paterson, the land selected was named Cory Vale. He purchased further estates naming them Poltimore (Pattimore) and Vacy (Vasy).

Cory Vale was situated where the Allyn river meets the Paterson. There was a track running through the grant of Cory Vale which easterly met the track leading to Wallaroba or to the west entered Adair's grant and then headed south through Vacy, Tillimby, Cintra, Tocal, Dunmore and on to the Hunter River.

Assigned Convicts

The following convicts were assigned to John Cory in 1824 and 1825 and would have been the first assigned servants on the Vacy estate:

John Brereton per Isabella - assigned ton 1824

James Dermody per Castle Forbes assigned in 1824

Edward Gregory per Hebe assigned in 1824

William Jones per Medina assigned in 1824

John Calderwood per Prince Regent assigned in 1824

Michael Marr or Managarer Castle Forbes assigned in 1824

Daniel Keating per Castle Forbes assigned in 1824

John Power per Castle Forbes assigned in 1824

Thomas Liddell per Mangles punished in 1824

Denis Daley per Isabella assigned in 1824

John Poor per Castle Forbes assigned in 1824

John Owen per Prince Regent punished in 1825

Notes and Links

1). Cory Society

2). Arrival of Lieutenant Cory on the Strathfieldsaye

2). Death of Lieutenant Cory in 1839

4). Vacy Public School Booklet 1984

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