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'''Henry Cary''' (1717–1769) was the last surviving child of Rev [[Mordecai Cary]], D.D., Bishop of [[Killala]] (1687–1751) and Catherine Courthorpe.
==Early years==
He was baptised on 2 June 1717 at London’s [[St Andrew Undershaft]] church while his father was rector of [[St Katherine Coleman]], an old church which was demolished in 1734, rebuilt in 1741; and closed and demolished in 1926.
In 1731, his father was appointed as chaplain to [[Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset]], and accompanied him to Ireland on Sept 11, 1731 where Sackville was sworn in as [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]].<ref>Dublin Gazette, 11 Sept, 1731</ref>  Seven months later, on 1 April 1732, Mordecai was consecrated Bishop of [[Clonfert]], co Galway. On the Duke's visit in 1735,<ref>Dublin Gazette, 11 Sep, 1735</ref> he consecrated Mordecai as Bishop of [[Killala]], co Mayo.
Henry attended Trinity College, Dublin from 1733, graduating in 1737.<ref>Alumni Dullinenses</ref>
He was appointed [[Prebendary]] of [[List of townlands of County Sligo|Lackan]] in 1741<ref>"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" [[Henry Cotton (divine)|Cotton, H.]] p91: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878</ref> and became [[Archdeacon of Killala]] in 1742, serving under his father.<ref>"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" [[Henry Cotton (divine)|Cotton, H.]] p87: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878</ref>  The [[Dean of Killala]], at the time, was [[Theophilus Brocas]], whose daughter, Henrietta,  married Henry's son, William.
==First Marriage==
The young couple were married at [[St Mary's Church, Mary Street, Dublin]], on 12 February 1742/3 by prerogative lycence (sic),<ref>Parish register of St Mary's Dublin</ref> The Dublin Gazette of Tuesday 15 February 1742/3 reads<br />
<blockquote>"Rev. Henry Cary, son of the Bishop of Killala was on last Saturday married to Miss Mary DEERING, a young lady of great beauty, merit and a fortune of £5000 sterling."</blockquote><br /> Mary was the daughter of Henry Deering/Dering, by Mary King, daughter of [[Sir Robert King, 1st Baronet]].  Henry Dering was son of Charles Dering (Auditor of the [[Exchequer]] in Ireland) by Margaret Moore, and was a grandson of [[Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet]], of Surrenden-Dering, Pluckley, Kent.<ref>Lodge, J., Archdall, M., The Peerage of Ireland Vol 6, p316 (footnote to "Blayney")</ref> There was quite an involved marriage settlement.<ref>[http://www.thesilverbowl.com/documents/1742Mar18-DEERING-JACKSON-CARY.html The Silver Bowl]</ref><ref>N.B. Some of the information in the endnotes of the Silver Bowl article is incorrect</ref>
===Family===
The Cary's had at least five children:
====Four sons====
*	Henry (b.1743) a captain in the Irish Volunteers, Portarlington Infantry, married Anne Gore, daughter of Paul Annesley Gore of Belleck, in 1767.
*	William (1745–1834) a captain with the 1st (Royal) Regiment of Foot, married Henrietta Brocas, in 1771, and was the father of Rev [[Henry Francis Cary]], translator of Dante's [[Divine Comedy]], and grandfather of [[Henry Cary (judge)]], the first judge on the bench for the Cumberland area of the [[District Court of New South Wales]].
*	Robert (1748–1800) a captain in the 63rd Foot, married Henrietta Burrell, in 1773.
*	Charles (1751–1786) a Dublin merchant, married Susanna Rainsford.
====One daughter====
The birth of a daughter was announced in April 1747,<ref>Gentleman's and London Magazine: or Monthly Chronologer, 1741–1794, p.190</ref> but she did not survive and is possibly one of the four grandchildren buried near Bishop Mordecai in Killala Cathedral.
==Second marriage==
Mary died in Trim on 1 July 1756,<ref>Limerick's Magazine of Magazines (1756) Vol XII</ref> leaving four boys whose ages ranged from five to thirteen. Henry Cary resettled in [[Portarlington, County Laois]] which is 133 miles by road from Killala, but continued as Archdeacon of Killala.  Three months after the death of his first wife, he married Deborah Hamon at St Paul's French Church, Portarlington, on 2 October 1756. She was the daughter of [[Huguenot]], Isaac Hamon, Lieut-Col of the Queen's Regiment of Foot, and niece of Colonel Hector Hamon. They went on to have four more children:
*	 Isaac (1757–1823) a lieutenant with 60th Regiment of Foot, married Catherine Ormsby in 1788.
*	 Charlotte (1758–1810) socialite and close friend of Elizabeth Handcock<ref>A. Dodd and A. Smith, (1840) The Gentleman's Magazine p.558</ref> (sister of Lord Castlemaine), and of Lady Caroline, wife of the [[Earl of Portarlington]];<ref>Clark, G. (Ed) (1895) Gleanings from an old portfolio, containing some correspondence between Lady Louisa and her sister Caroline,  Countess of Portarlington, and other friends and relations. Edinburgh</ref>
*	Arthur (1764–1812) a captain with the Loyal Irish Fencible Infantry, who was killed at the [[Siege of Badajoz (1812)|Siege of Badajoz]].  He married Letitia Ormsby, widow of Samuel Davey, in 1787.
*	Frederick (b.1767), married Sarah Hunt.
==Death==
In Henry's will, proved 1769,  he states that he had purchased a lieutenancy of foot for his son, William; an ensigncy for Robert, with money paid out for a lieutenancy of foot for him also; and £300 to set up his son, Charles, as a merchant in Dublin.  The will, which was witnessed by Peter Hamon, William Burrell, and Edward Geoghegan, also bestowed an annuity of £30 on Hector Hamon (possibly brother of Deborah's father, Isaac, and father of Peter, the witness to the will).  The house in Portarlington and a nearby farm at Westmeath were settled on his eldest son, Henry.
The seal on the Archdeacon's will was a swan rising, claiming a link to the Carys of Devon.  His father's seal had the episcopal arms of Killala and three roses on a bend, also arms of the Devon Carys.
At the time of the Archdeacon's death, Henry, jnr,  was 26, newly married to Anne Gore with a child of his own, and with the added responsibility of six younger siblings to care for, the youngest being only two years of age.  The second eldest son, William, was already away in the army.
===Burial===
Henry is buried in the churchyard of French Church, Portarlington.  His grave is nestled in the right angle of two low stone walls, directly behind the church.
The headstone reads:
:Sacred to the memory of the
:Rev Archdeacon Henry
:Cary who departed this life
:the 27th of October 1769 in
:the 52nd Year of his Age.
:This stone is laid by his
:afflicted Widow Deborah.
====Death of his second wife====
Deborah Hamon-Cary, the Archdeacon's widow, died in 1796.
==Other family buried at French Church, Portarlington==
Other headstones of some of the Archdeacon's descendants can also be seen in the churchyard of the French Church, Portarlington:
*	daughter, Charlotte Cary d.1810 unmarried.  The inscription of her death is included on the memorial stone of Elizabeth Handcock (d.1840) by Elizabeth's nephew, Lord Castlemaine;
*	son, Captain Arthur Cary d. 1812 at Badajoz (who married Letitia Ormsby d.1844);
*	great-grandson, Annesley Cary d.1851; and
*	Great-great grandson, Henry Charles Cary d. 1957 & his wife Amy FitzMaurice d.1941.
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