In or before 1754 [his father] Thomas Davy and [his mother] Mary Spry were married.
In 1754 Admiral Thomas Davy aka Spry was born to Thomas Davy and Mary Spry.
On 16th May 1769 Thomas Davy [aged 15] was commissioned Lieutenant.
On 29th July 1772 Lieutenant Thomas Davy [aged 18] was promoted to Commander, and appointed to the sloop Diligence 12 which went out to the Jamaican station in October, remaining there for the next five years.
On 25th November 1775 [his uncle] Rear-Admiral Richard Spry [aged 59] died unmarried at Place House, St Anthony in Roseland [Map]. He was buried at St Anthony's Church, St Anthony in Roseland [Map] where he has a monument sculpted by Richard "The Elder" Westmacott [aged 28]. His estates were inherited by his nephew Lieutenant Thomas Davy [aged 21] who adopted the surname Spry.
Sacred to the Memory of Sir Richard Spry, KT Rear admiral of the White Several years Commander-in-Chief of H.M. Ships in North-America, the Mediterranean, and Plymouth. He was envoy to the Emporer of Morocco and the States of Barbary. He died on the 25st of November 1775, aged 60 years. This momument as a testimony of gratitude is erected by his affectionate nephew Admiral Thomas Spry.
On 5th May 1778 Commander Thomas Davy [aged 24] was posted Captain, and during September commanded the Europe under the orders of Commodore John Evans in the expedition to capture the French islands of Miquelon and St. Pierre off Newfoundland. He then exchanged with Captain Richard King of the Pallas and returned to England in November.
On 13th April 1779 Captain Thomas Davy [aged 25] assumed by Royal Licence the name of Spry as inheritor to his uncle, Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Spry of Place House, St. Anthony in Roseland, Cornwall, who 25 November 1775.
On 13th May 1779 Captain Thomas Spry [aged 25] was present under the orders of Captain Sir James Wallace in the attack on a French force in Cancale Bay on, and having sailed for Jamaica in June he captured the Spanish vessel Diana 22 on 11 November, after which the Pallas was ordered home. He later commanded the Ulysses 44 on the Jamaican station in the latter part of 1782, returning home at the end of the war having made a number of captures including two Spanish men of war.
On 1st June 1795 Captain Thomas Spry [aged 41] was promoted to Rear-Admiral.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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On 9th February 1796 Commander Thomas Davy [aged 42] and Anna Maria Thomas of Tregolls, Cornwall [aged 32] were married.
On 25th October 1801 [his daughter] Mary Spry was born to Commander Thomas Davy [aged 47] and [his wife] Anna Maria Thomas of Tregolls, Cornwall [aged 37].
On 25th July 1804 [his son] Samuel Thomas Spry was born to Commander Thomas Davy [aged 50] and [his wife] Anna Maria Thomas of Tregolls, Cornwall [aged 40]. He married in or before 1857 Harriet Hill and had issue.
On 21st January 1807 [his son] Richard Spry was born to Commander Thomas Davy [aged 53] and [his wife] Anna Maria Thomas of Tregolls, Cornwall [aged 43].
On 27th November 1828 Admiral Thomas Davy aka Spry [aged 74] died at Tregoles, Truro. He was buried St Anthony's Church, St Anthony in Roseland [Map] where there is a monument to him and his wife Anna Maria Thomas of Tregolls, Cornwall [aged 64] sculpted by Humphrey Hopper [aged 61].
Anna Maria Thomas of Tregolls, Cornwall: Around 1764 she was born. On 9th February 1796 Commander Thomas Davy and she were married. On 21st September 1835 she died.
On 21st September 1835 [his former wife] Anna Maria Thomas of Tregolls, Cornwall [aged 71] died.
father: Thomas Davy
Grandfather: George Spry
mother: Mary Spry
Grandmother: Mary Bullock