Wye Trows (General)

by peteressex , Monday, May 24, 2010, 12:12 (5369 days ago) @ bristolloggerheads

Thanks. Possible early connections between Forest and Shropshire Sterrys (or similar spellings) are being investigated. There's a brick wall at the moment, however, between the line of Sterrys starting with Richard Sterry, who was buried at Awre in 1831 having married at Minsterworth in 1794, and the earliest line of Sterrys around the Forest who have been traced back to a marriage at Ruardean in 1539, only one year after the order was given to start parish records in England and Wales. We have yet to connect Richard to the Ruardean line and other very early Sterrys at Longhope. Richard's line became spelt "Sterrey" in the 19th century.

Historically there weren't that many Sterrys outside the Forest. In the whole country under the 1841 census there were 332 Sterrys of whom 144 were in Glos and mostly the Forest. Probably the most famous Sterry was a chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, the Revd Peter Sterry, 1613-1672. A connection has recently been established between the Ruardean line and Sir Wasey Sterry, who acted as Governor-General of the Sudan, 1923-25. A will of the Revd Anthony Sterry from the year of his death at Lydney, 1627, shows him connected to Ruardean by his brother, and in fact Anthony had the parishes of both Ruardean and Lydney.

But the possibility of connecting your armiger in the Overs hundred through heraldry records is a whole new game, alongside seeing if we can get the one blood line up and down the river with or without a trow!