William Henry Cory

[DMC1973]

Wow, I have seen a lot of crazy stuff written This is my ancestor the reason there is no record is because we have refused to give Victoria Cross back to England.  There have been people who have come all the way from England to take it so they can register it and my family has always said No Way there is also a saber they want and again our family said No Way.  I have always been told that is how they have kept track or something.  I believe that ^(*) has the saber and actual Victoria Cross this is a person on the other side of the family as the Verdier's from France married into the Cory's from Clapham.
He is buried in St. Helena's cemetery where everyone in my family is buried everyone in that particular cemetery are all interrelated because their social class prevented them from marrying other people of a lower social class the Verdier side controlled all trade in and out of South Carolina and invented a special cotton that was revered all around the world.  The houses still stand as museums in South Carolina.
 
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[AMBLY]

Hi DMC1973

Welcome to Rootschat!

I sounds as if you are answering or adding to  an existing topic about this gentleman..  maybe this one from back in 2008?

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=297411.0

Cheers
AMBLY

[ShaunJ]

William H Cory of Wandsworth had a letter in The Times of February 10 1857 in which he states that he was in the Light Cavalry charge at Balaclava, and signs off "William H Cory late 11th (P.A.O) Hussars"

[ShaunJ]

There's an article about him in this publication:

 http://www.lulu.com/gb/en/shop/crimean-war-research-society/the-war-correspondent-vol-24-no1-april-2006/ebook/product-18570543.html

[aghadowey]

Rootschat has a very strict policy which prohibits posting details of living people. It would probably be best if you remove the name of the person you mentioned in your post (click on modify button)- I certainly wouldn't be happy to have details of the whereabouts of a valuable family heirloom in my possession spread all over the internet (search engines pick up Rootschat posts very quickly).

[Dundee]

The recipients of the Victoria Cross are very well documented and William Henry CORY is not amongst them.

After returning from the Crimean War he was sentenced at the Old Bailey to four years penal servitude for forgery.

"Central Criminal Court, Jan. 4." Times [London, England] 5 Jan. 1859: 11. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 18 Jan. 2014

"William Henry Cory, 27, clerk, pleaded "Guilty" to two charges of forgery.......The learned COUNSEL for the prosecution said it was a painful thing to have to prefer so serious a charge against a young man who was undoubtedly respectably connected and who had conducted himself with considerable gallantry during the recent war in the Crimea; but there was too much reason to believe that he had been carrying on a regular system of forgery since his return to this country, and the protection of the public therefore rendered it necessary to institute the present proceedings.  The prisoner, since his return to England, it appeared, had been going about the country lecturing upon the Crimea, and he had ingratiated himself into the confidence of a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Croydon, to whom he had uttered the checks in question........Mr Robinson said that the prisoner had conducted himself with great bravery at Balaclava, and he was also at the battle of Inkermann and had a horse shot under him.  He had gone to the Crimea as a volunteer during the Russian war, and at its conclusion he was discharged, and he had no doubt that since then he had got into difficulties, and this had led to the commission of these offences.....and he therefore felt it to be his duty to order the prisoner to be kept in penal servitude for four years."

A full account of the case details had previously appeared in The Times (London, England), Friday, Dec 10, 1858; pg. 11; Issue 23173

Licence granted 28 February 1862, for early release from Portland prison.
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C10551462

I believe you will find him on the 1861 census at Portland Prison, Dorset as "WHC", Clerk, aged 29.

Debra 

[Dundee]

DMC1973, I think you might be confusing the 'Southern Cross of Honor' with the Victoria Cross.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cross_of_Honor

Debra 

[Tripp Cory]

To DMC at the top, I am also a descendant of William Henry in the US. Was looking on here to learn a little about him. You mentioned some of his personal belongings. My family is in possession of his diary from  Crimean War. Are you familiar with any of the relatives of the Verdiers / Cory's in the US?