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| Docking Parish
Register entry for William Drury, son of Robert
Drury and Marie (Radcliffe), baptised March 26,
1604. According to the pedigree chart from the
Docking Parish Register, William is the only son
of Robert, Gentleman of Docking, who did not die
without issue. |
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Within the Norfolk Order
Book 1657-1668 at the Norfolk Record Office, Norwich, are
a number of Court Orders pertaining to an allowance to be
paid by the people of Docking, to Robert Drury of
Docking. Entries exist from October 1659; a
"continuance of the allowance" recorded in
August 1660, and apparently a final order for payment in
May, 1663. The first and last entries are transcribed
below.
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| ~ Docking
Overseers to Make Allowance to Robert Drury:
October, 1659 ~ Norfolk Order Book
1657-1668
October, 1659,
Fakenham: "Robert Drury"
It is ordered by
this Court that Robert Drury of Docking shall for
the tyme to pay rent weekely and every weeke have
allowed him two shillings to be paid by ye
overseers of the parish of Docking untill other
order to the contrary.
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| ~ Final
Allowance to Robert Drury by the Inhabitants of
Docking: May,1663 ~ Norfolk Order Book
1657-1668
May, 1663,
Fakenham: "Robert Drury & Inhabitants of
Docking"
It is ordered by
this Court by & with the consent of the Towne
of Docking, Rob't Drury gent., of the said towne
do pay for hym __ ____ yearly & every yeare
unto the said Mr. Robt Drury the summe of forty
shillings quarterly by even portions, in full
discharge of all future charges & expenses in
the providinge for the said Mr. Drury.
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Who was this Robert Drury
of Docking? If he was the son of Robert Drury and Mary
Radcliffe, why was he not mentioned in his father's will
in 1624?
A Robert Drury was
"transported" from England to the Colonies by
Edmond Scarburgh on 29 September, 1663. Transportation
implied that someone (in this case Mr. Scarburgh) paid
for the transportation in exchange for 7 years indentured
labor, after which he would be entitled to a land grant.
A Robert Drury, as we have seen, was granted 100 acres in
St. Mary's County, Maryland in 1670. It might therefore
seem plausible that the Robert Drury of Docking, who
received his final Allowance in March of 1663, set sail
in September of that year for the New World, and received
a land grant which he named "Dry Docking Farm"
seven years later.
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| The 1523 Will
of a Ralph Drury of Docking, naming a Robert
Drury in the will. No children of Ralph Drury are
identified as such, although Robert is shown to
have offspring. There is no relationship
established to the Docking Drurys who descended
of John Drury of Godwick, but the fact remains
that there were Drurys in Docking even before
John of Godwick's death in 1592. |
~The
Last Will and Testament of Ralph Drury of
Docking, 1523~
Transcribed from
#192, Norfolk Records Office, Norwich
In de nome Amen in
the year of our Lord God of 1523 the last day of
March I, Ralfe Drury of a good & hole mynde
make my testament and last will in this wise?
effect I bequeath my soulle to Almighty God to
our Lady St. Mary & all the company in heavyn
& my body to be buried with in the church
yard of Our Lady in Docking, to the wh____ high
a____ I bequeath for my tythes 20p. Item I will
that each one of Robt. Drury children have our
hogs? sheeps. Item I will that Cathryn Drury have
a chetill? and Dayne? Drury have a candellstick
also I will that my housse & my yard that Amy
my wife have her dwelling there for the time of
her life & she to kepe it with repare?
sufficiently and after her decease to be sold
& to be dispersed? within the Church of
Docking be d__ of ______ goods as shall necessary
to be ___ for the wealth? of our soulles? &
all our benefactors soulles be the hand of my
____ ____ Jordan constitutes to make Amy my wife
and Edmund Alan the elder they to pay my debts
& affirm this my last will. (Probate 7th May
year above said.)
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