Arms of Sir Robert Damory (d. 1285), passed to his elder son, Sir Richard Damory (d. 1330), and then to his son, Sir Richard (d. 1375).
© Aynsley Damery, 2026
From Drombeg, Damory Court and Domesday to the twenty-two royal houses of Europe: seventeen centuries of one family, traced through the records that survive.
Arms of Sir Robert Damory (d. 1285), passed to his elder son, Sir Richard Damory (d. 1330), and then to his son, Sir Richard (d. 1375).
© Aynsley Damery, 2026
About 1690 a man named Damery walked into Bandon from an England no record has yet named, and the Damerys of west Cork descend from him. This site belongs to his name: the documented line, the branches on four continents, every spelling from Damery to Dammery to Damry, and the wall at the head of the pedigree that is still the true prize. If you carry the name, this site is yours, and so is a place on the tree.
Where Damery comes from, every spelling and every telling, from the Norman baron to the Frisian legend.
West Cork, Connecticut, Melbourne, New Brunswick, France: the family of the name, wherever it went.
Contributed branches grafted onto the documented trunk, every join graded.
The family book, Tu Ne Cede Malis, reproduced in full, a page per chapter.
News from the research, as it happens: discoveries, letters and new branches.
Seven hundred years ago a woman pressed the family arms into wax. The old heralds recorded her seal, and here it is again, redrawn by hand, carrying the coat that stil…
10 August 2026
The Prince of Wales and I are thirteenth cousins, exactly, with no remove. The meeting point is not a king, and that is the best part of the story.
9 August 2026
Of all the branches of this family, the Melbourne Dammerys are the one I have sat down to lunch with. A Saturday by the bay in March 2020, a cousin called Sue, and the…
8 August 2026
Expand branch by branch. Every name links to that person's page.
Every generation from the present day back, with the tradition beyond marked as tradition.
Every documented Damery branch of west Cork, graded link by link: ✓ documented, ~ probable, ? open.
Contributed branches, Melbourne to Illinois to Cork, grafted onto the documented trunk: one tree, every join graded.
A page for every person in the tree: vitals, family, research notes and sources.
One household of the name went digging up the female lines of my father's grandmother's people, and the ladders reached the crowned houses of Europe: the de Veres and the Clares, Edward I and Brian Boru, Charlemagne and the Kings of Kiev, graded every rung, with the two failures kept as failures. It is kept in its own wing, because this site belongs to the name first.
An Irish family, a Norman name, and eight centuries of not yielding. The story behind this whole site, for the wider world.
Family history is never finished. Corrections, photographs and stories are always welcome, and always credited.
