Principal Sources

• Burke’s Irish Family Records (1976): Travers, Lucas, White of Kilmoylan; Burke’s Landed Gentry, Webb of Caheragh House.
• Nicholas Kingsley, Landed Families of Britain and Ireland: Beamish; Bernard (Earls of Bandon); Beamish-Bernard of Palace Anne.
• The Ancestor (quarterly journals, 1902–05): the "Freke of Crewkerne" and "Irish House of Freke" pedigrees, reconstructed from the 1580 will of William Freke of Misterton, the documented Freke ascent from Castle Freke and the Bernards back to the Tudor West Country.
• W. Maziere Brady, Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne and Ross: the Jones, Smyth and Webb clergy.
• Alumni Dublinenses and the Trinity College Dublin entrance registers; the Registry of Deeds; the Cork & Ross will and marriage-licence indexes.
• On the medieval d’Amory: the Peerage of England (W. Owen, 1790); Wikipedia and Geni for Roger Damory and Elizabeth de Clare; Kathryn Warner’s Edward II research.
• On Spenser and the Althorp tradition: Andrew Hadfield, Edmund Spenser: A Life (Oxford, 2012).
• The family histories of Edward ("Ted") Dammery (Melbourne, 1979), the spelling under which the College of Arms granted his arms, and Norman Damery (Cork, 1994), with the French Damery material of Paul and Charles Damery; Rosemary ffolliott's Cork register transcripts. The 1750 Proclamation of the Lords Justices.
• Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland (1912): Tabuteau-Herrick of Shippool; Pennefather of Marlow and of Rathsallagh, read in the original. Burke's Commoners (1830s): Lane of King's Bromley. On the Lane question: H. Murray Lane (Chester Herald), Lane of Bentley Hall (1910); Gregory King's Staffordshire Pedigrees (Harleian Society vol. 63, 1912); Wrottesley in the Staffordshire Historical Collections (1910); the Cavenagh transcripts of the Lanes Park wills destroyed in 1922; the History of Parliament (Lane; Bagot of Blithfield); and the Lichfield probate file, searched to exhaustion.
• The Judy Wight letters to Norman Damery (1994): the Kilnameela emigrant family and the Connecticut line.
• The American records of the Kilnameela emigrants: the New York arriving-passenger manifests (the Guy Mannering, 1850; the Odessa, 1851 — the family indexed under "Demery"); the United States federal censuses of 1860 and 1870; the probate file of James Damery, Granby District No. 328 (1865–67), Connecticut State Library; and the Granby Cemetery records. The Irish land records of the same family: the Tithe Applotment Books (1829–33), the Valuation Office house and tenure books for Desertserges and Ballymoney (1840s–50s), and Registry of Deeds memorial 502236, the 1816 Kilnameela lease. On the 1685 crossing hypothesis: The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654–1686, ed. Peter Wilson Coldham (1988).
• The Devon material: the 1620 Heralds’ Visitation; the Whitechapel (Bishops Nympton) manorial history; G. E. Meredith, The Descendants of Hugh Amory (1901).
• The Landed Estates Database (University of Galway): Ievers, Pennefather, Lane and Brady; the Mount Ievers Court family history and Turtle Bunbury's Ievers papers; H. Murray Lane (Chester Herald), "The Lanes of Bentley," Genealogical Magazine (1897), with Cavenagh's transcripts of the Lane wills destroyed in 1922; the Dictionary of Canadian Biography (Ambrose Lane) and the Dictionary of Irish Biography (William Hickey, "Martin Doyle").
• The Suffolk parish registers and the 1814 will of Jonathan Ely; the family’s Ancestry GEDCOM.
• Jeanne Elliott’s work and records, and the Forces War Records for Cornelius Elliott.

My complete, fully referenced working papers, the graded deep dives, the July 2026 research dossier, and the three “wave” notes sit alongside this book in the family archive, and the full interactive family tree is in the file Damery_Family_Tree_Interactive.html. A further interactive tree of all the Damerys of West Cork is at West_Cork_Damery_Tree.html.