Greetings and HNY,
For those of you concerned with the subclade in the heading, here is a small update.
As you may recall, in the past I have suggested that the Curry lineages of Ayrshire are unlikely to descend from the Dumfriesshire Corries, given that the early records (11-1200s) show Curry already in Ayrshire. I recently checked the Wikipedia entry for Corrie, which devotes a small paragraph to this issue:
"The Norse Chronicle records the valiant deeds of a Scottish knight at the in 1263. His name is recorded in the saga as "Ferus" and "Perus", and it describes how he rode out through the ranks of enemy¡ªthe Norwegians¡ªand back to his own lines to safety before being slain. Modern historians have tentatively identified this saga character with Piers de Curry. from , who was a vassal of the . However, it is not certain that he was connected with the Annandale family."
One of the references for this assertion, the book "Viking Empires" published about 20 years ago, is available on Archive.org. In it we can read:
"Parts of the Norwegian force, however, made a stand at the vessels that had been driven ashore by the storms at various points along the beach, using the vessels as makeshift fortifications, and succeeded in driving back the Scots, killing a knight named ¡®Perus¡¯, who has been identified tentatively as Piers de Curry, an Ayrshire vassal of the Stewarts.¡ã*"
The reference here is the same as the other reference in the Wikipedia article, which dates from 1981.
Hence scholarly opinion appears to suggest that the de Curry lineage of Ayrshire (in the A6535 subclade) may well descend from one of the vassals who accompanied Walter FitzAlan to Ayrshire in about 1141.
Cheers, Roy
