▶Date of birth:  1752        Place of birth: Roscommon, Ireland

▶Father:   William Cary    Mother: -

▶Spouse(s):  (Catherine?) Tomlinson    Date(s) of marriage:  1797     Place(s) of marriage: -

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Church of Ireland)

▶Lifestory: Although he lived for much of his life as a clergyman in Ireland, Oliver Cary (sometimes Carey) retired to Cheltenham. He was born in 1752 in Roscommon, the son of William Cary, a farmer from Co. Roscommon in Ireland. Cary was educated at Trinity College, Dublin from 1777, BA 1781, MA 1810. He lived for much of his life in Roscommon; in the late 1790s he lived in Elphin, Roscommon. In 1797 he married Miss Tomlinson, of Stephen’s Green in Dublin; he was the son-in-law of the John Law, Church of Ireland Bishop of Elphin (1795-1810), whose wife was Anne (née Plaskett, but previously married to John Tomlinson), so his wife Miss Tomlinson (perhaps Catherine Tomlinson) may have been a relation. He was appointed by his father-in-law to become Archdeacon of Elphin in 1798, and resigned the office in favour of the Prebendal stall of Kilcooley at Elphin Cathedral in 1809.

His residence at Roscommon was called Hazelbrook; he was non-resident in, and twelve miles distant from, the parishes associated with his prebendal stall (where there was no glebe land and a suitable residence could not be obtained), and disputes arose in 1824 over his entitlement to the full tithe allowance for office (which included the parishes of Kilgeffin, Ardclare, Killuken, Tumna, Creeve, Shankill, and Kilmacumsy). In 1826 he petitioned the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Thomas Manners Sutton, to allow him to stand down from the position of Magistrate that he had held in Roscommon for the previous forty years, because of age and infirmity.

Cary moved, in his retirement, to live in the vicinity of Cheltenham, though he still retained an interest in Ireland though parishes in Roscommon attached to him through his prebendary stall; in 1831 he gave £2 to the Revd. John Browne, of Holy Trinity near Pittville, in support of the Irish peasantry in distress through the famines. He had a commercial interest in Pittville, and he mortgaged and then bought 12-15 Pittville Villas (now 38-44 Prestbury Road) in 1840-1; in 1840 he also took out a mortgage on Southend House (now also 32 Prestbury Road).

He died at the Parsonage, Charlton Kings in 1846, at the age of ninety-four.

▶Moved to Pittville from: (non-resident)       Moved from Pittville to:

▶Date of death:  24 May 1846      Place of death: Parsonage, Charlton Kings

▶Date of burial:  29 May 1946       Place of burial:  Charlton Kings

▶Notes:  Wikipedia; https://csorp.nationalarchives.ie/search/index.php?browse=true&category=27&subcategory=190&offset=510&browseresults=true; Dublin Evening Mail 16 July 1824         ID: 8332

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden