Daniel O'Donnell Coat of Arms, Granted 1709

James Terry (

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, 26 May 1660 -

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1725) was an Irish

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who remained faithful to the Jacobite kings of

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after their escape to the European continent.

Biography

Terry was born in Limerick, 1660, to John Terry, from Cork, and wife Mary Ronan. After the defeat of

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, the court went into exile in St Germain,

. James Terry had been serving as Athlone Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary at the Irish Office of Arms, and took his seal of office and his heraldic records with him to France. As James II still considered himself King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, he needed a

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with him to handle matters of

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and ceremonial. In 1690, he appointed Terry to the post of Athlone Herald. It is interesting to consider that during the exile, Terry was in communication with English and Scottish heralds when it became necessary to verify armorial records and genealogies. In spite of the dispute between the royals that employed them, the heralds still maintained a collegial working relationship. Terry continued granting arms to the members of the Irish diaspora until his death in 1725. After his death, the Irish abroad were obliged to apply to

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for grants. A collection of his pedigrees and papers has been published in bookform.

Family

In 1678, Terry married Mary Stritch of Limerich, and had several children: *John, naturalised

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as Juan Bautista Tirry y Stritch. Married to his first cousin Francisca Patricia Tirry y Sánchez-Silveira, 2nd Marchioness of la Cañada (her father, Guillermo Terry, 1st Marquess of la Cañada, being James' younger brother). *William *Margaret

Sources

* Micheál Ó Comáin. ''The Poolbeg Book of Irish Heraldry''. Poolbeg: Dublin, 1991, 51-3. * Stephen Slater. ''The Complete Book of Heraldry''. Hermes House: New York, 1999, 192-195. *

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. ''James Terry's Legacy'', pp. 22–25, ''Journal of the

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'', vol. 5, # 1, Spring 2004. * Charles Edmund Lart. ''The pedigrees and papers of James Terry, Athlone Herald, at the Court of James II in France (1690 - 1725)''. William Pollard & Co., Exeter, 1938. {{DEFAULTSORT:Terry, James 1725 deaths Irish genealogists Military personnel from Limerick (city) Irish officers of arms 17th-century Irish military personnel 18th-century Irish military personnel Year of birth unknown 1660 births Irish emigrants to France