![]() ![]() The Nottinghamshire Barrys came to the county at an early date. Here again, we have the family claim that the de Insulas were Barrys. ![]() These different names appear to describe members of the same family-de Insula, which means “of the island,” speaking of the island home de Glamorgan, of the county where their lands chiefly lay, and to which the island was adjacent and de Barri, from the island's name. In the early annals of Lenton Priory we meet with the names of de Insula, 1 de Glamorgan, and de Barri in close association. It was a family tradition that the Nottinghamshire Barrys were closely akin to those of Glamorganshire and Pembrokeshire, and the tradition seems to be sound. The island name came from its being the abode of a Celtic Saint Baroche. The curious claim of Pendock Barry Barry that the island was named after the family, is an inversion of fact. It is said that they lived at La Barre in the Cotentin, Normandy, and took their name from that place but it is more probable that the name de Barre or de Barri, as it was first spelt, was derived from the island of Barry which was part of the South Wales estates bestowed upon this family by the Conqueror. The family of Barry claim to descend from a Norman noble who joined the Conqueror at the invasion of England. When the Tollerton estate was sold in 1873 it was described as “Formerly the seat of Pendock Barry Barry, Esquire, deceased, whose ancestors have, it is believed, been seated at Tollerton from nearly the date of the Conquest.” This was no flight of fancy, but in accordance with fact. You are in: Home > Places > Sidney Pell Potter, A History of Tollerton (1929)
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