Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Parry, The Family
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Solebury Township


   THE PARRY FAMILY trace their descent from the Parrys of 
Caernarvonshire, North Wales, a family which in point of 
antiquity takes rank with the most ancient in the kingdom.  
Their coat of arms may be founding "Burke's General Armory 
of England, Scotland and Ireland," published in London, A. 
D. 1842, and are thus given:  Arms - vert -  a stag trippant 
- Ppr. For Parry; Crest - a war charger's head and neck, 
argent.  Lord Richard Parry, Bishop of St. Asaph, from A. D. 
1604 to the time of his death in A. D. 1623, was of this 
family; and Sir Love Jones Parry of "Madryn Castle" in 
Caernarvonshire (born A. D. 1781), and who was a general in 
the British army, at the battle of Waterloo, was a lineal 
descendant of Colonel Geoffrey Parry, mentioned below, the 
colonel himself having at one time been an officer in the 
English army.  Colonel Geoffrey Parry, of Caernarvonshire, 
North Wales, a cadet of this family, married Margaret Hughes 
of Cefn Llanfair, North Wales, by whom he had issue a son, 
Love Parry, Esq., of Wanfour, who was high sheriff of 
Caernarvonshire in 1685.  He married Ellen, daughter and 
heiress of Hugh Wynn, of Penarth.  By her he had two sons, 
Love Parry, Esq., and Thomas Parry, gentleman.  The latter 
was the first of the family in America.  He was born in 
Caernarvonshire, North Wales, in 1680.  He settled in 
Pennsylvania, and in 1715 married Miss Jane Morris, of an 
early and distinguished colonial family.  By her he had ten 
children.  Thomas Parry died in 1751, aged 71 years.