Family / house

Wray; Wray of Rathcannon; Casey; Dowdall; Southwell

Family / cadet branch

Irish Wray offshoot from the Ashby marriage line

Armiger / bearer

Sir Drury Wray, 9th Baronet

Entity type

individual

Social rank / class

baronet

Heraldic authority

Dictionary of National Biography; George Edward Cokayne

Record basis

recording

Issued / first recorded

1689

Until / superseded

1710

Historical period

Restoration and Williamite period

Grant / record reference

Succeeded his nephew Sir Baptist Edward Wray as 9th Baronet of Glentworth about 1689.

Blazon

Azure, on a chief Or three martlets Gules.

Plain-English description

A blue shield with a gold upper band bearing three red martlets; the Wray baronet achievement includes the ostrich crest and Ulster badge.

Tinctures

Azure; Or; Gules

Charges / ordinaries

chief; three martlets

Crest

An ostrich Or.

Motto

ET JUSTE ET VRAY

Exterior ornaments

Baronet's canton of Ulster; Wray ostrich crest where a full achievement is displayed.

Difference / variant

An Irish landed and military offshoot of the Ashby Wray line. Drury's succession reunited the senior Glentworth baronetcy with a son of Sir Christopher Wray and Albinia Cecil after the Barlings line failed.

Source reference

Dictionary of National Biography, Wray, Christopher

Linked historical person

Sir Drury Wray, 9th Baronet

Source

Open source

Genealogical context

Father

Sir Christopher Wray of Ashby and Barlings

Mother

Hon. Albinia Cecil

Spouse(s)

Anne Casey, daughter of Thomas Casey of Rathcannon and Bridget Dowdall

Children / next generation

Sir Christopher Wray, 10th Baronet; Sir Cecil Wray, 11th Baronet

Documented depiction

Open depiction source

Notes / sources