CURRY, George Wesley (1806-1877)

CURRY, George Wesley (1806-1877)

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George Wesley Curry was born on March 12, 1806, in Green Turtle Cay, Abaco to Benjamin Curry Sr (1769-1829) and Mary Burns/Curry. He was baptized February 20, 1807, as recorded in Christ Church, Nassau, Baptism Records.

His siblings included Jane (1793), Mary ‘Polly’ (1796), Benjamin (1799), Bianca ‘Binky’ (1801), Martha (1804), Sarah (1808), John (1811)

George Wesley Curry and Martha Ann Lowe (1808-1863) were married June 24, 1828, at Green Turtle Cay by Reverend William Hepworth. Martha is the daughter of Benjamin Lowe (1775-1859) and Bianca Curry and the granddaughter of Captain Gideon Lowe and Nancy Saunders.

In 1835 the Land Board conveyed lots 19 and 20 in Green Turtle Cay, Abaco to George Curry for £1 (Book A).

The family moved to Key West, Florida sometime in 1837. George, Martha, Eleanor Emeline (1828), Mary (1831) and Charlotte Mary Curry (1834) are listed on an 1837 passenger manifest. Born in Key West were Mary Elizzabeth (1837), William David (1840), Louise A (1842), Victoria Edith (1845). The youngest child George Wesley Curry Jr (1848) was born in Connecticut.

George Curry was listed as a communicant at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Key West in 1842, and in 1843, he was serving in the military at the Key West Barracks.

The family eventually moved to Mystic, Connecticut, and his wife Martha Ann died there in 1863. In 1864, George Curry married Mary Ann Ayres in Mystic and the couple returned to Key West by 1870.

George Curry died in Key West, Florida on February 20, 1877 (age 70).

George is the brother of my 3x great grandmother Biance ‘Binky’ Lowe née Curry (1801-1860).

Children of George and Martha Curry

Eleanor Emeline Curry (1828-1919)
Louise Curry (1842-1920)
George Wesley Curry Jr (1848-1933)

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