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THE ARRIVAL OF THE AUTRYS

To forget ones ancestors is to be a brook without

a source, a tree without a root.

                              Chinese Proverb

                               

THE FIRST AUTRY IN WHAT IS NOW NORTH CAROLINA

After receiving a patent from Queen Elizabeth on March 25, 1584, Sir Walter Raleighs First expedition to the New World, under Captains Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe, to explore the country and recommend a suitable site for settlement, arrived in North Carolina July 2, 1584 and remained about six weeks before returning to England. This was followed by a fleet of seven ships and 108 men - no women or children - which sailed from Plymouth on April 9, 1585.

In the report on "The Voyage Made by Sir Richard Greenville for Sir Walter Raleigh to Virginia in the Year 1585" as published by Richard Halduyt, Vol. III, p. 307, from which extracts were published by Samuel ACourt Ashe, History of North Carolina (Charles L. Van Noppen, Greensboro, N.C., 1908), Vol. I, p. 4:

      The 6th (of July, 1585), Master John Arundall was sent to the main and Manteo with him and Captain Autry and Captain Boniton the same day were sent to Croatoan, where they found two of our men left there with thirty others by Captain Raymond twenty days before. The 8th Captain Autry and Captain Boniton returned with two of our men, found by them, to us at Wocokon (present Ocracoke Inlet).

The colony under Master Ralph Lane stayed at Roanoke Island from August 17, 1585 to~June 18, 1586, returning to England with the fleet of Sir Francis Drake.

THE ORIGIN OF THE AUTRY NAME AND THE

ARRIVAL OF CORNELIUS AUTRY

The name Autrey-Autry is of French origin and derives from Aidric meaning "old, powerful."1 Bandsley, in a Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, states that it is a baptismal name well know in York County, England. The earliest record is of a Simeon Autrey at Johanna in 1379. The late Mahan Blair Autry states in his book, The family and Descendants of Captain John Autrv, that the name means "different" in French ("autre") and that it has passed through twenty-seven spellings. Some of the more common are Autry, Aughtry, Aughtrey, Autrey, Autre, Ottry, and Daughtry.2

The New York Times Atlas of the World lists a town of Autry, France, near Reims. Other villages in France are Autry-les-Grey, Autry-le-Chatre, Autry-sur-Jaine, and Autreville.3

Some other Autry related towns or tourist attractions in France according to the 1994 French Government Tourist Office, 610 Fifth Avenue, N.Y., N.Y. 10020-2452 are: Autreville, Autrville Saint Lambert, Autreville-Sur-la-Renne, Autreville-sur-Muselle, Autry-les Clrre, Autry-le-vay, Autry-Issards, and Autry.