Overview:

Our Gerry Family history starts in 1644 when Benjamin Gerry was born in Ashwater, Devon, England. He was the first child of Samuel Gerry & Maria Cubitt.

Benjamin married Elianor Langdon and had four children. We will trace these lines in detail in this document.

We can trace Benjamin back in time all the way to Erland Lakae Gere in 1364 back in Sweden but there is not much detail. Benjamin’s Grandfather Henrie Gerry (1578) was born in Sweden and died in Denmark. Benjamin’s father Samuel Gerry (1602) was born in Hertfordshire, England.

Although many of the descendants remained in the Devonshire, England area, Benjamins’s great-great grandson John Gerry 1798 and his wife Sarah Symons emigrated to Canada in the early 1840’s after two of their 4 children had died. Another great-great grandson Oliver Gerry 1808 also emigrated to Canada.

This document is laid out by generation with Benjamin Gerry as G1 (first generation), his children as G2 and his grandchildren as G3.

The index below provides an overview of each family included in this document. Some members have used Ancestry DNA to verify their connections and these are shown with (DNA) included in their title.

I hope you enjoy a look back into the past. You may download this document as a pdf and I would love to update it with any information you can provide. If you have any comments, please send them to the address below.

My grandmother was Pearl Alberta Gerry. She died in 1933 when my dad was only 10 years old. The youngest child was less than a year old and my grandfather, John George Shiels raised his kids on his own with the help of his older children.

Through this book and the corresponding research, I feel I have gotten to know the Gerry family.

Enjoy reading…

Dan Shiels

dan@shiels.ca