Notes on Barry genealogy in England and Wales . d as Barre was Barte. The authority of the BattleAbbey Roll as it was last seen cannot, hoAvever, be accepted as ofmuch value. Even the date of its origin is variously stated as beingbetween 1066 and 1087, and, whatever it may have been, there seems tobe little doubt that many families who wished to trace their descent fromthe Norman conquerors, induced the monks who were custodians of theroll to insert their names in it long after its original has been said that the Battle Abbey Roll was compiled from amuster roll supposed to have
Notes on Barry genealogy in England and Wales . d as Barre was Barte. The authority of the BattleAbbey Roll as it was last seen cannot, hoAvever, be accepted as ofmuch value. Even the date of its origin is variously stated as beingbetween 1066 and 1087, and, whatever it may have been, there seems tobe little doubt that many families who wished to trace their descent fromthe Norman conquerors, induced the monks who were custodians of theroll to insert their names in it long after its original has been said that the Battle Abbey Roll was compiled from amuster roll supposed to have been made in Normandy before the Conquerorsarmy sailed for England. This roll is known as the Dives Roll, taking * Note.—In default of any registered armorial bearings in 1860 the old shield barre wasengraved on the^ tomb of Sir Charles Barry in Westminster Abbey, and subsequently a grant of arms(the shield barre with a heraldic difference, and for crest a griffin with a rose and portcullis) has beenmade to his descendants (see Appendix F).. GATEWAY OF BARKY CASTLE IN I905. 17 its name from the village of that name, and for our present purposes it isremarkable that neither the name of Barry, Barre, nor Barte appearedin the Dives Boll. It is also observable that the earliest spelling ofour name in other records was Barri and not Barry or Barre as in theBattle Abbey Eoll. But quite irrespective of the Battle Abbey Roll, it is unquestionablethat a certain Odo de Barri came into Pembrokeshire during thereign of the Conqueror or of William Rufus, and received a grant oflands at Manorbier, near Tenby, which he transmitted to his sonWilliam. We know that in those reigns the Normans built several castlesin South Wales, and in particular that Arnulph de Montgomerybuilt Pembroke Castle about 1090, where he was besieged by theWelsh in 1092 and again in 1094. There seems to be no doubt thatone and probably both of these two de Barris were connected by servicewith Arnulph de Montgomery,
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