The Cary family of Torquay were important landowners in Devon, and lived at Cockington Court and then Torre Abbey for almost 300 years from 1662. The Devon Heritage Centre in Exeter holds the family papers, which provide a record of their lives throughout several centuries of change in British society.
In 2022, the South West Heritage Trust received a grant from The National Archives' 'Archives Revealed' programme worth £37,000 to catalogue the papers. Here Cary Project archivist Stuart Tyler shares a gem from the collection – depositions from a court case relating to an elopement in the 18th
