Corrie family

[3] The Norse Chronicle Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar records the valiant deeds of a Scottish knight at the Battle of Largs in 1263.

His name is recorded in the saga as "Ferus" and "Perus", and it describes how he rode out through the ranks of enemy—the Norwegians—and back to his own lines to safety before being slain.

[4] Modern historians have tentatively identified this saga character with Piers de Curry.

[7] He was initially loyal to the King of England during the Wars of Scottish Independence and held land at Levington, Cumberland that was burnt and laid to waste by the Scots.

[7] Walter jnr had his lands confiscated in 1310 due to his association with Christopher Seton, the co-murderer of Sir John Comyn, but had them restored upon his apparent return to the king's side in 1311.

During the reign of James V, King of Scots, the family lost their old seat from which they derived their surname, when a Johnstone of Annandale married the daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Currie.

The coat of arms borne by the heads of the family was blazoned gules, a saltire, in chief a rose argent.

[15] As late as 1881, no coat of arms had been registered in Scotland for the names Corrie and Currie, although in England, the mid-19th century, Sir Frederick Currie, 1st Baronet was granted arms blazoned gules, a saltire couped argent in chief a rose of the last barbed and seeded proper.

[15][16] The mother of the first earl descended from John Curry from Dumfries, who settled in Belfast as a merchant, in 1641.