Local 'of Ivery.' The family de Ivery were descended from Rodolph, halfbrother to Richard the First, Duke of Normandy, who for killing a monstrous boar, while hunting with the Duke, was rewarded with the Castle of Ivery, on the river l'Evre, and from thence entitled Comes de Iberio (Dunkin's Oxfordshire). Lower adds to the above, 'John de Ivery obtained the manor of Ambrosden, Oxfordshire, in 1077, and Hugh de Ivri occurs as its lord in Domesday Book.' It is believed the name so originated is obsolete.

1391. William Yvory: Cal. of Wills in the Court of Husting (2).

(a) Bapt. 'the son of Ivor,' popularly Ivory; v. Ivor. 'Ireland had a St. Ivor or Ivory, who was considered to have prayed away from Fernegenall the mures majores qui vulgariter Rati vocantur so completely that none ever survived there again; but whether he was named by Dane or Kelt does not appear. At any rate, St. Ivory was deemed good to invoke against rats' (Yonge, ii. 349-50). Ivory Malet, temp. 1370. Documents Illustrative of English History.

The above instance seems to have anticipated croquet by half a dozen centuries. It reminds me of such combinations as Savage Bear, More Fortune, River Jordan, Christmas Day, or Pine Coffin. Christmas Day appeared in 1884 at a trial in Lancaster (v. my English Surnames, 5th edit. pp. 508-9).Stolen from Fore bears

(3) Bapt. 'the son of Every' (v. Everson). In some cases the familiar surname Every has assumed the imitative form of Ivory (compare Ivens for Evans). The same individual is referred to as —

Mr. Iverye, 1583: Register of the University of Oxford.

Mr. Every, 1503: ibid.

Mr. Evene, 1594: ibid.

Mr. Evorie, 1504: ibid.

Mr. Ivory, 1598: ibid.

1611. Roger Bomfrey and Susanna Ivery: Marriage Lic. (London).

1663. Buried — Anne Ivory, a kindswoman of Mr. Thos. Honeylove, haberdasher: St. Dionis Backchurch.

1668-9. Married — Edmund Clofe and Mary Iverey: St. James, Clerkenwell.

I suspect (3) is the chief parent of Ivory.

From Gaelic lamharach (Iverach),. the adjectival form of Maclamhatr, i.e. Maciver, which see. The name has also reached Orkney. Sir James Ivory (1765—1842), mathematician, and James Ivory (1792—1866), Lord Ivory, judge, were two distinguished bearers of the name.

Although Thomas Ivory (1720-1786), the famous Dublin architect, who designed inter alia the Bluecoat School, was born in Cork, the name has been closely identified with Co. Wexford since it came to Ireland in the seventeenth century. This came about through the grants of land to the disbanded army of Cromwell in 1655. Capt William Ivorie, or Ivory, of Ludlow's regiment of horse, settled in Co. Wexford. He soon became a leading citizen of New Ross and is so recorded in the “census” of 1659-60. He was one of the three gentlemen appointed for Co. Wexford to implement the proclamation of Nov. 2, 1678 ordering the disarming of all persons of the “Popish religion” throughout Ireland.

His son Sir John, who was an officer in the Duke of Ormond's regiment in 1684 and later in other regiments, was M.P. for Wexford in 1692. There was a Capt. Ivorie in Lord Mountcashel's infantry regiment in James II's Irish army, but his christian name is not recorded and he does not appear in the Jacobite outlawries. A number of wills, nearly all for Co. Wexford, are in the diocesan records.

The name is of French origin-de Iverio or Ivray. The suggestion that it is a corruption of a Gaelic name, and should be written Ó hIomhairín, can be disregarded.

The comparatively modern Griffith's Valuation (1849-1854) records 19 families of the name in Co.

Kilkenny, 10 in Co. Waterford and several in the adjacent counties. At the present time it is mainly found in or near Dublin. A very early association of the name Ivory, though not as a surname, with Co. Wexford is St. Ibhar or Iberius (d. c. 500) who is locally known as St. Ivory.

1 belonging to Ivry, Ivory (France) = (prob.) Iber's Estate [Latin *Ibriacum-Iber, Ibri-, Iberian + -ác-um, the Latin-Gaul. poss. suff.] Ivry-la-Bataille is in the Eure Dept., Normandy; and there is an Ivry-le- Temple in the Oise Dept. Ivory and Ivrey are in Jura.

2 confused with Ev(e)ry, q.v.

3 used acc. for Ivor, Ivar, q.v.

4 a trade-name from the material [Middle English ivorie, Old French ivurie; from Latin ebur, ivory]

This name, of French origin (de Iverio), has been closely identified with Co. Wexford since the Cromwellian Capt. William Ivory settled there. SIF 94

(English) One who came from Ivry or Ivory, in Normandy; descendant of Ivor or Ivory (archer).

"The family De Ivery were descended from Rodolph, half-brother to Richard the first, duke of Normandy, who for killing a monstrous boar, while hunting with the Duke, was rewarded with the castle of Ivery, on the river l'Evre, and from thence entitled Comes de Iberio." Dunkin's Oxfordshire, i, 22, John de Ivery obtained the manor of Ambrosden, co, Oxon, in 1077, and Hugh de Ivri occurs as its lord in Domesday Book.

Found De Ivery and De Ivri. From the Castle of I very in Normandy; so called from its situation on the river Eure or Evre. Hence the family was entitled "Comes de Iberio."

From Ivry; a location name in Normandy.

Ivory: derives from Ivry. Rudolf d’Ivry the uncle of Duke Richard the Good, was the son of a miller who had complaisantly married the cast-off mistress of Duke William Longsword. “No Princes were more lax as to marriage than the Norman Dukes. Both William Longsword and Richard the Fearless were the offspring of unions which were very doubtful in the eye of the Church; and Richard the Good and other children of Richard the Fearless were legitimatized only after the marriage of their parents” (“Encyclopaedia Britannica”). So the Ivry family rose from a mill to great splendour and rank, and now is represented by a baker.

Ivory is an ancient name in this county. It has been represented at Harpenden three centuries and more (Cus.). In the first half of last century there was a Watford family of this name; and Thomas Ivory held land of the Dean of Westminster in Wheathampstead in the reign of Anne (Cus.) About 1650, Robert Ivery was receiving £80 a year from Thomas Willshire, incumbent of Welwyn, "to serve the cure"; the mayors of St. Albans in 1631, 1653, and 1664, were named Robert Ivory (Cl.). John Ivorie was rector of Ayot St. Peter in 1630, Edmund Ivorie of Henslow being the patron; Robert lyory was owner of the manor of Brooks, Stevenage, for a short time in the reign of Elizabeth; he may have been the Robert Ivery who was an Offley freeholder in that reign (Cus.). Probably this name is a modern form of Ivri or De Ivery, the name of a Norman family that held the manor of Ambrosden, Oxfordshire, in the 11th century (L.); and concerning this early family we also learn from Warton's "History of Kiddington" that ample possessions in Oxfordshire were granted by William the Conqueror to Robert De Iveri, a Norman adventurer.