see Autobiography of Francis Place ed. Mary Thale p 88 (according to Place, Bury was one of his father's cronies, a gentlemanly man in some government office, who died poor and miserable in the extreme. An unnamed woman whom Place perhaps implied was Bury's mistress kept a lace and fringe shop for him in the Strand between Arundel and Norfolk Streets. Place said that Bury "sold" her daughter at age 14. At 15 the daughter had a child, at 17 she married a young man who went to the West Indies, made money, then came home and died. The daughter lived on his money but later became a prostitute. This part is hard to check as no names are given. But it doesn't seem that William Bury laceman of the Strand died in poverty, nor did his two sons, see below. He was married at age 26 and again as a widower at age 38. And the name Bury doesn't appear in any printed lists of government officials)
William Bury of Manchester = Prestwich 1.10.1763 Prudence Faulkes otp by lic sigs wit Wm Rogers
John son of William & Prudence Bury bapt 18.5.1766 Manchester Cathedral
Robert son of William & Prudence Bury bapt 21.2.1768 Manchester Cathedral
William Bury widower of St Clement Danes = Rotherhithe 19.2.1775 Mary Jewell sp otp by lic wits Wm & Judith Lewis, Susanna Norrington
Mary Gould sp of Margate will PCC 15.10.1778 mentioned Mary widow of William Jewell of London mariner, and her son-in-law William Bury
Mary Sophia dau of William & Mary Bury bapt 3.1779 St Clement Danes
William Saxelbye son of William & Mary Bury bapt 7.5.1780 St Clement Danes
William Bury an eminent fringe & lace manufacturer on Saturday last died at his house on the Strand (Gazetteer 21.11.1780)
William Bury bur Spa Fields 24.11.1780 from St Clement Danes age 43
William Bury laceman of St Clement Danes will PCC 27.8.1781 dated 28.10.1780 mentioned wife Mary, sons John & Robert, dau Mary Sophia
Nat Arch PROB18/99/32 Bury vs Bury (not seen)
PCC 10.1.1791 sentence in favour of Robert Bury vs Mary Sophia Bury
SunFire 1792 John & Robert Bury worsted & lace manufacturers 277 & 183 Strand (183 was between Arundel & Norfolk Streets)
SunFire 1807 Robert Bury worsted laceman 183 Strand
SunFire 1809 John Bury gent Strand & Parsonage, Bentley, Hants
Sun Fire 1816 Robert Bury worsted laceman 183 Strand & Bentley, Hants
Robert Bury of Bentley bach = St Pancras 10.6.1819 Sarah McWhinnie wid otp by lic sigs
Frances Barton Bury dau of Robert Bury gent & Sarah bapt 14.2.1820 St Marylebone
SunFire 1824 Robert Bury 27 Princes Sq Brighton
SunFire 1825 Robert Bury of Bentley Hants esq (& 183 Strand Price carpet warehouseman)
John Bury will PCC 31.5.1833 mentioned wife Ann, son John, sister Mary Sophia Bury, brother Robert
Robert Bury bur Bentley, Hants 9.12.1848
Robert Bury of Bentley Hants will PCC 10.5.1849 mentioned wife Sarah, four daughters, nephew John Bury of Peckham, premises in Strand held by me from Duke of Norfolk
Mary Sophia Bury bur St Andrews Hove 4.1.1856 age 76