Son of Abraham Cumberbatch (1754-1796) and his wife Mary Cumberbatch nee Sober, grandson of Abraham Cumberbatch ne Carleton (1726-1785) and Cumberbatch Sober (d. 1826) and nephew of Laurence Trent Cumberbatch (d. c. 1829: other sources show 1833/4), Edward Carleton Cumberbatch (d. c. 1821) and John Trent Cumberbatch (d. c. 1821). Married (1) Charlotte daughter of Robert Burnett Jones 31/10/1805 at St George Hanover Square (2) Caroline Chaloner daughter of William Chaloner (and sister of Robert Chaloner MP) 13/04/1819 at Tonbridge. His son with Charlotte Jones, Abraham Carlton Cumberbatch (HBM consul in Turkey), left £30,000 on his death in 1875.

Will of Abraham Parry Cumberbatch of [the Broad House in the parish of] Hellingly Sussex proved 19/12/1840. In the will, which is long, he left his house for life to his wife Caroline, and his Cleland estate and the land known as Lammings [?] in Barbados, excluding the £5388 10s 2d in reduced annuities he had received as Slave Compensation, in trust to secure an annuity of £500 p.a. to his widow Caroline and £3500, £4000, or £5000 for his surviving younger children depending on how many of them there were up to 6. He entailed his estate for the benefit of his eldest son Abraham Carleton Cumberbatch. He left the income from £2000 to his daughter Elizabeth wife of Rev. Henry Chicheley Michell of Lymington and placed his personal estate, including the £5388 10s 2d subject to the annuity of Elizabeth Susannah Jones, in trust.