Shep's Place Family Tree

During their years in India Rebecca and William had seven children: Martha Rebecca Eva ‎(Lassie)‎, Charlotte, William Henry ‎(Laddie)‎, Ernest Edward, George Gilbert ‎(Bertie)‎, Elsie Mary, and Charles Spurgeon. All of the children but Elsie and Charles attended school in England.

In the late 1800s the family returned to England to live at Hanworth ‎(West London)‎ to a large country house with a paddock. They later moved to Bolingbrook Grove ‎(opposite Wandsworth Common in South London)‎ when William worked as a locum at St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington. The family worshipped at Northcote Road Baptist Church in Battersea, South London.

In the 1891 English census we find Martha Rebecca Eva Carey, aged 14, at school with other girls aged about 13-14 years from all over the world. The school was Walthawstow or Walthamstow Hall in Sevenoaks, Kent. It was probably a school for the daughters of British missionaries. There were girls there from China, Madagascar, Ceylon, Africa and Jamaica among other places. I hope that Lassie enjoyed her time there.

Lassie married sometime in July-August-September 1905 in Wandsworth, Greater London, Surrey.