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William Fosbrook CAREY  ‎(I2373)‎
Given Names: William Fosbrook
Surname: CAREY

Gender: MaleMale
      

Birth: 1815 23 -- Serampore, Bengal, India
Death: 9 March 1880 ‎(Age 65)‎


Personal Facts and Details
Birth 1815 23 Serampore, Bengal, India

Marriage Harriet GANDER - ‎[View Family ‎(F1627)‎‎]
14 December 1838 ‎(Age 23)‎ West Horsley, Surrey, England

Occupation Printer and Bookseller
Residence 1841 ‎(Age 26)‎ Grantham Street, Lambeth, London, England

Residence 1851 ‎(Age 36)‎ 62 Stanton Street, Peckham, Surrey, England

Residence 1861 ‎(Age 46)‎ 17 Brunswick Terrace, Kensington, London, England

Residence 1871 ‎(Age 56)‎ 71 Peckham Grove, Kensington, London, England

Biographical Notes

Hide Details Note: Willliam's parents sailed for Calcutta, India, shortly after their marriage in December 1813. William Fosbrook was their first baby, born in Serampore in 1815. Baptist missionary William Carey, who was his great-uncle and the reason for the family being in India, was still working in Serampore at that time. I'm not sure how long Eustace and Mary's family stayed in India, but their youngest son Peter was born in England in 1825, four years before the death of Mary.

William was just fourteen years old when his mother Mary Fosbrook Carey died in 1829. He was 19 when his father remarried Esther Cook; but by then William would have been well into his printer's apprenticeship.

In the winter of 1838, two weeks before Christmas, William married Harriet. What was her surname? How did they meet? Harriet was born in West Horsley, Surrey.

In the 1841 census William F. and Harriet, both 26 years, lived on Grantham Street in Lambeth borough, Surrey ‎(Parish of Newington Saint Mary)‎. Their first baby William ‎[Mason]‎ was just seven months old. William's occupation was that of printer.

The occupations of others in their neighbourhood were very varied: coal dealer, laundress, furrier, tea dealer, mercantile clerk, stock broker, printer header, compositor and draper.

In the 1851 English census taken in Peckham, Surrey, we find the William Fosbrook Carey family living at 62 Stanton Street, Old Kent Road. In parenthesis it appears to say "2 Christian cottages." William and his wife Harriet were both 36 years old and had a family of five children who were born every two years: William Mason ten, Eustace eight, Harriet six, Edmund four and Margaret Lassam Carey two. The three oldest children were scholars. They also had a visitor in the household, Richard John Cormack ‎[or Connick]‎, aged 24, who like William was a "Printer's Reader" ‎[which I suppose is the equivalent of an editor or proofreader]‎.

William's father Eustace Carey died in Camden Town ‎(London)‎ in 1855 and was buried in the old section of the Highgate Cemetery in Highgate village.

By the 1861 census, the Careys had moved to Kensington in London where their address was 17 Brunswick Terrace. William's occupation was Printer and Bookseller. He and Harriet, both 47 years old, had eight children under the age of twenty.

Their children were William M. 20, Harriet 15, Edmund 13, Margaret L. ten, Emily and Mary F. ‎[I think that they were not both seven]‎ seven, Peter five and Annie three years.

Occupations of some neighbours were Tobacconist, Coachman and Stableman. The Careys lived next to the mews.

Still in Kensington but a different address in 1871, the Careys lived at 71 Peckham Grove near Southampton Court. William and Harriet, both 56, still had a house full of offspring plus a daughter-in-law.

Edmund 24 years with no occupation given, had married Elizabeth Mary Copsey, 23 years, who was born in Norfolk. Also at home were Margaret 24; Mary 19, Milliner; Emily 17, Dressmaker; Peter 15, Lawyer's junior clerk; and Annie 13.

William F. died in March 1880 most likely in Kensington, but I don't know that for sure.

Death 9 March 1880 ‎(Age 65)‎
Last Change 6 August 2008 - 17:30:45
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Parents Family  (F1625)
Rev Eustace CAREY
1791 - 1855
Mary FOSBROOK
- 1829
William Fosbrook CAREY
1815 - 1880
Annie Yates CAREY
1818 - 1824
Eustace CAREY
1819 - 1819
Peter CAREY
1825 -

Step-Parent Family  (F1626)
Rev Eustace CAREY
1791 - 1855
Esther COOK
1801 - 1884
Eustace CAREY
1836 - 1915

Immediate Family  (F1627)
Harriet GANDER
1815 -
William Mason CAREY
1840 - 1903
Eustace CAREY
1843 - 1913
Harriet CAREY
-
Edmund CAREY
1847 - 1929
Margaret Lassam CAREY
-
Mary CAREY
-
Emily CAREY
-
Peter CAREY
-
Anne Annie CAREY
1850 -