Shep's Place Family Tree

During their years in India Rebecca and William Carey 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 1901 census of England we find the Carey family living at 41 Bolingbroke Grove in Wandsworth Common, Battersea. Father William 51 is a surgeon who by his own account is at home. Rebecca C. 50 has six children at home, ranging in age from eight to twenty-one. Elsie was thirteen years old.

1908 April newspaper article:
"LOCAL WEDDING: A pretty wedding took place on Saturday at Northcote Road Baptist Church, Wandsworth Common. The contracting parties were Miss Elsie M Carey, daughter of Dr and Mrs William Carey, of Gloucester House, Bolingbroke Grove, and Mr Albert h Hall, late of Streatham, son of the late Mr A H Hall and Mrs Black of Bushey. The ceremony, partly choral, was conducted by the Rev E W Tarbox of Upper Norwood. The bride was given away by her father. She looked charming in a white satin dress with empire train, trimmed with lace and silver and sprays of orange blossoms. There were three bridesmaids, the Misses Nora and Elsie Kauntze and Miss Nellie Broadhurst, who were dressed in pale primrose silk, with old gold trimming and wreaths of daffodils. The bride's train was held by Master Eric Quance and Miss Dorothy Broadhurst. The former was dressed as a page in primrose satin ‎(trimmed with old gold)‎ and a cavalier hat; Miss Broadhurst appeared as a flower girl in old English costume of primrose satin and she carried a basket of flowers. The ladies of the bridal party wore very handsome dresses, and with their shower bouquets added much to the prettiness of the scene. Mr Ernest Carey acted as best man, and Messrs Bertie and Charles Carey as groomsmen. Mr W R Hitchcock, the church organist, played the Wedding March, hymns, and other appropriate selections on the organ. There was a large gathering of friends, many of whom attended the reception at Gloucester House. In the afternoon Mr and Mrs Hall left town for their honeymoon on the South Coast. There was a good display of handsome and useful presents given to the bride and bridegroom by their numerous relatives and well-wishers."