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 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. Laddie was the eldest at 21 years old. His occupation was that of clerk.