Shep's Place Family Tree

"Thomas, Carey's brother, to whom he and his wife sent succour, had been retired from the army on a small pension after severe wounds in Holland, and, like many another ex-serviceman, found it almost impossible to get employment, though of more than the average education. When at length he became a night-watchman at the West India Docts on scant pay and much peril, he dared not tell his sisters, 'lest it should make them uneasy.' His letters...reveal an affectionate, devout, but very diffident spirit. The world was too rough for him. His brother was his comfort and pride. ..'Every scrap of paper you have used and every word you have written me, I keep as sacred treasure.'

Many of Charlotte Rumohr's assets were combined with William's "for his home-folks' comfort, and to buy a small business for his brother Thomas. 'I could not be easy,' he wrote, 'to possess property, and know that my brother was in need.'