Biographical Notes |
Note: It is said that Harriet Carey had eight children including two sets of twins; however, the 1851 census report wouldn't confirm this. The five children mentioned were all born two years apart. In the 1851 English census taken in Peckham, Surrey, we find the William Fosbrooke Carey family living at 62 Shanton 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."
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, including one set of twins.
Their children were William M. 20, Harriet 15, Edmund 13, Margaret L. ten, Emily and Mary F. 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 29; 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. When the census was taken in 1881, Harriet and her daughter Emily had moved to Prittlewell in Essex where they lived at 1 Avenue Road. Harriet, aged 66, worked as a dressmaker and took in two lodgers, Robert Mason 55, a paper merchant, and his daughter Alice aged 15.
Why did they move to Prittlewell?
In the 1891 census Harriet lived with her youngest daughter Annie and her husband Andrew McAllister, who lived at 57 Friern Road in East Dulwich (London), Surrey with their three young children: Annie five, Andrew Jr. three, and Ida M. two. Andrew's occupation was "Manager Boot Trade." The occupations of others in their immediate neighbourhood were Pianoforte Maker, Painoforte Tuner, Professor of Music and Professional Nurse.
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