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William Paulet Carey

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William Paulet Carey

Birth
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Death
11 Apr 1839 (aged 79)
British Indian Ocean Territory
Burial
Birmingham, Metropolitan Borough of Birmingham, West Midlands, England Add to Map
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Born at 2 Redmonds Hill, Dublin, Ireland and died at 6 Livery Street, St. Paul, Birmingham, England.

Art Critic, Dealer, Writer & Publisher. Author of "An Appeal to the People Of Ireland" (1794) and anti-protestant pamphlet 'Warning Protest'. He fled to Philadelphia in 1793 after a fall-out with the Society Of United Irishmen but returned to London in the late 1790's where he lived in Marylebone and Museum St. Bloomsbury and established himself as a dealer in prints & paintings. He resided at 5½ Eustace St. Dublin in 1800 and moved to Temple Place, Bath Row Birmingham in 1835. He made a last trip to America to visit his relatives, arriving in Philadelphia on 12 Sept. 1837. His first wife Dorothy (married 1788) died 4 July 1791 at Prussia St. Dublin. Married (2) 21 May 1792 in the drawing room of the bride's parent's house at 5 Grafton St. Saint Stephen's Green, Dublin, Elizabeth Ann (Betsy) Lennon, b. 1776 at 6 Grafton St Dublin. (daughter of Anthony Lennon of Rosemont County Athlone and Elizabeth Bomford), d. 27 Jan 1832 London, England. He had four children: his eldest daughter Maria Sheridan Carey who died at Portsea in 1807, a son William Sheridan Carey who died at Kensington in 1821 aged 26, a daughter Elizabeth Sheridan Carey (see below), and a son James Macauley Carey 1809-1854 who was born at Sheffield, married Caroline Baker on 13 March 1832 at St Martins Birmingham and was living at Monmouth Street, Birmingham as a picture dealer in the 1841 census. William Paulet’s daughter Elizabeth Sheridan Carey was a well-regarded poet. Elizabeth Sheridan Carey (1805-1882), was born at York 18 October 1805 and ran a school at 10 Regent Quadrant, London with Charlotte Eale Bartlett in the 1830s. In 1844 her poem A Warning Cry against poverty and oppression was printed in several newspapers in the north of England and in America; in 1848 she published a letter to the provisional government of France on the rights of women, and in 1849 she was toasted at a Burns night at Sheffield. From 1849 she was selling pictures inherited from her father to Charles Winn 1795-1874 of Nostell Priory, including a Rembrandt (since attributed to Ferdinand Bol) for 350 guineas. From 1857 to 1863 she presented poems to English and French royalty on royal weddings and funerals one of which was received by Queen Victoria 'with especial favour'. She lived her later years in Versailles, dying unmarried there on 27 April 1882.

In 1788 in Dublin, Ireland he married Dorothy Carey (1759 Dublin Ireland - Death 4 JULY 1791 Dublin, Ireland) and they had the following children:

1. Maria Sheridan Carey (____– 1807 Portsea )

On 21 May 1792 in Dublin, Ireland, he married second Elizabeth Lennon (1776 6 Grafton St., Dublin, Ireland - 27 JAN 1832 London, London, England), daughter of Anthony Lennon and Elizabeth Bomford, and they had the following children:

2. William Sheridan Carey (1792 Sheffield, Yorkshire, England - 4 MAY 1821 Camden Pl., Kensington, London, England)
3. Elizabeth Sheridan Carey (18 OCT 1805 Yorkshire, England - 27 APRIL 1882 Paris, France)

4. James Macauley Carey (25 SEP 1809 Sheffield, Yorkshire, England - 29 JUN 1854 118 Brearley Street West, St.George, Birmingham, England). On 13 Mar 1832 in Birmingham, St Martin, Warwickshire, England, he married Caroline J Baker (25 FEB 1808 Birmingham, England - 26 MAY 1891 Chester, Cheshire, England), daughter of Thomas Baker (1774–1839) and Charlotte Mould (1776–1832) and they had the following children:

(i.) Charlotte Elizabeth Carey (26 DEC 1832 29 Little Charles St. Birmingham, England - Death 9 JUN 1903 21 Garden Lane, Chester, Cheshire, Flintshire, United Kingdom) She married Hart Davies (1832–1916) and they had the following children: Thomas Hart Davies (1856–____); William James Hart Davies (1859–1911); Caroline Hart Davies (1861–1931); Charlotte Elizabeth Davies (1863–1933); Florence Kezia Davies (1865–1931); Franklin Davies (1868–1914); John Howard Davies (1870–____); Marguerite Davies (1871–1947) and Alfred Hart Davies (1875–1945).

(ii.) Thomas James Carey (19 APRIL 1834 29 Little Charles St. Birmingham, England - Died on board his ship of the Florida coast___)

(iii.) Margaret Lennon Carey (JUL 1839 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England - 19 JUL 1918 86 Tudor Ladywood,Birmingham, England). She married William Brignell "Leonard" Reeves (1839–1904) and they had the following children: Edith Brignell Lennon Leonard (1871–1943); Ellen Margaret (Leonard) Reeves (1874–____); Caroline (Carrie) Alice Leonard (1876–1931); William James (Leonard) Reeves (1879–1945); Beatrice May Leonard (1881–1961); Clara Lilian Leonard (1883–1960) and Thomas Ernest Reeves (1885–1968).

(iv.) James Paulet Philip Carey (14 DEC 1841 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England - 13 FEB 1887 Birmingham, West Midlands, England). On 10 Aug 1862, in All Saints Church Birminham, Warcs, England, he married Sarah Ann Pratchett (1844–1922) and they had the following children: Charlotte Elizabeth Carey (1832–1903); William Henry Carey (1863–1951); Ellen Sarah Carey (1868–____); James Christopher Carey (1870–____); Elizabeth M. Carey (1873–1941); Caroline A. Carey (1874–1951); George Edward J Carey (1880–1959) and Thomas Charles Carey (1882–____).

William Henry Carey (1863–1951)'s son Dennis Bradley Carey (16 MAY 1899 Handsworth, Staffordshire, England - 22 FEB 1986 Kogarah,NSW,Australia) moved from Birmingham to Sydney after WW1 because he couldn't settle down after travelling and seeing so much as a soldier in France and north Africa.

(v.) Christopher Carey (17 AUG 1844 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England - 18 JAN 1911 Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, United Kingdom)
(vi.) Ellen Jane Carey (11 JAN 1847 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England - 1 NOV 1932 Handsworth, Staffordshire, England)

5. Charles Carey (1810 Yorkshire, England - 20 AUG 1855 Crimean War in Russia)
Born at 2 Redmonds Hill, Dublin, Ireland and died at 6 Livery Street, St. Paul, Birmingham, England.

Art Critic, Dealer, Writer & Publisher. Author of "An Appeal to the People Of Ireland" (1794) and anti-protestant pamphlet 'Warning Protest'. He fled to Philadelphia in 1793 after a fall-out with the Society Of United Irishmen but returned to London in the late 1790's where he lived in Marylebone and Museum St. Bloomsbury and established himself as a dealer in prints & paintings. He resided at 5½ Eustace St. Dublin in 1800 and moved to Temple Place, Bath Row Birmingham in 1835. He made a last trip to America to visit his relatives, arriving in Philadelphia on 12 Sept. 1837. His first wife Dorothy (married 1788) died 4 July 1791 at Prussia St. Dublin. Married (2) 21 May 1792 in the drawing room of the bride's parent's house at 5 Grafton St. Saint Stephen's Green, Dublin, Elizabeth Ann (Betsy) Lennon, b. 1776 at 6 Grafton St Dublin. (daughter of Anthony Lennon of Rosemont County Athlone and Elizabeth Bomford), d. 27 Jan 1832 London, England. He had four children: his eldest daughter Maria Sheridan Carey who died at Portsea in 1807, a son William Sheridan Carey who died at Kensington in 1821 aged 26, a daughter Elizabeth Sheridan Carey (see below), and a son James Macauley Carey 1809-1854 who was born at Sheffield, married Caroline Baker on 13 March 1832 at St Martins Birmingham and was living at Monmouth Street, Birmingham as a picture dealer in the 1841 census. William Paulet’s daughter Elizabeth Sheridan Carey was a well-regarded poet. Elizabeth Sheridan Carey (1805-1882), was born at York 18 October 1805 and ran a school at 10 Regent Quadrant, London with Charlotte Eale Bartlett in the 1830s. In 1844 her poem A Warning Cry against poverty and oppression was printed in several newspapers in the north of England and in America; in 1848 she published a letter to the provisional government of France on the rights of women, and in 1849 she was toasted at a Burns night at Sheffield. From 1849 she was selling pictures inherited from her father to Charles Winn 1795-1874 of Nostell Priory, including a Rembrandt (since attributed to Ferdinand Bol) for 350 guineas. From 1857 to 1863 she presented poems to English and French royalty on royal weddings and funerals one of which was received by Queen Victoria 'with especial favour'. She lived her later years in Versailles, dying unmarried there on 27 April 1882.

In 1788 in Dublin, Ireland he married Dorothy Carey (1759 Dublin Ireland - Death 4 JULY 1791 Dublin, Ireland) and they had the following children:

1. Maria Sheridan Carey (____– 1807 Portsea )

On 21 May 1792 in Dublin, Ireland, he married second Elizabeth Lennon (1776 6 Grafton St., Dublin, Ireland - 27 JAN 1832 London, London, England), daughter of Anthony Lennon and Elizabeth Bomford, and they had the following children:

2. William Sheridan Carey (1792 Sheffield, Yorkshire, England - 4 MAY 1821 Camden Pl., Kensington, London, England)
3. Elizabeth Sheridan Carey (18 OCT 1805 Yorkshire, England - 27 APRIL 1882 Paris, France)

4. James Macauley Carey (25 SEP 1809 Sheffield, Yorkshire, England - 29 JUN 1854 118 Brearley Street West, St.George, Birmingham, England). On 13 Mar 1832 in Birmingham, St Martin, Warwickshire, England, he married Caroline J Baker (25 FEB 1808 Birmingham, England - 26 MAY 1891 Chester, Cheshire, England), daughter of Thomas Baker (1774–1839) and Charlotte Mould (1776–1832) and they had the following children:

(i.) Charlotte Elizabeth Carey (26 DEC 1832 29 Little Charles St. Birmingham, England - Death 9 JUN 1903 21 Garden Lane, Chester, Cheshire, Flintshire, United Kingdom) She married Hart Davies (1832–1916) and they had the following children: Thomas Hart Davies (1856–____); William James Hart Davies (1859–1911); Caroline Hart Davies (1861–1931); Charlotte Elizabeth Davies (1863–1933); Florence Kezia Davies (1865–1931); Franklin Davies (1868–1914); John Howard Davies (1870–____); Marguerite Davies (1871–1947) and Alfred Hart Davies (1875–1945).

(ii.) Thomas James Carey (19 APRIL 1834 29 Little Charles St. Birmingham, England - Died on board his ship of the Florida coast___)

(iii.) Margaret Lennon Carey (JUL 1839 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England - 19 JUL 1918 86 Tudor Ladywood,Birmingham, England). She married William Brignell "Leonard" Reeves (1839–1904) and they had the following children: Edith Brignell Lennon Leonard (1871–1943); Ellen Margaret (Leonard) Reeves (1874–____); Caroline (Carrie) Alice Leonard (1876–1931); William James (Leonard) Reeves (1879–1945); Beatrice May Leonard (1881–1961); Clara Lilian Leonard (1883–1960) and Thomas Ernest Reeves (1885–1968).

(iv.) James Paulet Philip Carey (14 DEC 1841 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England - 13 FEB 1887 Birmingham, West Midlands, England). On 10 Aug 1862, in All Saints Church Birminham, Warcs, England, he married Sarah Ann Pratchett (1844–1922) and they had the following children: Charlotte Elizabeth Carey (1832–1903); William Henry Carey (1863–1951); Ellen Sarah Carey (1868–____); James Christopher Carey (1870–____); Elizabeth M. Carey (1873–1941); Caroline A. Carey (1874–1951); George Edward J Carey (1880–1959) and Thomas Charles Carey (1882–____).

William Henry Carey (1863–1951)'s son Dennis Bradley Carey (16 MAY 1899 Handsworth, Staffordshire, England - 22 FEB 1986 Kogarah,NSW,Australia) moved from Birmingham to Sydney after WW1 because he couldn't settle down after travelling and seeing so much as a soldier in France and north Africa.

(v.) Christopher Carey (17 AUG 1844 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England - 18 JAN 1911 Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, United Kingdom)
(vi.) Ellen Jane Carey (11 JAN 1847 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England - 1 NOV 1932 Handsworth, Staffordshire, England)

5. Charles Carey (1810 Yorkshire, England - 20 AUG 1855 Crimean War in Russia)


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