Carey Family NEWSLETTER

Issue twelve 2006

Editorial here we are ill prepared al- It has had many occupants

N Mike Comber ways. since then. It was an Immigra- While in Sydney we met up tion Depot for single female

O with Lottie Mottram, a mem- immigrants seeking work as

I ber descended by marriage domestic servants and await- from Felix, her daughter has ing family reunion from 1848 T now taken over her member- to 1886 and also a female asy- ship. We had an excellent half lum from 1862 to 1886. From A day together even though it 1887 to 1979 law courts and I Welcome to you all to this edi- turned out to be one of the government offices were based

C tion of the Carey newsletter. I rainier days that we had, so at the Barracks. am sorry it is rather late, but it much so that we purchased an They sell bookmarks based on

O is not something that can be umbrella. Also in Sydney we names of convicts, one of explored the Hyde Park Bar- which was Carey. Also they S produced in a hurry; Pam and I had six weeks in May and racks. have databases S June of this year visiting fam- o f c o n v i c t ily in West Australia, mainly names, there A

my sister Margaret who emi- were several grated with all her family back Careys; the one

Y in 1962; then transferring to mentioned on the Sydney in the east for four book mark is a L weeks to stay with our eldest Mary Carey from I daughter, Sarah, and family. Taunton, she was We had an excellent time but convicted of bur-

M it does take a chunk out of the glary and sen- year. On our return I ordered a tenced to seven A new computer, a process that years; she left on the Charlotte

F always takes some time to ac- one of the First Fleet in 1787. complish, what with transfer- A friend of ours who was a ring files, installing programs These were built by convict colleague of mine in the first Y and so on. Finally we had our labour between 1817 and school I taught at back in 1958 heat wave that quite frankly 1819. As the principal male gave me a copy of Mary E left me with little desire to convict barracks in New South Drewery’s book on William work at anything very much! I Wales it provided lodgings for Carey. It was one of the books R know the temperatures we had convicts working in govern- I had borrowed from our li- were relatively miniscule com- ment employment around Syd- brary but wanted one for my A pared with other parts of the ney until its closure in 1848. self so it came as a pleasant

C world, but when we get them surprise when he presented it

Attempt great things for God 1 to me. It turns out he is just about have all survived this recent heat would be downright wicked. We related to the authur via his wave without mishap. are all being encouraged to write grandmother’s sister who married For our family it has been a de- letters of protest. a George Smith who later mar- light to see Carey Graziano, and The second project is writing ried a Gertrude. Their son mar- her grandson Filippo, on her an- something suitable for this news- ried Mary Drewery! So it is only nual U.K. trip. letter. I have been in the habit of a vague connection, perhaps Last autumn Edwin and I had a using under the bed space for ‘related’ is too strong a word! holiday with Carey and her storage always being a little bit We have had an email from Dr lovely family in Sicily. We were embarrassed about this. Now Lalchungnunga apologizing for accompanied by two of our however this has become an ac- not having Sally Edwards and her daughters the reason being they ceptable usage of it as plastic group met at the airport. However believed that we could not man- containers are sold specifically he does exonerate himself by age the journey on our own. It is for under bed storage. Four days pointing out that he and his wife true that we had not flown since ago I pulled out from under the Hliri did not receive confirmation 1964 when we left Nigeria. We bed in our guest room a card- of arrival details. So if any of you did not need much persuasion to board box containing a medley of plan to go to Serampore at any accept their offer of help. Martha items including letters, post time you will be sure of a great came with us on the outward cards, family photographs and, welcome, but be sure to confirm flight and Sophia Tim and Amy what is very special, a newspaper all details. came out to escort us home. An cutting of the naming of a street I am still hoping for more offers invalid chair, with willing slave in India after William Carey; no of contributions to future news- to push the conveyance, was date on the cutting but the con- letters, this is your newsletter, I available for me at Stansted and tents make interesting reading am only the editor –so should Palermo; which made the journey which is why I mention it now: only have to edit! So let’s have really easy. ‘few people in Paulerspury, the pens put to paper in the coming We were both impressed by the other side of Towcester, yester- months with items from you! way Carey drove her car through day thought of William Carey, Finally I would like to thank two the streets in Palermo, skilfully the village cobbler who became a ladies in my life: First Pam, my missing all the other traffic! We missionary pioneer, apostle and wife, who has to put up with me were taken to many sites of inter- statesman. But he was remem- compiling this newsletter and est at all times of the day and bered in India. then kindly proof reads to look night; we had a truly wonderful A street was named after him, a for my numerous mistakes; sec- time. most pleasant thoroughfare which ondly Lis, my daughter, who During the past three weeks I runs along the riverfront in does a lot of copy typing for me, have had two projects to com- Serampore - the town where Wil- a job I’m not good at. plete I have finished the one and liam Carey built a college. Chairman am making progress with the sec- He succeeded where two other Ruth Wrigley ond. missionaries had failed. A mis- The first was a letter to express sion was built in a district which my anger and disgust at the sug- was overwhelmingly Hindu and gestion that our local hospital in the Brahmin influence especially Chichester should be downsized dominant. in order to save money. This He fought against odds - and would mean no A and E, no ma- won. He hurled his indignant ternity unit, no paediatric unit, no might against flesh hooks, the major surgery and no intensive men of the lower castes who I send good care facility. It has won many stuck hooks in their flesh and wishes to all our friends, relatives commendations for excellence in swung from trees scattering herbs and members and hope that you recent years. To meddle with this to Siva.

2 Expect great things from God Another habit of the natives was couraging, but he won in the end Victoria, Australia) Kay sug- to sing ballads. Carey, the most and a few years later, in Kette- gested the William Carey College awed of Sahibs, took up ballad ring, he was leading a society for and the Carey Baptist Grammar singing, to the amazement of all. the formation of a society for School should be designated as It is recorded he said: “the people sending Missionaries from Eng- institutional members with no seem anxious to get the hymns land.’ further fee. Agreed by committee we give away.” I am sure I speak for all of us members. In hundreds of other ways he when I say a big thank you to We currently have a bank balance showed his amazing energy and Mike for his work on the family of £ 1040 David said efforts to capacity for spreading good trees and with the newsletter. change banking resolution have among the natives full of ancient Also to David Allen for looking not taken place. He will be religions and superstitions. after the finances of the CFA, amending the banking resolution His fame gradually spread. In In- Sally Edwards our secretary and to read: 'any authorised signa- dia he proved to be “one of the Kay Carey for the inspiration she tory'. greatest of God's Englishmen” gives to us all; and other mem- Newsletter and Carey tree with his teaching and translations bers of the committee –Jeremy Secretary and Treasurer will sub- of the scriptures into 11 different Taylor and Barry Eliades. mit reports tongues. But success never turned MINUTES OF COMMITTEE MEETING Kay expressed gratitude to Mike his head. April 1, 2006 for his ongoing work on the Fam- His reply to a British officer 23, Badger's Close, Horsham ily Tree. Mike said the Tree is seated next to him at the Gover- Present growing steadily. nor General's table was typical of Kay Carey, David Allen, Mike Barry has been adding to his own the man, the officer sarcastically Comber, Sally Edwards, Barry family branch and will forward asked him whether he had been a Eliades his update to Mike. shoemaker. “No” replied Carey; Apologies Website “not even a shoemaker only a Ruth Wrigley, Jeremy Taylor Barry said this has not yet been cobbler”. Minutes of meeting, April 2005 set up but he does intend to con- That was true enough. His early These were accepted as read. struct a website. He will put on life in Paulerspury after leaving Matters arising the Tree but expressed concern the low - thatched one room Jane Marriott (family member in that by adding dates of birth iden- school was spent as a cobbler. He N Wales) has expressed concern tities could be stolen. This may be was counted a very good work- that through the Family Tree resolved by putting information man and shoes of his making there is personal information in PDF form. The newsletter were set in the window of his available on the net. would be suitable for the website workshop as examples of the Mike said he has addressed this but not to include committee firm's good work. and now puts on only basic infor- members' names and addresses, He was a plodder and full of per- mation. only names. Barry said the web- severance. “To this I owe every-Further information about indi- site could be used as a network- thing” he used to say. He was viduals or families is only avail- ing tool - but he expressed some deeply and fully bent on learning able via Mike's computer concern that it could be exploited and it is probable some botany Membership and Treasurer's re- but will put up 1-2 pages. There book he chanced on in the village port is a cost involved - approx. £30 a gave him his beginning to lan- We currently have 43 individual year to set up and run. There can guages. members on our books, a net in- be links via a website to our insti- Difficulties never discouraged his crease of 2 during the past year tutional members. mind. After being baptised in the We have 2 institutional members: Serampore News Nene they begged him to be min- William Carey College Kay said she has not heard from ister at Olney and Earls Barton. (Mississippi, USA) and the Carey Dr Lal at Serampore or Sunil His earlier sermons were not en- Baptist Grammar School (Kew, Chatterjee since last year. Discus-

Attempt great things for God 3 sion around sending money to Keith is a governor of Carey the Carey Library and Re- Serampore College. David will Baptist Grammar School. search Centre or towards the send a letter to Dr Lal with Pam and Mike were thanked cost of improving the Krishna £500 inviting him to advise us for their hospitality Pal Meditation Ground, the of what projects he might have CFA Membership and Treas- spot where William Carey in mind that he would like urer’s Report baptised his first convert. The funded by us. We currently have 42 individ- balance of view within the Discussion re increasing mem- ual members on our books. Committee was that on this bership fee. If contact is re- Two new members joined dur- occasion we should respond to gained with Serampore there ing the past year –Lydia Mar- the expressed dire need for could be an invitation to mem- tin (who lives in Australia and help in paying staff salaries bers to donate to specific has taken over Lottie within the Theology Depart- causes or projects Mottram’s membership) and ment, although we do also AOB Claire Moore who lives in have concerns about the condi- Mike has had communication South Africa. We also con- tion of the Carey Library and from Anne Savage on a hymn tinue to have two institutional Research Centre. The donation written by a 'William Carey'. It members –the Carey Baptist was accordingly sent to Dr Grammar School, of Kew, Lalchungnunga on that basis. Victoria, Australia, and the William Carey College, of Mississippi, USA. At the time of the Commit- tee meeting which was held on 1st April 2006 we had a bank balance of £1040 compared with £757 twelve months before. The cost of the Newsletter last year was £66.63 compared with £84.16 for the previous is- sue. It was agreed by the Com- mittee that the Association should donate £500 to Serampore College in fur- therance of one of its stated Some of the committee after the aims of “donating funds to meeting in April. L to r Barry Serampore College out of Eliades, Kay Carey, Sally Ed- any surplus from our sub- wards, Mike Comber scriptions after running is not Dr William Carey. It costs”. We subsequently asked Comings and Goings was written by William Carey Dr Lalchungnunga, the Head September 2005 who was Jonathan Pearce's of the College, how he would Just a quick note to say Emily second son (Dr William wish to spend this money. He and Kevin Johns-Putra became Carey's great grandson). indicated that the College was proud parents of Leo David Mike has a new book written in dire need of funds for pay- this morning! He weighed in at by Dr Keith Farrer from Aus- ment of staff salaries in the 6lbs 12ozs and was born at tralia who has written on Wil- Theology Department. Other- Enfield Hospital. liam Carey - missionary and wise the money could go to- David and Sally Edwards botanist. wards the cost of maintaining 4 Expect great things from God until he could get a job where It was indeed my pleasure and he could use his scientific ex- honour to have got to know pertise. When I mentioned my you. (very remote!) family connec- tion with his ‘point of origin’ Mary Carey part one and told him my surname, his From ‘Great Baptist Women’ eyes lit up. He seemed to The Carey Kingsgate Press know as much about Rev Wil- The 1790s may well be called liam as we do. Anyway we the era of great sisters. Soon Leo David Johns-Putra exchanged addresses, and after after the Baptist Missionary we got home we sent a picture Society was born in 1792 there December 10th 2005 postcard of Penkridge, not began an important friendship Shelagh Stannard’s daughter really expecting to get a reply. between a famous brother and in law Christine, wife of So you can imagine our de- a sister who, although less Michael, died from cancer. light when the postman called widely known, helped to in- today. spire his work by her imagina- March 2006 Peter Carey tive sympathy and love for all Our daughter Patricia and hus- Letter from Rajkumen Ghosh created things. Of Dorothy band James Shepherd had a to Peter Carey Wordsworth her brother, Wil- son William David James. Our Dear Mrs and Mr Carey liam, wrote: first grandchild is a delight to I received your postcard. I Her very presence such a us. can’t tell you how happy it sweetness breathed, Bob and Jeannette Ellison makes me to have made your That flowers, and trees, and acquaintance. I feel it was even the silent hills, Letter from Peter Carey providence. And every thing she looked Dec 23 2005 I have told my family and on, should have had Dear Michael friends back in Kolkata about An intimation how she bore I enclose a copy of a letter I you and they can hardly be- herself received today which may be lieve my luck. Towards them and to all crea- of interest to other members of William Carey is held in high tures. God delights the association. But I guess I regard in Serampore and Kol- In such a being; for, her com- ought to explain how my wife, kata. The people remember the mon thoughts Joan, and I came to meet the first and foremost missionary Are piety, her life is gratitude. writer. We celebrated our for establishing Baptist Mis- (The Prelude, Book XII.) Ruby Wedding earlier this sionary College (now Seram- These words might equally year by holidaying in the USA pore College), setting up the well have been written by that and Canada, and one morning printing press, his role in initi- other great William of the day: we went in a bank in Vancou- ating English language educa- William Carey. During the ver to change $US into $Can- tion, and on top, his efforts in years which followed the ada. Just inside the door was a abolishing the practice of Sati founding of the B.M.S. and very imposing Asian security (Suttee). Carey's departure for India, he guard, not to stop the ungodly I have spoken to two gentle- must have been repeatedly up- getting in but stop ‘em getting men in Vancouver who are held and inspired by the letters out! Something (maybe the originally from Bangladesh, of his sister, Mary, suffused ‘providence’ Raj refers to) and have come to know that in with the same spirit of piety made us get into conversation Bangladesh history textbooks and gratitude which so im- with him. It transpired that he at secondary level devote a pressed Wordsworth in his was from Calcutta, with a very brief section on William own sister. good degree in chemistry, and Carey. Like Dorothy Wordsworth, was working as a bank guard Mary Carey was several years Attempt great things for God 5 her brother's junior, and this ist, no news could have been sphere, the vision which suf- led her to regard William not more refreshing or more redo- fuses them is as wide as the only as companion and play- lent of the atmosphere of universe itself. Carey in India, mate, but also as instructor and home. Felix his eldest son, in Burma, guide to the secrets of nature. It is often assumed that, be- Jabez, a younger brother, in 'Of birds and all manner of cause Carey was himself a Malaya, all are included within insects he had numbers', she cobbler, he came of humble, the scope of the thoughts of wrote in her recollections of illiterate stock, and his bril- this remarkable woman, tied to their youth after William's liance as a linguist is thereby an invalid bed in a remote death. 'When he was from made to appear the more pro- Northamptonshire village. home, the birds were usually nounced. The fact is over- committed to my care. Being looked that both his father and Paulerspury Re-visited five years younger, I was in- grandfather were parish clerks Ann Savage dulged by him in all his enjoy- and masters of the Paulerspury I first visited Paulerspury on ments. Though I often used to school where Carey himself William Carey’s birthday, 17th kill them by kindness, yet, received his early education. August 1961, for his bi- when he saw my grief, he al- That Mary Carey could write centenary celebrations on a ways permitted me the pleas- such long, neat letters in a pe- beautiful sunny day. ure of seeing them again; and riod when few girls were edu- There was a thanksgiving ser- often took me over the dirtiest cated in anything other than vice in Paulerspury Church led roads to get at a plant or an related directly to their domes- by the Rector, the Rev John T insect. He never walked out, I tic duties lifts her out of the Lewis. The Rev D D Black, think, when quite a boy, with- common ruck into the small Secretary of the Northants out making observation on the company of those country- Baptist Association, read hedges, as he passed: and, women sufficiently literate to Isaiah 54: 1-8 the passage on when he took up a plant of any give expression to the con- which William Carey had kind, he always examined it cerns of daily life. The major- based his famous Association with care. His natural fondness ity of women letter writers of sermon at Nottingham in 1792. for a garden was cherished by the eighteenth century were My father, W H Brenton his uncle Peter, who was then town dwellers, writing of a Carey, read Ephesians 2: 1-8 settled in the village, and often sophisticated society and its and Dr E A Payne, General had his nephew with him, not fashions. Their correspon- Secretary of the Baptist Union, having any child of his own. dence, even if it told of the preached the sermon on this My brother seldom left any feelings of the heart, was dic- text. part of his father's garden un- tated by the head. It is the The hymn writers, William cultivated: he was so fond of more refreshing, therefore, to Cowper and John Newton, flowers.' This love of nature find in Mary Carey one who both lived in Olney and we was to remain a bond between wrote out of the sheer over- sang ‘God moves in a mysteri- them even in absence. Mary flow of love and devotion of ous way’ and Newton’s reports in one of her letters the heart. Untouched by any of ‘Glorious things of thee are that a young nephew and niece the prevailing sophistication, spoken’. have gone to Pury Feast to get her letters reflect the simplic- Between 400 and 500 people their uncle in India some blue- ity and ingenuousness of one attended the service. We came bells of a kind which did not who had no concern but the with my fiancé, John, my un- grow around their own home members of her family and cle and cousin, Basil and Rich- in Cottesbrook, while David, their part in extending the ard Carey and other family another nephew, is sending Kingdom of God. But if the members Bob, Michael and him a parcel of seeds. To actual events they relate are Tony Carey, Millicent O’Hara, Carey, the tireless horticultur- confined to a narrow domestic Elsie and Christopher Nestor.

6 Expect great things from God Refreshments were in the Rec- lower roof which was thatched Miss F H B Williams, Librar- tory garden where William and the derelict cottage had ian at Serampore College, un- Carey had first been fishing in been built later. veiled the cairn and plaque and the moat. My uncle, Basil Carey, ob- they were then dedicated by We then drove to Moulton to the Archdeacon of Northamp- continue the celebrations; ton, the Venerable Bazil R Marsh. The address was given by Rev E G T Madge and a blessing by the former Bishop of Colombo. The ceremony ended with a recording of Carey’s birthplace, Pury End hymns sung by members of Serampore College. tained the keys so we could look inside the cottage. He Members of the Carey family and wanted to buy it but was not Baptists at Paulerspury Church allowed to do this as it was unsafe. In 1965 the row of cottages Carey came to be schoolmas- was demolished and a cairn ter in 1785 and then also be- with a plaque was made, using came the Baptist Minister stones from the derelict cot- there after being ordained in tage, to mark Carey’s birth-Paulerspury Church 1787. We saw the cottage place. where he and his family lived On 16th September 1967 there I returned to Paulerspury with and had his school room and a was on unveiling and dedica- my husband and friends at the workshop for his shoe making tion service of the cairn and end of August 2003. We met which he did later to add to his plaque which my parents, sis- Mollie Dunkley, the church meagre income. ter, Jeannette, her husband warden, and Delia Pope in In the evening there was a bi- Bob and other family members Paulerspury church. Mollie centenary service at the Carey attended. had sung in the choir at the Baptist Church in Moulton My father, W H Brenton which included the same pas- Carey, read Isaiah 54: 1-8 sage from Isaiah and an ad- from William Carey’s own dress by the Rev E G T pocket bible. Madge, General Foreign Sec- retary B M S. We then went to Pury End, the small village near Paulerspury where William Carey was born. We saw a derelict cottage on the site where he was born, part of a row of cot- tages. I was told that Carey’s cottage Ann at the font in Paulerspury would have had a W H Brenton Carey reads the lesson. Church

Attempt great things for God 7 1961 service. Mollie showed died in Christchurch in July fearing they would lose the us the font where William 1937. ship. We rather laughed at Carey was baptised on 23rd Saturday Nov 25th 1882 them for this but they were August 1761 and where she This is the starting day; I have right, it was then 12 o’clock and Delia were also baptised. to be on board at 11am. I got and at 5 minutes past 12 We also saw the plaque on the up at 7:15am and after scrib- o’clock unknown and unfelt to North wall of the chancel bling a line to Ernest Lake, us all, we quickly moved off given by the Northampton completed my packing. Had from the dock. George should Baptist Association in 1942 to breakfast at 8:20am at 5 Canal have gone off, being required commemorate the 150th year Road where I have been stay- at home, but this unconscious of the Founding of the BMS, a ing since I left Pawsons, left moving off prevented, so we plaque to William Carey in the there at 9:30am in Mr Gills were all off for Gravesend at porch and Edmund and Eliza- van, George Gill and William, least. After going all over the beth Carey’s grave in the their man going with me, ship and noticing the different churchyard. Mollie and Delia reached the East India Docks spots of interest such as North were dismantling a flower fes- at 10am and after having a Woolwich Gardens, Woolwich tival held to coincide with the pass from the policeman at the Arsenal, Greenwich Observa- date of the baptism of Carey. gates, we proceeded to the tory etc. we, that is to say pas- We visited the present school spot where the ‘Bevan’ was sengers only, were called to and saw the playground which lying during her loading, on dinner of roast beef and vege- was the site of the school and arriving there we discovered tables. This was rather tantalis- schoolhouse to where William she had moved to the Basin of ing to our friends, who had Carey moved when he was six the Docks, we found her with come to see us off, they were when his father, Edmund, be- very little difficulty, but she doubtless as hungry as we came School master following looked far from ready to start. were, but while we were eat- the death of his grandfather, There was a little trouble in ing a hearty dinner, they had to school master Peter. getting my luggage on board content themselves with look- We then drove to Pury End to but that was soon overcome ing on which, according to see the cairn and plaque at and the van being discharged, their looks and remarks, was Carey’s birthplace in Carey’s George and I went aboard. We hardly as satisfying. Dinner Road. We saw the fields had scarcely turned round over George Gill very kindly where he first worked when he when Hood, my senior at Paw- came down and assisted me to left school and where, as a sons came on deck. We make my bed (or bunk) and young boy, he walked to the amused ourselves looking and unlock my box. When we had church, played and loved prying into everything. In an- finished our sundry jobs below learning about nature. other minute or so, Barham, we were in sight of Gravesend another chum at Pawsons where I had to say my last Andrew Carey’s Diary 1883 came on deck. We repaired to farewells, they having con- part one my cabin to inspect the prem- tacted with a waterman to take Diary of my voyage from Lon- ises that were to be my home them ashore, gave me a hearty don to New Zealand com- for 3 months. To all appear- shake of the hands all round, mencing Nov 25th 1882. ances we were not ready to with plenty of well wishes and Andrew Fuller Carey was born leave for some time, but look- left me entirely alone. When in April 1863 in Wolverhap- ing out for Mr Gill senior, all the passengers’ friends had ton. He worked in Pawsons, a whom we expected, we caught gone and none but passengers drapers shop in London before sight of Clarence Pryer and left, I was able to see how emigrating to New Zealand to Edward Walker, two Lea many of us there were. To my set up his own business. He Bridge friends, who were delight there were only 10 nearly exhausted with running, steerage passengers and two

8 Expect great things from God second class and no saloon Monday November 27th 1882 I got up again at 7pm and ones. There are 3 cabins and a Got up at 8am just in time to walked the deck until 9pm. mess room in the steerage por- say goodbye to the Pilot. The Thank the Lord I feel much tion of the ship. Two of the sea was very choppy and so better. cabins to accommodate 4 sin- was I, sea sickness came on Thursday November 30th 1882 gle men in each and the third toward mid-day and by the Lovely morning, calm sea, fair for a married couple. My cabin evening I felt really ill. We wind, good spirits and better is the centre of the three, and passed Dover, N and S Fore- health. Got up at 8am had a occupied by a middle aged land and other towns we could good breakfast of porridge and gentleman hotel keeper in not ascertain the name of. The salt pork. Had the whole day Dunedin, a young man (a tug left us at Dungeness, there on deck, wind in our favour. sailor 9 years in NZ) and an- was a head wind and we Kept up 9 knots an hour till other young fellow called Wil- hardly ran 2 knots an hour the 4pm when the wind fell and a liams, a Barristers son, 2 or 3 whole day. In fact at 7pm we dead calm followed, we were years older than I. We had tea were not out of sight of Dun- left almost stationary off the at 7pm and after that I set to geness Lighthouse, splendid Eddystone lighthouse. With all work hanging up our things moonlight night but very the favourable surroundings and otherwise furnishing our rough and of all the horrible today I could not help thinking cabin. From 8-10:30pm I feelings in the world sea sick- of absent friends and feeling walked the deck with Maclain ness is I think the worst. I dull and low spirited. I got my the ship being fastened to a hope though I shall soon be haversack from the hold and buoy at Gravesend. Went to alright. turned out my album and bed at 10:30pm. Tuesday November 28th 1882 looked at all the old faces. I Sunday Nov 26th 1882 Had an awful night of sick- hardly know whether this Got up at 8am had breakfast at ness, could not bear my head made me feel better or worse, 8:30am. The ship still fast to up. Did not get up all day, ate better I think for I congratu- buoy. A head wind in channel nothing since yesterday morn- lated myself that the brighter I so we decided to stay the day ing. Head wind still prevailing tried to make myself, the in Gravesend or rather off and sea awfully rough. To- sooner the time would fly. I there. At 10am a missionary wards evening it came over feel so much better today. At from ashore came over to see very wild and about 7pm I got Start Point, we signalled us and had service for 17 min- up feeling very ill and weak. ashore and gave signs at to our utes, 12 of us attending. I oc- Had a walk on deck till 9pm destination. Our friends will cupied the rest of the morning saw the light off Cape Harfleur see in tomorrows paper that writing letters. Had dinner at and Beachy Head. Went to bed we are alright but I expect will 1pm, started more letters after again feeling no better. One wonder what we have been dinner. At 3:30pm Hallam and almost wishes not to live, or to doing all the week only to get I went ashore to post our let- be thrown overboard, any as far as Plymouth but I am ters. I called to see Mrs Rich- thing but seasickness. told we are lucky to get so far ard (formerly of Stoleys) Wednesday November 29th out of the Channel so soon at stayed to tea. Got her photo. 1882 so late a month of the year. Left Gravesend again at 6pm, Feeling a little better got up at Our meals up to now have walked the deck till 10pm. 8am but had to go to bed again been very good, at least those I Moonlight night. Thinking of at 10am. I was so giddy and have had. I had a game of London friends and where I sick I could not stand. We chess in the evening and then might be. Feeling very miser- were still dodging about the paraded the deck until bed able but moving off at mid- Isle of Wight. I managed to eat time. Wind still very low and night for the Downs bright- a biscuit and cup of tea at 6pm progress slow. Retired to bed ened me up. which seemed to do me good. at 10pm.

Attempt great things for God 9 Friday December 1st 1882 to the grand opening day. Poor had to change. This was the Got up at 8am still feeling bet- old Mrs Squires housed two of first sea we have shipped but ter, the sea rougher and the us that night. I wonder the Captain tells me I must wind favourable and fair but whether she’s still alive. Do look out for the waves as she raining in torrents. First wet the present committee remem- will continually take in the day. Just before dinner I felt ber all this too I wonder. I ex- waves when rough. In future I very queer again and in the pect they will be having spe- shall go on the poop with the afternoon came over sea sick cial services tomorrow; who Skipper, getting wet through is and ill again I was compelled preaches I wonder. Oh I no joke. I had forty winks the to go to bed again. The fore should like to pop down to- afternoon, got up in time for topsail was carried away with morrow but this cannot be. We tea which was exceptionally the rough wind today. We had tremendous back storms good. We had a nice hot cake. skirted the Bay of Biscay, I towards evening but wind fair After tea Mr Anstey, one of never saw such a sea before. and ship going her course at our cabin, read us a sermon Towards evening a stowaway the rate of 9 knots an hour. We just to make us feel that it was was found in the coals. He was had a narrow escape of colli- Sunday. There are only thirty brought before the skipper and sion tonight. A Swedish two souls on board the ship so being too far from shore to barque cut across our bow we do not come under the Act send him about his business he within 100 yards. I turned in of Parliament which enforces told him to go forehead with just after the alarm at 8.30pm. the Captain to read the church the sailors and turned to. Sunday December 3rd 1882 prayers once on the Sunday if Saturday December 2nd 1882 Second Sunday on board the over thirty five souls. After Still in the Bay and feeling Bevan. We left the Bay of Bis- that, it being wet and dark awfully ill with the rolling of cay behind us in the night past above, we all stayed in the the vessel. Got up however at and are now full out in the At- mess room and had a chat. 8am and went to the Captain lantic. At noon today we were Monday December 4th 1882 for some medicine which he off Cape Finisterre. I was par- Got up today awfully sick. gave me and which I think ticularly struck with the con- There was a nasty cross sea on made my head a little better. trast in the sea of the Ocean and a head wind so that we Did nothing but sleep on deck and that of the Channel or were only going barely 2 knots all day. There are only two Bay. The Channel was rough I an hour. I went to bed at 10am things a fellow who is sea sick thought but choppy, the Bay with an acute headache aggra- can do on board ship and that was still rougher and more ir- vated by sea sickness. Turned is walk up and down looking regular, and full of cross seas, out for an hour or two at 7pm. back on the past and looking but the Atlantic is a series of Ship seeing a good bit of water forward to the future. To go huge, gigantic rollers, very today. down to the cabin means mak- regular about half minute be- ing you more giddy. It is too tween each. I feel a little better A new Carey book cold to sit on deck reading, so today, it is beautifully sunny In 2005 a brand new book was there’s nothing left but this morning so I kept up on published about William thought. But what an impor- the main deck and forecastle Carey written by Dr Keith Far- tant day this is. Lucy is 12 nearly all the forenoon watch- rer. It is the first book to have years old today. I should like ing the grand waves but I got been written emphasising to be able to let her know I am punished about 12 o’clock Carey’s expertise in Botany. thinking of her. Today too is quite unawares. One of these The first part is a general ac- the anniversary of the opening rollers came with full power count about Carey and the sec- new mission Hall at L Bridge. and washed me completely to ond is about Carey as a scien- This time last year we were all the other side. The loopholes tist. The whole book is most down there driving in the last of course soon let the water certainly one of the most accu- few nails and clearing up prior out but I was wet through and rate about William Carey as it 10 Expect great things from God has been most carefully re- ried up to Shillong in dandys; gasping for breath, with a searched from an extensive a sort of sedan chair carried on steam kettle blowing on her. bibliography. the shoulders of two men or The nuns were, surprisingly, It can be obtained from: four if you were very heavy! very hard hearted and cruel Carey Baptist Grammar There is a proper road there about bed-wetting. Any of the School today but in those early days children who transgressed 349 Barkers Road there was only a rough track were punished by having to Kew and it took us all day to get to stand on the main staircase in Victoria 3101 the top of the hills, stopping their nightclothes with their Australia for lunch at a halfway house. wet sheets draped around their Who are the publishers of the My only memories of this shoulders. I never had to suffer book. school are of the weekly doses this indignity, but my poor sis- Dr Farrer is an ex-pupil of of cold senna pod tea early in ter was only a little thing and Carey Baptist School and a the morning and being doled will never forget the shame member of the School Board. out with three pieces of toilet and anguish she had to endure. He is also a scientist being an paper every night! I recall that Our boring life in this school Honorary Fellow of the Aus- the suppers were very nice was alleviated by frequent vis- tralian Academy of Techno- with lots of bread and butter its from a very dear aunt, my logical Sciences and Engineer- washed down with piping hot mother’s youngest sister, ing. In 1979 he was appointed cocoa in huge urns. it was here Mona. She used to come and OBE for services to science that I got chickenpox and still take us out to tea and cakes at and industry. have white scars left by the a local restaurant; red letter pustules. I also made my first days for us. Sunday in school Shelagh Stannard's biography communion there. I was con- was pocket money day but we pt 3 sidered to be very good at Arts seldom got any from our par- My sister and I went to board- and Crafts and I remember ents. Aunt Mona’s husband, ing school for the first time making a book of pressed au- Freddy Oakley was the Man- when I was about ten or eleven tumn leaves in various designs ager of a tea garden just out- years old. This was Pinemount and knitting a baby’s bonnet side Darjeeling called Turzum. School in Shillong, about a for the end of year exhibition, This garden was a wonderful day’s journey from Amingoan. much admired by my teachers place and to us a little bit of Shillong is the summer capital and I was very proud of my- heaven. The house was a long of Assam, 5000 ft. above sea self! low thatched one with beauti- level in the heart of the Khasi My next school was in Darjee- ful polished wooden floors and Jainti Hills on the Burma ling, the Loretto Convent, covered in rugs and carpets, border. The whole area is sub- 6800ft. above sea level in the and with a staff of well trained ject to earthquakes and nearby Himalayas. My sister and I servants at our beck and call, Cherrapunji is reputed to be spent two years there and and gorgeous food! We spent the rainiest place in the world. hated it. We were boarders, I many very happy holidays All the houses in Shillong are got measles and remember there. It was a very luxurious built of wood because of the waking up one morning to see life after our spartan existence tremors that occur every all the girls staring down at me down in the plains. To get to day - very frightening until with horrified eyes and saying, Turzum we used to have to one gets used to them. To get “look at her face all covered take the tiny mountain railway to Shillong we had to take the with spots”. My poor sister (steam) from Siliguri at the ferry across the river to Pandu, got a very bad dose of whoop- foothills of the Himalayas, get then the train to Gauhati also ing cough - no immunisation off at Ghoom station where on the banks of the Brahmapu- in those days. I used to stand Aunt Mona and Freddy would tra river but higher up stream. outside the isolation ward of meet us, get on horseback and At Gauhati we had to be car- the Infirmary watching her ride out to the tea garden Attempt great things for God 11 which took two or three hours. Robertsons Golden Shred I re- did this at every new house we The road was a very narrow member Kurseong moved to but, sadly, we never rough one and I remember on one Another beautiful place we vis- seemed to stay more then three or occasion our riding party met a ited was called Almora, also in four months anywhere, so just as herd of squealing pigs being the Himalayas, 5500 ft. above sea everything was starting to look driven to market; the horses did- level. It used to be very popular pretty, off we’d go again! We n’t like it at all and danced about for people suffering from Tuber- began to keep lot of animals and on the edge of the precipice! Tur- culosis. There was fishing avail- birds as pets. All our cats bred zum also had its own factory for able in the lakes and the view of like mad and we were forever processing the tea. We were able the snowy mountains was superb. finding nests of kittens in odd to see the whole operation from There was also the Pindari Gla- corners of the house and garden. the picking (two leaves and a cier, 13000 ft. nearby. We rented The hens laid their eggs under the bud) to the tea being put into a little cottage covered with a hedges and bushes and it was like large crates for shipment to Brit- climbing yellow rose with a gor- a treasure hunt finding them ain. Freddy Oakley was an ama- geous scent. In the garden was a daily. I don’t think I went to teur jockey and a fine polo ruined stone tower and we girls school at this time, in fact, think- player; in his time he had broken used to run around it throwing ing about it now, I believe I only almost every bone in his body stones up to the top; one day a had about five years schooling except his spine! He used to train large stone I’d thrown bounced altogether in my life! Our dogs his own horses, and once when a back down on to my sister’s head were liver and white spaniels and very valuable animal of his broke cutting it badly and drawing a mongrel black and white terrier it’s fetlock, instead of putting it blood; quite a lot of it. On an- called Peter. These dogs were fed down, he and the vet hung it up other occasion we were called offal every day and on one occa- to the stable ceiling in a sling to into breakfast one morning and in sion Peter was so disgusted at his take the weight off it’s injury, fighting to get through the door I dinner that, after sniffing at it dis- and it survived. cut my forehead very deeply on dainfully, he lifted his leg on it! On the way to Darjeeling there the edge of the door. I was taken This poor dog eventually died of was a place called Kurseong, to the hospital but made such a canker of the ear for which there 4800 ft. above sea level, and fuss about having stitches put in was no cure at the time. At first some of my happiest memories that the doctor washed his hands we thought he had rabies and fa- are of holidays spent there. My of the whole affair, put a bandage ther fetched his gun in readiness father, being a railwayman, was on it and told my mother very to put him down. At that time able to make use of a cottage crossly to take me away home treatment for a rabid dog bite was owned by the Railways and quickly! a terrible business - one had to go rented out to their employees for The Himalayas have many beau- to a place called Kasauli for in- holidays. It was perched on the tiful song birds and birds of para- jections in the stomach This was edge of a deep gorge out of dise. The one we particularly the only place in the whole of the which would come clouds of loved had a four note call which Indian continent where treatment damp white mist rolling up the we interpreted as “why don’t you was available and since all travel side of the hill and send us chil- come”, imagining it was calling then was by train taking days, the dren screaming away in panic! us to come up to the hills for an- outlook was anything but rosy. The cottage garden was filled other lovely holiday. Most of our dogs succumbed to with flowers - mostly Cosmos, In the late 1920’s we moved to a Distemper, also incurable then, which when I see any today, place called Katihar in Northern and I can still remember the sor- takes my mind right back to those India not far from Purnea from row and distress I suffered hear- happy times. I think these holi- where expeditions to Mount Ev- ing and seeing them dying. Since days were the only occasions erest used to start. The house was then I have been very reluctant to when we ever saw marmalade large and the garden was very keep pets. and jam, since we were not very big; mother engaged a gardener Our cats stayed out all night and wealthy! Whenever I taste and began to plan a garden. She had terrible fights, torn ears and 12 Expect great things from God bunged up eyes were common. mine survived and grew up to its cage. The mouse ended up During the night we’d hear be a lovely golden oriole and I sitting on the snake’s head then yowling and spitting and christened it Harry. I kept it in washing it’s whiskers! Father were able to distinguish our a cage but it was so tame that I let it loose in the nearest jun- own cats howls from those of used to let it out a lot particu- gle. others. My sister and I would larly when I got down on One day we were given a leap out of bed and rush out- hands and knees on the lawn small young animal that side to rescue our own particu- to catch beetles and grasshop- looked like a domestic cat, but lar favourites. I think mine pers for him to eat. He would it grew bigger and bigger and was called Tiggy and hers was sit on my shoulder flapping his when it produced stripes we a moth eaten old tom with a wings and cheeping excitedly. suddenly realised it looked bald head and crumpled ear I had no compunction in pull- remarkably like a young tiger. called Archibald. At some of ing off the insect’s legs and It began to beat up our dogs his existence someone had wings so that he could swal- and cats and when it reached thrown boiling water over low them easily. This little dog size and chased the post- him - hence the lack of hair bird just loved bathing, I used man down the drive we had to and his name. It is surprising to pour water on him from a send it to the Zoo as well. It that when we rushed out at watering can and he would was a tiger! night we never thought of fluff up his feathers and shuf- One of the nicest pets we ever stepping on dangerous snakes fle them about and then have a had, apart from my beloved and insects, of which there good old preen. At night he’d Harry the golden oriole, was a were many. Our dogs often be back in his cage with his young raven. He was terribly came home with a huge scor- head tucked under one wing noisy, refused to stay in a pion clinging on to a lip or ear, with just one beady eye open cage, just followed us around or their mouths ringed with when I looked in to see if he all day hopping along side- lion ants holding on with enor- was OK and to give him a ways and cawing ceaselessly mous jaws, or foaming at the good night pat. He’d make a for food. We called him Grip. mouth from contact with a par- soft chuckling sound in ac- He was no problem before he ticular type of frog. We fre- knowledgements a cosy com- learned to fly but after he be- quently heard frogs crying fortable sort of noise. came airborne he was a men- pitifully whilst being slowly We tried very hard to rear a ace, ate anything he fancied swallowed by a snake; we’d young deer whose mother had and ran off with anything that rush out and try to save them been shot by villagers, but it was shiny or colourful. It was by killing the snake and haul- would not eat and just faded very funny to see him having a ing the frog out of its jaws, away. Another young creature duel with one of the cats; he even by torchlight in the dead was a wild cat; we never did would hop around behind it of night! Sometimes the frog discover exactly what it was, and tweak its twitching tail, at would survive if we were but it was very fierce and al- which the cat would cuff the quick enough but more often though only as large as a full bird over the head. Grip stayed the poor creature would be grown domestic cat it knocked with us for about two years dead, and white, and half di- spots off our pet felines who and then suddenly disappeared gested! Several times I actu- quickly learned to keep clear either decided to return to the ally slit open a snake to release of it. After a few weeks we wild, or the cats had their re- a frog! sent it off to the Calcutta Zoo venge! Our servants used to bring us much to the relief of the whole My father was a terrible chap any young animals they found family. for practical jokes. On one oc- abandoned; once they brought We once had a python which casion he noticed that ciga- us two adorable featherless just lay about lazily curled up rettes were disappearing rather little nestlings we kept one and showed no interest in a fast from his cigarette box; he each. My sister’s died but mouse which our cook put into suspected it was one of the Attempt great things for God 13 servants, and as it had hap- but they were too dim or too pened before, he decided to set spiteful to take any notice of a trap by stuffing several live him and continued to thread match beads into one end of a their way past our beds carry- cigarette and replacing it with ing their smelly load. Father the others and then waited. lost patience and decided to One morning our bearer was teach them a lesson - one night missing and on asking the he set up a trip wire (well other servants where he was away from us I may say!) we were told that he was ill. across the path that these Father went to the man’s quar-chaps would take. Well - you ters in the compound and can imagine what happened - a Where he could then enter the found him lying in bed with clatter and a yell and the men church: the sheet drawn up to his nose; were covered in filth! on pulling it down he saw that half the man’s moustache had Our Carey Experience 2005 been singed off! Mike Comber Another amusing tale is about Last year we decided it was the sewage collectors. We had time we explored the Carey no pull chain toilets at that Country along with Kay time only a commode or thun- Carey, so giving Kay the job derbox as it is called there. of organising it I chauffeured When the enamel container the three of us from Stroud, has been used one has to open where Kay lives, to Northamp- the outside bathroom door and tonshire to follow the planned shout out to the sweeper to route. come and clean it out. This he Our first stop was Pury End to does by emptying the contents look at William’s birthplace, Where William was christened into a large sewage tank in the or what is left of it: on 23 August 1761, and where garden well away from the we met Molly, who guided us house because of the smell, around the church and here is washing it under a tap and locking up again. then returning it to the com- mode. Every night the sewage tank is emptied by a couple of men into a two-wheeled tank drawn by a buffalo; it’s called a Crowley cart and was in- vented, of course, by a Mr. All that shows today is the Crowley! Now - in summer stone near the site of his cot- when the weather was boiling tage. hot we used to have our beds moved outside into the garden where it was much cooler (if Carey used to walk over the you’ve never slept under the fields from Pury End to Paul- brilliant tropical Milky Way erspury Church, using a foot- you haven’t lived). Father told path that came into the church- these sewage collectors not to yard: Our next stop was Piddington come anywhere near us when Church. It was here that Wil- they were doing their work, liam and Dorothy married on 14 Expect great things from God the 10th of June 1781. They set It was here that he first In the cottage William had a up home in a small cottage in preached from this pulpit, that small workshop for his shoe- the village, now replaced by a can still be seen in the church. making trade. It can still be modern house. seen today, along with a trough in which he softened the leather.

In this cottage he started an evening school in order to earn extra money. At this time he also turned to the Baptists after a long disen- In the Guildhall in Northamp- chantment with the Church of In March 1785 the family ton is a portrait of William England. He was working in moved to Moulton, where they Carey along with other worthy Hackleton as a shoemaker in a lived in this cottage alongside citizens of Northamptonshire workshop owned by Thomas the Baptist Church. Old. He also worshipped at Hackleton

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