So have we decided on the time yet? 9pm Manchester 8am Sydney? Jim…you’d have to be back from dinner with my little darlings by then (and I know how much you eat!).
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david
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Jim
Seeing not a lot of usage on the site so far
. Hopefully that will improve over time as we add people from the wider Carey brood into the system
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ally
The uncoordinated ally finally managed to log in. Woot.
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Jim
always knew you were bluffing
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ally
I guess my subconscious was controlling my typing fingers and wanted the attention
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Jim
New Theme
I will work on this new theme a bit – how’s about some feedback on your views on this?
Couple points:
1. You can see the notes under the post – e.g. “Jim and jen are discussing, Toggle Comments.” You can click on the Toggle Comments and all the comments will open up for just that Post.
2. You can click on the Reply link at the top right of each post to make a comment on the post
3. You can click on the Toggle Comment Thread up on the Recent Updates Post and comments on all posts will be displayed on the home page (you can also just type the letter “o” in the browser and this will do the same thing)
4. The Carey family Tree link over on the right now logs you into the Carey Family tree site if you are logged in to here
5. Would be lovely if some of you could check the Carey Events Calendar and add/edit any key dates ? – it’s the link over on the right.You can add/edit events in you rDashboard – see again the link on the right.
6. You can get an avatar ( the icon for you that will display at lots of different sites including this one) over at http://gravatar.comcheers
Jim
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andy
Hi Jim,
The comments on posts – they are listed as most recent first which seems slightly confusing – it makes it look like the Carey’s are all psychic.-
Jim
Hmm – guess you may be right – I see facebook does it your way. My reasoning was that if there were a lot of comments then you wouldn’t want to have to scroll down through a lot – but that isn’t likely to happen – so you may be right.
Any views from others ?
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no view from others – so we will try it your way for a while and see if I get any objections
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sean
i think its because everyone is commenting on the story rather than hitting reply
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Jim
Ah – yes – makes sense.
So anyone commenting – make sure you click on the reply button after you have entered your comment. You can comment by clicking on Reply against any of the comments/posts – or click on the Read More or Add Comment link. Then enter your comment but MAKE SURE that you CLICK on the Reply button after you have added your comment
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Jim
By the way – the dropping leaves and jingles will go after Christmas – back to the bubbles theme.
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sean
Christmas skype call
The new version of skype can do group video calling. How about we try and do one at Christmas? We could get careys from all over the place. Just need to install skype 5.0 and pick a time of day! http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/features/allfeatures/group-video-calls/
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Jim
Sounds like an excellent idea to me – how about the rest of you ?
Jim
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jim
Probably would be best on Christmas eve or Christmas morning for the UK lot – going to be real busy here on Christmas Day afternoon/evening
Jim
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sjaan
Sounds great I’ve got everyone here in Gloucester for Christmas. Let me know an approx time. xoxox
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sean
Ok so how about we organise a call for
9PM on Christmas eve (Manchester time)
8AM Christmas morning (Sydney time)You can all huddle around the screen and watch us eat breakfast in shorts
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Jim
sounds good to me – will you make sure guys over there are up to speed on this (haven’t heard back on this from David)
Only issue I have right now is when Susan and David and Jennifer and Mitch arrive here on Christmas eve
Jim
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Jim
OK – we are all set here. Susan and Jennifer and David and Mitch will be here for it.
Sean will you be initiating the call ? I see there is a free 28 day trial period – so that should be fine
Jim
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sean
yep ill organise my mob!
who will run the show in Gloucester? you’ll need a webcam, internet connection and skype v5.0 for windows (the group calling wont work on the mac version yet)
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Jim
Oh – didn’t notice the not working on Mac part – guess I had better get my webcam connected to the laptop
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should we have a test run with one person from each location – just to make sure it will be alright on the night ?
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sean
Jim just tested the video conference using my eee pc, mums windows laptop and lisa’s iMac
And it works great on all of them!
So
- install skype 5.0 with either PC or Mac
- test out your webcam
- jim or sean to invite everyone into the video conference
- click “allow video”"
- click “enable group video conference”
I don’t have the skype details for anyone in gloucester though – who’s account will you guys be using?
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Jim
Niel won’t be up in Gloucester for the call – doesn’t get there until 1230 or so – so the UK guys will try to talk to himat another time to wish him a good big Six O
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Jim
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sean
do you have a jersey you can turn inside-out too?
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Jim
Ho Ho Ho
but that is a really good idea – thanks
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goodness but i am getting some stick over here about the Ashes – ah well – maybe next time
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Quote from some Carey History
Quote from EH Shopland’s (another new relative) book Manifold Memories
“Parish Registers are dull tomes, of interest only to genealogists and solicitors seeking to prove a client’s legal inheritance and to the American anxious to trace his British origin. But now and again a curious entry with an interesting story appears; one such is to be found in the registers of the Parish Church, Clevedon.
In the year 1801, on the 5th day of May, there appears an entry recording the mass Baptism of ten children whose ages range from twins of one year to a girl of eleven years, all children of John and Betty Carey. The story behind this bare entry is that John and Betty Carey lived in the old thatched house (standing yet) in Carey’s Lane (later renamed All Saints’ Lane after All Saints’ Church was built) East Clevedon.
The only church in Clevedon in those days was the Parish Church at West End, and the question of having one’s children baptized being a serious one, and the party being a large one, the parents borrowed the four-wheeled farm wagon, harnessed old Dobbin, and all piled inside and set off for the Parish Church. Upon their arrival the Vicar of the time proceeded to work his way through the very elongated service which was enlivened part-way through by young Jenny Carey waxing impatiently and saying, “My turn next, Daddy.” It was over at last, and the party re-embarked in the farm wagon and returned home.
One of the children baptized that day was Samuel Carey, my grandfather [Jim Carey's note: William Shopland married Margaret Carey daughter of Samuel. Edmund Shopland, son of William Shopland wrote this book]. He built a cottage at East Clevedon, under the now apparently illegal system of “lifehold leases”. By this system he acquired a grant of land on the left hand side at the foot of Strawberry Hill, from the reigning landlord for which, instead of pay money, he signed a lease whereby he named three of his sons and when those three men were all dead, the land and everything on it reverted to the landlord. Upon this land he built three cottages in one of which (still standing) his daughter Margaret (my mother) went to live upon her marriage to William Shopland, and in which I was born on the 25th day of December, 1872.”
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Jim
By The way I have this book now if any of the family is interested – but I have quoted the main bits of interest to Careys
Ji m
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kate
Your website has been really helpful in my research of my family connections to the Carey family. As a matter of interest EH Shopland is in fact Edmund not Edward. His mother was Margaret Carey and he was my great grandfather.
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Jim
excellent – I am so pleased that you found it useful
. I have updated the quote above to get rid of my mistake. I would love it if you could point me to anywhere where you may have documented your tree so i can add to ours
cheers, Jim
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Carey Trivia
Variations:Cary, Carie, Carrie, Carye, Carew, Karry, Keary, Keery, Kayre, de Kary
Like many, the Carey surname possesses four separate and variety origins. The first is an English habitation name for various places in Devon and Somerset, and are so called from their situation near the river Cary.
Places of note being Castle Cary, Cary Fitzpaine and Babcary. The surname is also a Welsh/Cornish variant of Carew, which is known to represent a dweller by the hill fort.
Another possible derivation of the Carey surname is as a habitation name for settlers from the Norman Manor of Carrey near Lisieux (the etymology of which is uncertain). It is also the family name of the Viscounts Falkland.It is also recognised as an Anglicised form of the Gaelic surname of O Ciardha.
All of which is a frightening prospect for genealogists looking to trace their surname back to one single root origin, which is why surnames can only be looked on as clues to family tree riddles rather than answers.
The name is established in most English counties, but is found primarily in the West Country.
Early recorded mentions of the Carey surname include Richard de Kary (1242) noted in the Liber Feodorum, together with a Robert Karye (1296) recorded in the Sussex Subsidy Rolls. Famous examples of the Carey surname and its variants throughout history include: George Leonard Carey (1935-), Anglican clergyman and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002; and Peter Carey (1943-), Australian writer, author of The True History Of The Kelly Gang and Oscar And Lucinda. Of course there is also a John Carey from Bristol (~1610) that was part of the Plymouth Pilgrims that went to the good old US of A (hope we can show a link to here at some poiunt as that branch is very well researched)
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Jim
The name Carey along with its other derivations…
The name Carey, along with its other derivations, yields a long and illustrious history in North Western Europe, specifically in what is now the British Isles, the Republic of Ireland, and North West France.
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Thanks to Glyn Brian in Gwent
Received some great input from Glyn Brian in Gwent. Glyn is a relative descended from Samuel Carey (brother to John Carey that I am descended from and son of John and Betty Carey). Glyn passed me the item about the mass baptism that is recorded in EH Shopland’s (another new relative) book Manifold Memories. I have ordered this book from an antiquarian bookseller in the UK. Glyn has passed me stacks of great information. Thanks Glyn – you’re a marvel!
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Christmas
Really looking forward to Christmas – should have 13 people plus Ben (the miniature schnauzer – making 14 so not unlucky ) around the table. Just trying to workout how to fit 13 people on a table whose maximum capacity is 12 – hmmm – these things were sent to be solved Will be thinking of the Carey’s around the world and my immediate family in Australia.
have a nice one all
Jim
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jen
Mitchel can sit on the floor!
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Jim
excellent – problem solved – trust a woman to think of the ideal solution
Jim
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Some photos from Bec and Andy’s wedding back in February. You can see more in their album at Bec and Andy’s Wedding Album
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Weather
Well it’s been a brrrr very cold few days. Getting up in the morning to take the dog for a walk around the Mere in the snow – not my idea of fun at all.But goodness doesn’t it look pretty when the snow is crisp and clean. We were driving to Manchester today to visit the German Christmas Market and driving along the road between Congleton and Holmes Chapel it was -6C.Looking out of the car every tree and blade of grass was covered with ice. It looked like a crystal wonderland!
Shame it all melts and gets slushy – ah well – enjoy while you can
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jim
And the arctic conditions are returning !
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Jennifer and Mitchell’s Wedding
Selection of photo’s from Jennifer and Mitchells Wedding – you can see more in the Gallery Link – Jen and Mitch’s Album
Click on any small image to expand
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Jim
New web site
We are just introducing our new web site look and feel – hopefully this will go down well. The aim is to make it easier to add comments, posts and articles to the site and to make it more interactive for all. Hopefully this can become a living site. Initially I will add back in some of the articles but I encourage people to log in and to add their own articles. I will contact the current users and re-issue passwords etc and let’s make this work.
You can now go to the Family Tree link – in the menu links above and see some of the Carey Genealogy and Family History. I have made the page open up in a new browser window for simplicity. You will not have a common login between the two windows and would need to login to the family history system seperately. Now if you are logged in you will see more info on living people (pretty much the only extra besides editing). If you aren’t logged in then you will see “Private” for living people and details for those no longer with us. Would appreciate any photos etc that you may wish to be included for your family
If you don’t have a userid and are part of the extended family – then ask me for one
I am about to implement an editing feature that will allow you to submit changes/additions to the site – I will have to Vet them – but this should speed things up a bit
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Jim 9:03 pm on December 18, 2010
yep – such a bird like eater am I. Yep that timing seems right – hope that suits ?
Jim