English instance is the Cariet who coined money in London for
Æthelred II. in 1016. Certainly the name, through its forms of
Crew, Carew, Carey, and Cary, still prevails on the Irish
coast--from which depression of trade drove the family first to
Yorkshire, then to the Northamptonshire village of Yelvertoft, and
finally to Paulerspury, farther south--as well as over the whole
Danegelt from Lincolnshire to Devonshire. If thus there was Norse
blood in William Carey it came out in his persistent missionary
daring, and it is pleasant even to speculate on the possibility of
such an origin in one who was all his Indian life indebted to
Denmark for the protection which alone made his career possible.

The Careys who became famous in English history sprang from Devon.
For two and a half centuries, from the second Richard to the second
Charles, they gave statesmen and soldiers, scholars and bishops, to
the service of their country. Henry Carey, first cousin of Queen
Elizabeth, was the common ancestor of two ennobled houses long since
extinct--the Earls of Dover and the Earls of Monmouth. A third
peerage won by the Careys has been made historic by the patriotic
counsels and self-sacrificing fate of Viscount Falkland, whose
representative was Governor of Bombay for a time. Two of the heroic
Falkland's descendants, aged ladies, addressed a pathetic letter to
Parliament about the time that the great missionary died, praying
that they might not be doomed to starvation by being deprived of a
crown pension of £80 a year. The older branch of the Careys also
had fallen on evil times, and it became extinct while the future
missionary was yet four years old. The seventh lord was a weaver
when he succeeded to the title, and he died childless. The eighth
was a Dutchman who had to be naturalised, and he was the last. The
Careys fell lower still. One of them bore to the brilliant and