(O) Carey (Mac) KEIGHRY
{At the same time it must be remembered that Carey has been adopted as the
anglicized form of several other Irish surnames; to those given on pp. 73,
74 (op. cit.) the Norman name Carew may be added, which in fact is often
pronounced Carey by the people bearing it. The majority of the numerous
familes called Carey belong to the O Ciardha sept of the southern Ui Néill,
originally located in south Ulster and north Leinster, not to that of Mac
Fhiachra.}
From
More Irish Families. MacLysght, Edward, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1982,
p. 50
We have even seen Carey & Carew in the same family generation. Ship
passenger lists that read Carey, but the immigrants themselves use the Carew
spelling. Same with some census. One census taker writes Carew; another
writes Carey. And then there is the Cary family - most likely an English
branch of the Carews of Carew Castle in Wales. Cary appears about the 13th
century. Most difficult!
John Young
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