CAREY, FERDINAND [SSNE 8151]

Surname

CAREY, KAREY, CARRY, CARREY

First name

FERDINAND, FERDINANDO, FERNANDO

Title/rank

CAPTAIN

Nationality

ENGLISH

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Ferdinand Carey was an English officer in the Anglo-Dutch Brigade. He served at the siege of Bergen-op-Zoom in 1622, where he was wounded twice. A contemporary account of the siege states that Carey died of his second wound, but a footnote in Calendar of State Papers, Venetian records that he eventually recovered. It is probable that it was this same Ferdinand Carey who was promoted to sergeant-major in 1624 and subsequently sergeant-major in 1632. He was gone by 1638 when he was replaced by Ferdinand Knightly [SSNE 8169].

 

Sources:

Anon., A iournall or daily register of all those warlike atchieuments which happened in the siege of Berghen-up-Zoome in the Low-countries… All faithfully translated out of the original Low-Dutch copie (London, 1622), p. 3, 11.

CSPV, 1621-1623: 22 Aug. 1622--Surian to the Doge and Senate, p. 395.

Rijcke, Lambertus de, Vayus, Nathan and Rieu, Job du, Bergen op den Zoom, Beleghert op den 18 Iujilj 1622, ende Ontleghert den 3 Octobris des selven Iaers… ende heft sich erbarmt over fijn volck, (Middleburg, 1623), list of officers appearing at the end of the book.

Ten Raa, F.J.G, and de Bas, F., Het Staatsche Leger, 1568-1795, IV (Breda, 1918), p. 243.

 

This entry created by Mr Jack Abernethy.

Service record

THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, ANGLO-DUTCH BRIGADE

Arrived 1622-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1638-05-19, as LIEUTENANT-COLONEL

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY