Coming of age

It was in the year 1547 that Henry Carey was considered having his majority, apparently at the age of 21. A rather interesting thing if you consider that in the January of that year Henry VIII died leading to his son Edward VI taking the throne. 

Allow me to wax philosophy here, as it indeed a pretty important year for Carey overall, while he is yet to be Lord Hunsdon,  the rule of Edward and Mary are relatively obscure one for him (you can see how much the fact he was Elizabeth cousin played in his favour, because had he not been elevated at the time of her crowning he probably been confine to obscurity). Still in that year he inherited the possession of his family, both his father and grandparents. He would become a deputy of Buckinghamshire and it is likely the birthdates of his first child George Carey. I think these three will be our next topics for the coming days.

Also I'm giving a hoot to the website  All things robert Dudley who told me on facebook that Henry Carey was an horse officer and was indeed not involve in the navy in 1545, so check them out it seem a most interesting site and quite well research. (They at least seem better than me when it come to writing article). 

http://allthingsrobertdudley.wordpress.com/

(Yes this is me making this article a bit on the fly here as I wasn't able to properly gather information for a more focus article today, Henry Carey a lot more under the radar during the next ten years)