LOL you are not alone Lura. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lura" <[email protected]> To: "Lura" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 2:14 PM Subject: Re: [CARROLL] Y-DNA Search for Immigrant Ancestor >I apologize to the mail list. > > I thought the letter I just wrote was a personal letter to Eric. I > didn't notice until it was going out that it was also going to the > mail list. So now you all know.... I'm too old to work in the > yard!!!! > > Please forgive the personal note, > > Lura > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lura" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 2:10 PM > Subject: Re: [CARROLL] Y-DNA Search for Immigrant Ancestor > > > : Eric, > : > : On Duplin County, NC is 1783, My Alexander's marriage bond, the > clerk > : had written his name as "Carrol". However, at the bottom the person > : signing as his bondsman, (his father I'm pretty sure) signed "Demcy > : Carrel". That is the earliest signature I have of an ancestor. In > : 1790 all ten families were listed on the cesus as Carrol. In 1800, > : they were all Carrell. > : > : I pay no attention to spelling. Although R1b1, I still consider > that > : we MAY be French, Swiss, or no telling what! Actually, I think we > : are Ulster Scots or "Scotch-Irish" as my father said. > : > : I'm not getting much done of late. Health has to catch up with me > : occasionally. I tried to do a little in the yard.... can't do that > : any more!! > : > : Lura > : > : > : ----- Original Message ----- > : From: "Eric Olson" <[email protected]> > : To: "genealogy-dna" <[email protected]>; "Carroll-l" > : <[email protected]> > : Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:02 AM > : Subject: [CARROLL] Y-DNA Search for Immigrant Ancestor > : > : > :: > :: The Census Bureau tells me that surname Carrel is found at a > : frequency of 1 / 4.35 million in the USA. At the time of the > : Revolutionary War the total population in the Colonies was about > : 300,000. I can roughly guesstimate then that there may have been > : about 14 Carrels here in the 1780s, and perhaps 7 were male. Point > is > : they were rare. My ancestor Philip Carrel would be one of them. > :: > :: Now I find another Philip Carrel in the Maryland Archives of 1730. > : Perhaps he is an ancestor, perhaps not. But the interesting thing > is > : that in the Maryland record Philip Carrel is in court charged with > : fornication. (For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge)? > :: > :: This complicates my Y-DNA search for immigrant ancestor by > haplotype > : and surname. At the moment there are zero matches (except for a > : cousin). If said fornication resulted in a male child, he could be > : surnamed anything at all, but genetically related. > :: > :: Eric > :: DY8VJ > :: > :: ------------------------------- > :: To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > : [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > : quotes in the subject and the body of the message > : > : > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >