Lura, I do so wish that I could connect Absolum Carroll with a family. I think (don't have my papers handy, so this is from memory, as flawed as it may be!) that Absolum and his wife arrived in Baltimore, but as I said this is without my papers handy. He was Methodist. I do know that and that may well be why he left Ireland. He left Cork for America. I think (without my papers, I am not 100% on this) that his son, Absolum fought in the American Revolution. If so, his papers would be available and this may help to connect to your ancestor. I only began my Carroll research a few years ago and have not done a thorough job, but there are so many gracious Carroll descendants who share material that I think you will find your man. Good luck, Alma
Thank you, Alma. There certainly are a lot of "gracious Carroll descendants", but there WERE also a lot of CARROLLs and CARRELLs that came to this continent many years ago. I wish there were better ship lists or other records of those who came on small cargo ships into the rivers and loading docks other than the main ports. Does anyone know of a good source for these ships. I am especially interested in the NC and SC area. Lura ----- Original Message ----- From: <JohnR25442@aol.com> To: <CARROLL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 11:41 AM Subject: [CARROLL] Re: CARROLL-D Digest V01 #80 > Lura, > I do so wish that I could connect Absolum Carroll with a family. I > think (don't have my papers handy, so this is from memory, as flawed as it > may be!) that Absolum and his wife arrived in Baltimore, but as I said this > is without my papers handy. He was Methodist. I do know that and that may > well be why he left Ireland. He left Cork for America. I think (without my > papers, I am not 100% on this) that his son, Absolum fought in the American > Revolution. If so, his papers would be available and this may help to connect > to your ancestor. > I only began my Carroll research a few years ago and have not done a > thorough job, but there are so many gracious Carroll descendants who share > material that I think you will find your man. > Good luck, > Alma > >