Dora, Some of the Carruthers family is well documented in a book called Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement. Patterns, Links and Letters. It is authored by Cecil Houston and William Smyth.The book devotes about 45 pages to the family including letters back and forth from Fermanagh to Canada. The book states that there is a series of these letters in the PRONI. Here is an excerpt. "The Carrothers family had emigrated from Scotland in 1602. Slowly, in generational steps, they made their way to Brookeborough in County Fermanagh. In 1769 Nathaniel and Joseph's grandfather, Edward, left Brookeborough, established two of his sons on a farm at Bracky, and in turn established himself and two other sons in neighbouring Farnaght. The next generational moves were those of seventeen of Edward's grandchildren to Upper Canada. Subsequently, the westward trend to the pacific continued. The letters of Nathaniel and Joseph suggest, and the family's history confirms, that the children of the emigrants to British North America continued the patters of their parents' pioneering and migratory life. Many of them took part in the western move of Ontarions after 1870...... Some of this family also went to Australia. The Carrothers letters mention 27 other family names who emigrated from this area just south of Enniskillen to the same places in Ontario. You can probably find this book at the library in St. Catherines. David Black