I'm fairly new to this, and for right now, I'm just hoping to see messages from other people researching the Carrolls. My information is limited (right now) to family stories. My Great-Grandfather, William Patrick Carroll immigrated from Ireland approx 1840-1850. The story is that his name was originally O'Carroll, but he dropped the O upon entering this country. The story is that he came from County Clare, but from what I've seen, few Carrolls seem to have come from there...they seem to be more in other counties in Ireland. My mother's memories (and she was not young when I heard the story, so she might have mis-remembered things) were that he entered the county in Boston, bringing with him a wife whom he'd met and married on the ship coming over. She wasn't Irish, however, she was French. (Unfortunatly, my mother barely remembered her, except for some handcrafts she'd made. Nor did my mother remember this woman's name). According to a 1905 census, my grandfather (also William Patrick Carroll) was born in PA in 1870, though he died in Elmira, NY. So until I can get his birth certificate, I have way too little to go on. Sharon Baker Carroll, Stedge, Teresi, Leone > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com