Doreen, Thank you! That's the first bit of positive information I've seen about the Carrol name so far! I appreciate it. Sharon Carroll, Stedge, Teresi, Leone >From: "Edward Fawcett" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [FIANNA-L] WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN >Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 21:21:49 +0100 > >Dear Sharon >Had a quick look at some passenger lists I have in a reference book. >Only William CARROLL I could find was on the ship INFANTRY from >Liverpool to New York 29 July 1850. >Best wishes >Doreen Corr Fawcett >-----Original Message----- >From: Sharon Baker <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >Date: 03 September 1999 05:15 >Subject: Re: [FIANNA-L] WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN > > > >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 > > > > > >==== FIANNA Mailing List ==== > >The Fianna, where St Patricks's Day is EVERYDAY! > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/ > >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/4404/ > > > > > > > > >==== FIANNA Mailing List ==== >Irish Researchers helping Irish Researchers >Irish research in the United States and in Ireland! > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/ ***Award Winner*** Thanks to Chirho >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/4404/ > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com