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/ > > >