I admit that my vision was not good and I was thinking only of Hyde Co and
other North Carolina Counties. And I was thinking of Original legal
documents. I acknowledge that there is a book in the library in New Bern
that has two Carawan men that were supposed to have married in Maryland
early in the nineteenth century, but I haven't seen the source document and
assumed that the researcher had selected Carawan because he knew that the
name existed to day. Claud
----- Original Message -----
From: "John McGowan" <jmack(a)carolina.net>
To: <CARAWAN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 10:46 PM
Subject: [Fwd: CARAWAN Surname]
Claud,
Do you mean the appearance of the Carawan surname "just" in Hyde
County? I ask because I found the name spelled that way several times
in Dorchester Co., Maryland in the early and mid 1700s, along with other
spellings including Kirwan and variations. I found Carawan and Kirwan
used for the same individual in one or two documents. Of course, there
is no absolute proof, yet, that these people were our ancestors, but I
have a gut feeling that they were.
John
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cwcarawan wrote:
>
> Thanks Kitty for verifying my resent e mail.
> I had never published my opinion regarding the first use of the name
> CARAWAN on an official document, but I thought that it was used on an
> advertisement that there was to be a sale of the personalty of John
Green
> Carawan who had recently deceased in about 1868. Your statement
presses
the
> use of CARAWAN on an official document back 9 years. Does anyone
out
there
> think that they have seen an official document issued prior to
1859 that
had
> the name CARAWAN in it.
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