Colin Carlin has written to me from Bath, England, with regard to the Rock
Island Carlins of Leck Parish, County Donegal, Ireland. His email address is
ColinCarlin(a)compuserve.com.
"From William Porchman Carlin I have a copy of the following:
_____A letter from a Charles Gordon of 3927 29th Avenue, Rock Island, Illinois,
61201, dated May 1996 to Wm. Carlin in Switzerland. This concerns Charles
Gordon's
research into the family of a James Carlin and Mary Dougherty. James was
the son of a Wm. Carlin who married Cecilia Ross of Leck Parish, Co. Donegal.
_____I have transcripts of a letter from Lisbellaw, Ireland dated May 22, 1829
addressed to "Dear Brother John" from "your loving brother James
Carlon"
Gives family news.
_____Plus:
from Probate Records film No. 103770, vol.12 1862-1873, pages 618,618,620.
No source given but it may be ex LDS.
These outline the family of Wm. and Cecilia."
If anyone has information about William and Cicilia (Ross) Carlin of Leck
Parish,
or their son James Carlin (and his wife, Mary Dougherty), or if anyone would
like
to see the information gathered by Charles Gordon and Colin Carlin, please
write to Charles Gordon by snail mail to the Rock Island, IL, address above,
or by email to Colin Carlin in Bath, England.