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Surnames: Carraway Carway Carvey
Classification: Query
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Hi Margaret, Some Carraways from Sligo emigrated to Castleton Vermont in the mid 1800s.
The name evolved in to Carvey around the turn of the century but even in the 1970s the
older folks still refered to them as the Carraways. If you are familiar with the Irish
language you know there is very little to chose between the "w" sound and the
"v" sound, thus accounting for the different anglicized forms of the old Irish
name.
Jim Carvey of Pittsford Vermont is the only member of this family that I know of that has
done any genealogical work but I dont know how far back he took it or if he just started
with the American descendants.
Regards, Peter Patten, Fair Haven,Vermont (not related)