I mentioned earlier that my maiden name was spelled many ways until my
G-Grandfather settled on the spelling of Carroll. The reason for that
was because the school teacher kept changing the spelling from Carrell
to Carroll. My GGG-grandfather's name was written on his marriage
bond in 1783 by the clerk as Carrol, but the man I believe to be his
father serving as bondsman signed his name as Carrel. Census takers
wrote all the families with one spelling in 1790 and used another
spelling in the next census. Land grants were written by Caroll and
other spellings. The next two generations used Carrell, then the last
three generations have used Carroll. I have no idea what spelling was
used in another country before my ancestor came to the colonies.
Many folks assume if your name is Carroll, your ancestors came from
Ireland, but that isn't necessarily true. There were Germans with
spellings Karl, Carl, Carle, etc. which became Carroll. There were
French and Swiss who came to the colonies early with such spellings as
Carel and Carell and others. Even the ones who came from Ireland had
names written in records here in many different ways. Some Carrolls
who came from Ireland are descended from a man named someting like
Cearbhaill
I search for all, because I don't yet know the origin of mine, how the
name was spelled in the "old country", or what spelling it became when
it was translated into English.....
I wonder how many people are even on this list? There have never been
many letters.
Lura
----- Original Message -----
From: <Ddstevens(a)aol.com>
To: <CARRELL-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:40 PM
Subject: [CARRELL] Re: CARRELL-D Digest V06 #2
: Is there anyone else on this list with the Carrell spelling also
: Caryl...Carill...Caryll?
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