Both of my parents are descendants of Peter Carrico, our original ancestor.
My father is a descendant of Nancy Carrico Litsey and my mother is a
descendant of Ann Carrico who married Benjamin Turner Gibbons. The Gibbons
were Catholic. They did eventually became members of the Pleasant Hill
Baptist Church in Alabama. Several Gibbons family members are buried in
this church cemetery. My grandmother Gibbons told me that our family was
Catholic at one point. Most of the Carrico/Gibbons descendants in my
family had black hair color from what I can tell from family photos. I
have a pioneer looking photo of Nancy Carrico Litsey and her hair color
looks black in the photo. The dark hair color in the family could tell
something about the origins of our family, not sure exactly. Thanks, Ms.
Fitch
[Original Message]
From: Diana Gale Matthiesen <DianaGM(a)dgmweb.net>
To: <carrico(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: 11/15/2010 8:19:38 PM
Subject: Re: [CARRICO] Passing along Carrico information
Thank you for the links, Katie.
I'm generalizing.... but it appears, at least to me, that the Maryland
CARRICOs
who descend from Peter I, the immigrant, were Catholic, and that
those who
descend from Peter II and migrated to Kentucky (and westwards) were also
Catholic. Those who descend from son Abel, who migrated from Maryland to
Virginia, are said to have been Protestant, at least in later
generations. So
far, I know of no American CARRICOs descended from Peter I who are
Jewish,
however...
The American descendants of Peter I are Haplogroup J2a4b, and Haplogroup
J2 is
common among Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews (15-30%):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_J2_%28Y-DNA%29
Their haplogroup is not proof Peter's ancestors were Jewish, but it's not
inconsistent with them having been Jewish.
I believe DNA testing will someday give us an answer, at least to the
question
of *where* Peter I came from. We just have to keep finding and
testing
more
European CARRICOs.
Diana
> -----Original Message-----
> From: carrico-bounces(a)rootsweb.com
[mailto:carrico-bounces@rootsweb.com] On
> Behalf Of Kathlyn W Carico
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 2:00 PM
> To: carrico(a)rootsweb.com
> Subject: Re: [CARRICO] Passing along Carrico information
>
> The best source I know to show for Carrico orgins is here:
>
http://dgmweb.net/DNA/Carrico/CarricoDNA.html
> One of the questions the study hopes to answer is:
>
> "3) Was Peter CARRICO, many of whose descendants are Roman Catholic,
related
to
> the converso, Pero Dias CARRICO, who was imprisoned by the Spanish
Inquisition
in
> Portugal in 1629-33 for the crime of "Judaismo"
> and forced to convert to Catholicism to gain his release?"
>
> Someday maybe a match will be found that will answer the question of
Carrico
origin.
> If it can be proven that Peter is the son of Pedro Dias Carrico then it
would
be very
> like to assume that the Carricos at that point were Jewish. There is a
lot
of
> interesting information to be gleaned from Diana's research
and data.
Hope
this
> helps to answer the questions of Carrico origins.
>
>
> Katie Carico
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