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Author: cretiac
Surnames: Carrico
Classification: queries
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I, too, am descended from John W. Carrico of Prince William and Fauquier counties. I
believe John W. Carrico is the son of John Carrico and Nancy. The 1830 Prince William
census shows John with one female in his household over the age of 5 and 3 males under the
age of 5. The 1850 Fauquier county census shows that John's oldest child, Mary E., was
born about 1823. The next child, a boy named Thomas Henry, was born about 1826, and
another son, Josiah, was born about 1830. John W. was born about 1827, so he could be the
third male under age 5 in the 1830 census, although he does not appear in John's 1850
census in Fauquier as he was married and is shown as head of household in Prince William.
If you are from Prince William, then you know that the area in which the Carricos of
Prince William and the Carricos of Fauquier lie in close proximity to each other. John W.
moved to Fauquier and appears in the 1860 census in Fauquier, while John and the other
members of his family appear!
in the Ohio census for 1860. Although I have not been able to locate documentation that
John W. is in fact the son of John, there is evidence in the censuses to support that
theory. It also may be that John is the son of William, who appeared in the Prince William
census in 1810 with a male between the ages of 10 and 15 years. John was born about 1798.
In some of the trees, someone has attached John Wesley Carrico to John W. Carrico as his
father. (Note that there is another John W. Carrico born of Josiah Carrico, who I believe
is John's brother, in 1827. That family moved to Culpeper and that John W. was not
married in the 1850 census.) Censuses show that John Wesley Carrico lived and died in
Grayson County, Virginia. Our John appears in Ohio in the 1860 census and recently someone
has posted a picture of a marker of John Carrico's grave in Ohio. There is no doubt in
my mind that this is our John and that it is most likely he is the father of John W.
Carrico of Fauquier County. I hope someone will correct the John Wesley Carrico error.
I will soon retire, and I hope to visit the library in Prince William, which has an
excellent genealogy section. Perhaps I can find some documentation that will confirm these
speculations. Then I hope somehow we will be able to determine which of the Maryland
Carricos were the ancestors of our Virginia Carricos. My father's DNA proves we are
descendants of Peter I, but with all the Williams, Johns, Peters, Jameses, etc., in every
generation, it is almost impossible to figure which one belongs to which before 1850. Our
branch appears not to have been good record keepers, or if they were, I know Marion
Francis, my great grandfather, had a fire which may have destroyed many of the family
records. And many of the Fauquier records of the Civil War era are missing.
I hope this doesn't just confuse things further. I am interested in your thoughts and
any information/documentation you may have. If you check the Warren Family Tree on
Ancestry.com, you will find the family tree from John W. downwards. Those are all
verified.
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