It's raining hard here in upstate NY, the creeks are rising, the flats are
flooding and they're evacuating homes down in the valley.
A good day for genealogy research.
Some time ago I bought a set of set of cd's from the Family History Center
containing vital records indes for England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales.
Good time to try and track down some of my mothers elusive Welsh
ancestors. After a couple of hours of searching and swapping cd's I got
fed up as I couldn't find one.
Thought I'd see if I could find our elusive ancestor Thomas in Wales.
Darn, not one Carrier listed from Wales.
OK, lets try all countries and I came up with an interesting find.
There was a Thomas Carrior born May 31, 1632 in Wirksworth, Derbyshire,
England whose father was a Richard Carrior.
Ok, the spelling is different, the dob is 6 years off, if this Thomas was
the kings executioner, he would have been 17 when Charlie lost his head.
BUT this is the only Thomas anywhere near ours. In the 1600's & later,
familys used a common naming pattern for their children. The first son was
named after the paternal grandfather & the second son after the Maternal
one. Thomas & Martha seemed to have done this so Thomas's father PROBABlY
was named Richard.
Anyhow, I think this bears further investigation and Wirksworth was in the
middle of the English civil war with supporters for both sides from there.
time to cojitate on it.