Actually...
In french, CARRIER and CARRIERE are 2 different names.
Two different family lines.
In Canada, the CARRIERE line started through Pierre JAMME / GEMME
(1662-1740)
He was a career soldier (carriere = career) and so the people tacked on the
name CARRIERE to his name and today, more than 3/4's of his descendants use
the name CARRIERE. It isn't used in France.
The Canadian CARRIER line (used in France) started through
Jean CARRIER
s/o Jean CARRIER & Elisabeth AYRAULT
m. May 18 1639 St-Georges-des-Coteaux, Saintes, Saintonge, France
Jeanne DODIER
(parents unknown - not in Register)
Their son Jean CARRIER (born 1640 Saintonge, France) came to Canada and
married Barbe HALAY (born 1645 St-Julien-du-Coudray, Chartres, France).
Over 80% of the CARRIERs in North America descend from him. About 15% of the
CARRIER descendants have had their name changed (Priests or Government
officials) to CARRIERE -- my wife's family had their name changed this way 4
generations back. They didn't even know they were CARRIERs until I told
them, six years ago.
BTW... The Jean CARRIERs listed above were actually spelled Jehan CARRIER or
CARRIAY. Jehan is the Old-French way to spell Jean. That is why there is
still an H in the English name John (Old-English way to spell John was
Johan)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Neal F. Carrier" <carrier(a)americu.net>
To: <CARRIER-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [CARRIER] Rosa Carrier
I doubt that she is.
I think the Italian version of Carrier is Carriero, as the French version
is Carriere.
Here in Rome N.Y. there are a lot of Italians and there are a few
Carriero's listed in the phone book.
------- Snipped to save our database --------