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Author: richardknight134
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Has anybody heard the story of Benjamin Carrol, of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England. A
publican there had a News Years custom of offering charitable dinners to the old men of
the town. According to the local paper,"Croydon's Weekly Standard" on Jan 4
1862, one of the old men benefiting from his largesse was a BENJAMIN CARROL, aged 76, and
the article refered to him, intriguingly, as "being the son of the seventh wife of
his father". Benjamin was born in Olney but I don't know specifically who his
father was.
However, there are seven parish record entries for marriages of "John
Carrol"(the surname being spelled with some variation) in the eighteenth century.
They were as follows; 1735-Elizabeth Swain, bur 1737; 1738-Mary Abraham, bur ?; 1743-Mary
Martimore, bur 1750; 1751-Sarah Fisher, bur 1751 or 1761; 1761-Martha Standish, bur ?;
1783-Anna Maria Wheatley, bur 1785. There is also a burial for a John Carrol in 1787.
Could all these marriage have been contracted by the same John Carrol? There are in fact
four baptismal entries which could tie up with these marriages, all "John son of
John" - viz, in 1699, 1713, 1717, 1736 - and just one burial of a "John son of
John" - in 1715.
If anybody has any information, or any thoughts about this "lurv-machine"
I'd love to hear from them!
(I'm going to post this on the CARROLL page too)
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