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Author: Mcbeav
Surnames: Carroll, Dunn(e), Sheehan, Smiddy, Gillespie, McGinley, Kieley
Classification: queries
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Good morning. I also have relatives that moved to Liverpool from Northern Ireland but
during or right after the potato famine (late 1840's or early 1850's). The
Carroll's of that area (County Louth, County Down, partial County Antrim) are of the
Oriel Sept and finally lost their lands to the English Plantation plague that hit in the
early 1600's. There are some Carroll's that matched the first names (Frank and
Edwin) of the paternal side of my family buried in Raloo Cemetery southwest of Belfast.
Raloo does not exist anymore, but the cemetery does. It is a settlement of Crawfords and
Blairs who came from Scotland during the Plantation era. It appears that the only choices
that Carroll's had were to either assimilate with the Scot's, move to America (or
elsewhere), or die. I have found through Y-DNA research, relatives that moved to the
Carolina's during this period. I assume at this point that my male relations married
into the Scottish families, especially since my !
Great Grandfather who born in 1852 was 6'5" in 1866. Most indigenous Irish
persons are under 6' during the mid-1800's. Also think I found my Great Great
Grandfather who married a protestant Mary McKibbons in 1843 in County Down. I think the
reason I am not Protestant today is because my Great Grandfather came to United States at
age 17 after being on the sea for 10 years without any religion, and married a Catholic
woman from Lowell, Massachusetts. Are you involved in Y-DNA research? My kit number is
31491. Best of luck in your search and keep in touch. Regards, Mike Carroll
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