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Surnames: Carroll, Carrel, Carle, C-640
Classification: Query
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Max,
You have been answering this question for years, here and elsewhere, yet there is always a
new Carroll person believing, incorrectly, that they are descended from C.C. of C. I have
yet to find even one person who is a descendant of his. People keep inventing sons of his
who never existed. Not only did C.C. of C. have but one son, but also only one grandson,
and only one great grandson, all named Charles Carroll.
Now he may have had great great grandsons, but they would have to have been born after
about 1848.
There is a Carroll living in the Carroll Manor who I think is named Philip Carroll. Do
you know how he fits in?
I would dearly love to see a male descendant of C.C. of C., if such even exist, take a
Y-DNA test say at FamilyTreeDNA. If that could ever be arranged, it would have the
potential of forever proving or disproving descent from him. But I am not about to go to
Maryland and knock on his door, and ask him for a DNA sample with a cheek swab in hand. I
can already feel the buckshot in my behind!
But for the rest of us Carrolls, there is a Carroll family Y-DNA project established at
FTDNA, with 35 members at last count. Various Carroll lines are beginning to be sorted
out, mostly from Ireland. In my Carroll case, however, our Y-DNA has been proven to be
Slavic, not Irish. Our earliest spelling is Carle or Carrel, late 1700s, Pennsylvania.
Not Catholic but Presbyterian, and apparently not Scots-Irish. More like Hungarian...
Best Wishes to all Carroll Researchers,
Eric