Looking for information on any of the following Carrolls:
Husband: Edward Carroll - only know he was probably born in Dublin, Ireland
Wife: Margaret Carroll - Carroll was also her maiden name, born County Carlow
or Dublin, Ireland
Children: Josephine Carroll, born July 15,1859 in Washington, DC (or area).
Married Nov. 16, 1890 to Timothy David Fennessy. Her Children: Elizabeth
Winifred Fennessy, b. 1892; Thomas Vincent Fennessy (my grandfather), b. 1893
in Tuckahoe, NY; Edward Fennessy, b. 1895; Margaurette M. Fennessy, b. 897.
Winifred Carroll, born after 1860.
NOTES: Definitely Catholic. They had a total of 6 children. Four of them
prior to Josephine and Winifred, but who died on or shortly before birth.
Possible lead: Trinity Church Records - Washington, D.C. January 31, 1859 -
Baptised and received into the Church, Mrs. Margaret Carroll, aged about 27
years.
Also: Michael Carroll...probably brother, or brother-in-law to Margaret. He
was born about 1820 in County Carlow, Ireland. He died May 26, 1881, in
Mackay, Australia and is buried in Catholic cemetary in MacKay.
His wife...Unknown
Daughter Sarah Mary (see below).
Information on Michael so far:
From the book "In Their Own Hands" by K. W. Manning, and
sent to me by
Beatrice Browne, Research Officer of the Genealogical Society of
Queensland,
Inc.
from page 47-49*: Michael Carroll came of a "good family" of County Carlow,
Ireland. He landed in Sydney aged about 20 years, about 1840 and arrived at
MacKay (Australia) in 1866. He was an experienced cattle man by then and had
had modest success as a gold miner. He acquired, in addition to other
blocks, about a square mile of country on the North Side centered on Portions
130 and 27 Bassett which he called Miclere. the name had special
significance for him both as an Irish place name and as the name of the gold
field (near Clermont Q) where he was said to have done well. A few months
after Carroll had settled in, John Emmanuel Pain took up three small blocks
adjacent to him (in early 1870), totalling about half a square mile. They
included the hilly area today identified by Majuba Hill. Pine planted cane
in 1871 and had a steam mill ready in 1872. Carroll planted cane about the
same time and together with lloyd and Walker on Norbrook, which adjoined
Miclere on part of its eastern boundary and Dulverton on the north, made a
two-year crushing agreement with Paine" and page 49: Carroll bought
Dulverton some time after the 1873 harvest, having been joined in partnership
by John S. Avery - Dulverton later became Miclere...The partnership was
dissolved in the late seventies but when Carroll died of pneumonia in May
1881, Avery was manager. The name Miclere is still known in Mackay today.
*other pages that Michael Carroll or Miclere are mentioned are: 19, Part 10,
52-3, 55, 66, 86, 91, 97, 114, 124, 150, 153, & 188.
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A letter written to his sister Margaret from Miclere Plantation, dated
November 23rd, 1879
My Dearest Sister,
I am in receipt of your welcome letter of the 20th of August last. It only
came to hand this month. I am my dear Margaret happy to hear from you and
your family that you are in good health. As I am and family, thank God, are
at present, but for rheumatism or lombago in the back, which is very annoying
to me, I would be all right. I have it on and off now for 15+ years. It
has been caused from camping out and lying on damp ground when I was sheep
farming and also exploring or looking out for new country, and consequently
had to, what we Australians call, roughing it; lying out for months under the
canopy of heaven. I am sincerely sorry that my poor brother Lius(?) should
have died a Freemason as I am aware of the voice of the one, but true church
condemning such societies. May God have mercy on his soul and on poor Maria
and Theresa. I have heard from my nephew James of their deaths sometime ago.
I am now busy with the crushing and manufacture of sugar. We will make
nearly 300 tons this year. We were unfortunate in the years 75 & 76. The
rust, a disease in the cane, nearly ruined all the planters in Queensland.
Indeed it ruined many but our agents knowing me so long and having confidence
in me, helped us through. We have now had nearly 3 years success in the cane
and we trust in God to tide over the difficulties on debt we contracted in
the bad times. We had a mortgage of some 6,000 pounds on the estate at the
end of 1876. We hope to reduce it to 1,000 pounds by the end of next July.
Our working expenses amounts to 3,000 pounds per annum. We occupy about 60
South Sea Islanders and from 100 to 125 Europeans or skilled laborers
principally English or Irish. We cultivate 2600 acres of cane. I have a
partner, but I am the principal and has invested some 1600 pounds over my
partner in the affair. Now my dear sister, I will let you know of your
niece, my daughter, Sarah Mary (Carroll). She is now 19 years old and has
been at a convent school in New South Wales within a few miles of the city of
Sydney. A distance from here of 1400 miles. In fact its the head school in
the colonys for girls. It cost me ? 80 pounds per annum for her schooling
and other expenses. She is a nice girl. I had a grat wish that it would be
her vocation to remain and give herself unto the service of God, but
unfortunately her last letter tells me its not her vocation to be a nun
although she thought it would be. I will send you her photograph and mine
taken together when I was in Sydney last April. I would my dear Margaret
have assisted you before this only for our difficulties in debt, but the time
I trust will arrive when I trust I can be able to do so. Write often to me
and give my love to your husband and my nieces. Also to Wm. Cusack and
family and to all my relatives. C. is still a sufferer from asthma. I and
wife and daughter send our love to you and yours hoping this may find in good
health as we are. Thank God at present, Remain my dear sister,
affectionately brother M. Carroll, I am still in ?
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The following was listed in Pugh's Almanac - MICLERE PLANTATION - owner M.
Carroll. Area 1100 acres of scrub and forest land, 200 being under cane;
machinery takes off a crop of 400 tons of sugar in the season; distance (from
Mackay) six and a half miles.
In 1888 Miclere became part of the FARLEIGH plantation owned by Sir J. B.
Lawes and managed by F. W. Bolton.
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Beatrice Browne, Researcher, Genealogical Society of Queensland, Inc., stated
that there were many Michael Carrolls who came to Australia. However, she
did have a look on the 1828-1842 Shipping Index to N.S.W. (not complete) and
there were a few, but the only one anywhere near to our Michael was:
Michael Carrol, unmarried. Farm Labourer. Roman Catholic. 22 years. Can
read and write. Native Place: Charleville, Co. Cork. Father - Eugene
Carrol; Mother - Honora Pucel (deceased). Arrived "Lascar" on 11 Nov. 1841.
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In the book, PIONEER PAGEANT, A History of the Pioneer Shire, held by
Queensland Cane Growers' Counsil Library, written by John Kerr, and put out
by the Pioneer Shire Council, Mackay, 1980, Michael Carroll and Miclere are
mentioned numerous times on the following pages: 47, 48,49, 69, 73, & 77
(where his date of death is given).
Thank you,
Gerry L. Schipper
glynnes(a)bigfoot.com or glynnes(a)aol.com