The similarity in our family histories has motivated me to reply to a
request written on 29 Sept. I just returned from Ireland and am just
catching up.
My immigrants are Thomas and Ann Meara Carroll of Lorrha Parish,
Tipperary County N.R., Lower Musnster, Parsonstown and Borisokane PLUs.
They also came to America in 1854 and had a Patrick who did not show up
on the New York City Census. The real motivator for my writing was the
fact that I found a Dunn buried along with the family in the cemetery
located at the Dominican Abbey in Lorrha. The tombstone is as follows:
Kind reader:
Departed this life 10 Apr 1793 age 18
Kind Angels watch this heaping dirt
"till Jesus comes to raise the dust.
Are you sure you are from Westmeath?
If any other Carrolls out there have any interest in the location above,
I'll be happy to share information.
Wilma Hillman, Cinti, OH USA