Hello,
Below is a letter I sent to the Carruth ListBot e-mail list that I thought someone may
find some information useful from. The past few letters I've sent have had
interesting little additions added after they left me like the following: ’
For some reason these were added where an apostrophe or parenthesis would otherwise be,
replacing them. Sorry!
Archive for Carruth Family E-Mail List: Message #435
Date: Oct 17 1999 11:38:22 EDT
From: HARVEY33(a)aol.com
Subject: New Information found online relating to the Carruth Family
Hello Carruth Cousins and fellow researchers,
You can now view the book listed below ("Genealogy of the James Carruth Family"
discussed earlier in letters sent to the e-mail list) at the Family Tree Maker Genealogy
Library. You can join by the month for 10 dollars or you can have an annual subscription
for more. The James Carruth Family discussed here are descendants of John Carruth who
settled in Massachusetts about the same time as Walter, Adam, and Alexander Carruth
settled in Pennsylvania (about 1730). Both family groups came from Ireland.
Also found among the many books and records found in this online library are the genealogy
books recording Elizabeth Carruth McCormick (sister of Adam, Walter, and Alexander--this
book records her as being Adam's daughter and Walter's sister) and her family.
A third book found in the library records the family of Reynold Cahoon. His wife Margaret
Carruth Cahoon's recorded family history is included in this book dating back to her
birth on the family farm in Birkenhead, Scotland. Harold B. Carruth recorded on page 221
of his book "Carruth Family" that "Birkenhead farm contains about one
hundred acres and lies on the south side of Gryffe Water in the united parishes of Houston
and Killellan." See a map showing the location for this farm found below the Gryffe
River and close to
Houston at the following internet address:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?X=240800&Y=666600&a...
I've copied a little bit of what is found in each of these books below.
Best Wishes,
Harvey Carrouth
<<<
Genealogy of the James Carruth Family
Author: Arthur J. Carruth
Call Number: CS71.C32
This is a record of the descendants of James Carruth of Phillipston. The book includes
interesting accounts for about 700 individuals of the Carruth Family.
Bibliographic Information: Carruth, Arthur J. Genealogy of the Carruth Family. Crane &
Company, Topeka 1926.
>>
<<<
III. THOMAS MCCORMICK,2 (James,1) b. about 1702, in the Province of Ulster, Ireland; d.
about 1762, in East Pennsboro' township, Cumberland county, Penn'a. He accompanied
his brother Hugh to America, in 1735. In 1745 he and his wife each took out a warrant for
one hundred acres of land in Hanover township, then Lancaster county, Penn'a. About
that time, or shortly after, he removed with his family west of the Susquehanna, locating
in East Pennsboro' township, Cumberland county, Penn'a. He married in Ireland
about
1726, ELIZABETH CARRUTH, b. about 1705 in Ireland; d. January, 1767, in East
Pennsboro' township, Cumberland county, Penn'a. She was the daughter of Adam
Carruth, and sister of Walter
>>
<<<
WILLIAM CARRUTH AND MARY BARR OF SCOTLAND
"Mary Barr Carruth was the mother of nine children.
I, Margaret Cahoon, being the youngest child. William Carruth, my father, died of blood
poison six weeks before my birth, leaving my mother a widow with four living children. I,
when born, making the fifth, they having buried four children before my father's
death.
"Father and mother were of the hardy stock of Scotch farmers, and as farmers did
in those days, they knew the art of self-preservation and maintenance, raising practically
everything in food and producing their own clothing from the farm. Samples of Scotch linen
produced from the farm 107 over one hundred years ago are still in our family,
souvenirs"
Page 68
"of their handiwork. Grandmother on my Mother's side was a Stewart, a descendant
of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, and father was from the hardy Scotch farmer
class."
Page 69
>>
<<<
Three brothers, Robert, William and John Carruth emigrated from Loanhead, Renfrewshire,
Scotland to New Zealand in 1839. Robert died in South Australia, William died in Ramo, New
Zealand and John died near Auckland, New Zealand. William was one of the oldest colonists
of the Whangarei district. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church and one of its most
liberal supporters. These brothers were relatives of the Carruth-Cahoon sisters and the
Carruth Utah pioneers.
>>
<<<
We may be sure that these three Carruth sisters enter into a most serious discussion;
their answer is in the affirmative. All doubt has swept from the minds of Mary, Margaret
and Janet as together their voices echo a perfect understanding, and as the day emerges
into dusk, Margaret records:
"On the evening of July 17th, 1848, on the banks of the Platte River in Nebraska
Territory, Andrew Cahoon married as his second wife, Margaret Carruth in Celestial
Covenant and his third wife, Janet Carruth Young for 'Time' only. These marriages
were performed by Brigham Young."
>>