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Surnames: CARVIN
Classification: Query
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Message Board Post:
this is in response to something that came on the mailing list, but didn't get posted
here. [I hope Susan will re-post the interesting New Jersey line question on this board.]
It is quite possible the CARVINS came "from" Ireland, but were originally from
Scotland, a hundred years earlier.
"Scotch-Irish: This unusual term refers to those Presbyterian Scots who settled in
Ulster (modern-day Northern Ireland) during the seventeenth century. From these 200,000
original settlers, up to 2 million of their descendants eventually reached North America.
"The Scotch-Irish left Ulster as a result of neo-mercantilist British economic policy
in the region, requirements that they pay 10% of their income to the Anglican Church,
ongoing friction with their Catholic Irish neighbors, and greater economic opportunity in
the New World. Although the Scotch-Irish settled throughout the colonies, they
concentrated most heavily in Pennsylvania."
A google search for "scotch-irish" +pennsylvania [or new jersey] will bring up
lots of information and sources.
I saw this explanation about them becoming Baptists: [at
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mcclell2/homepage/migrate.htm]
"Children and grandchildren of the original Scotch-Irish settlers in America were
always among the leaders in the move to the new West; but they were no longer Scotch-Irish
in their social characteristics and outlook. Just as they were likely to become Methodists
and Baptists instead of remaining Presbyterians, so they were likely to marry persons
whose background may have been English or German."
For those without the 1880 census CD collection, the LDS Church is offering the 1880 &
1881 census indices [US and Canada] for free online searching this month at
http://www.familysearch.org . There were only 350 CARVIN [various spellings] in USA in
1880, in 32 states.