In drawing up the family history of the Carroll family I was able to review the work of my great grandfather John Thomas Carroll and his grandson Colin O’Carroll (then living in South Africa. I inherited a red covered folder which contained the correspondence from Edward Carroll in Cincinnati, who set out in some detail the traditions of how the Carrolls from Antrim emigrated to Ohio. My transcription of these letters are on this website.
David O’Carroll. May 2025.
Transcriptions of the letters from Edward Carroll of Cincinnati:
October 1878 The Carrolls saw to New York. Courteney Piatt visits Carrolls in Cork. Children of Edward Carroll.
December 1882 The house in Trummery. Quaker links. Battle of the Boyne. Col. Thomas Carroll.
March 1883 Ohio River floods. Children of Edward Carroll & Sarah née Bell.
May 1893 Bell & Greer family links.
July 1893 The Carrolls sell the farm in Antrim in 1800. Information on the Bell family in Ireland.
Transcription of a letter by Abbie Whinnery a Carroll descendant:
Belfast, July 13 1884. I know that you will be glad to learn that we have found the old homestead….
Published sources
D’Alton, John. King James’ Irish Army List. 1855
Harrison, Richard S. A Biographical Dictionary of Irish Quakers, 2nd edition,
Harrison, Richard S. The Carroll Family: A Cork Quaker Business Dynasty. The Journal of the Friends’ Historical Society Vol 57, Number 1. 1994.
Hoffman, Ronald. Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland.The University of North Carolina Press. 2000.
Howard, Joseph J & Crisp, Frederick. A Visitation of Ireland. Privately printed, 1898.
O’Hart, John. Irish Pedigrees or The origin and stem of the Irish nation. P.Murphy & Son, New York, 1915. [Limited American edition.]
Randolph, Clarence Coulson. Family History. The Review Publishing Co. Alliance, Ohio. 1908.
The Whinnery family links. The generations descending from the Carrolls of Litterluna.
Carroll Family History 