[or-roots] Name coincidences

[Paulette]

I'm sorry to intrude, but I wonder if your Howells are from North Carolina? Rowan and/or Ashe County by any chance?

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Harguess, Dale" <dharguess at coastline.edu>
>Sent: Jun 10, 2009 1:01 PM
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>Subject: Re: [or-roots] Name coincidences
>
>Yes, I know what you mean.  My Howells are so hard to trace and I
>actually have them on both sides of my family and don't know if they
>were connected way back in the 1700's or not.  It is a very common name
>in Oregon, partly because my branch were very prolific and had a lot of
>twins.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
>[mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Leslie
>Chapman
>Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:11 AM
>To: or-roots mail list
>Subject: [or-roots] Name coincidences
>
>Dale;
>
>I thought it kinda that way since I don't recall noticing Carrol(l) as a
>particularly common name and since the population of Oregon in 1850
>wasn't
>so huge as to generate every imaginable surname by accident. Some of
>them do
>seem awfully common though. We had a friend her in Reedsport that was a
>Foster descendant and she asked me to look into her ancestry, but at the
>time I was pretty green and didn't get far, but in browsing 1850
>Clackamas
>Co to find a Dunn to check out for Paul Christian I stumbled across
>about
>five families of Fosters. Knowing they probably are no kin of my Foster
>ancestors just somehow makes that a little discouraging.
>
>Les C
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
>[mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us]On Behalf Of
>Harguess,
>Dale
>Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 8:46 AM
>To: or-roots mail list
>Subject: Re: [or-roots] Carrol / Lewelling
>
>
>Interesting......
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
>[mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Leslie
>Chapman
>Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 7:10 PM
>To: or-roots mail list
>Subject: [or-roots] Carrol / Lewelling
>
>Dale;
>
>in 1850  >  OREGON   >  CLACKAMAS  >  MILWAUKIE
>Series: M432  Roll: 742  Page: 16
>
>there is a William Carrol age 32 Carpenter with $1000 real esteate b.
>Ohio
>and Samuel age 26 Farmer, $1500 also OH.
>
>on the page before there are a whole bunch of Lewellings; Henderson 42
>gardener $10,000 real estate b NC  Wife Elizabeth age 33 and a whole
>bunch
>of Kids, I don't remember who was talking about them a few days ago, but
>thought I would throw that in here.
>
>Les C
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Harguess, Dale
>Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 3:00 PM
>
>Interesting.  I have only begun to do research on the Carroll family and
>it isn't easy because anything that I might find would be before the
>1850 census.  My great great grandfather's mother was a Hettie Carroll,
>I don't know if that was a nickname for Henrietta or Harriet but I
>assume it was a nickname.  She was married and died in Illinois.  Her
>son ended up in Hardman Oregon and in fact is buried there.
>Dale
>
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