Sarah (Bell) Carroll (abt. 1720 - abt. 1780)

Born about 1720 in Trummery, County Antrim, Ireland

Wife of Edward Carroll — married 1738 in Ballinderry, County Antrim, Ireland

Descendants

Died about 1780 at about age 60 in Creenagh, Magheramesk Parish, Barony of Mascareene, County Antrim, Ireland [uncertain]

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Sarah was a Friend (Quaker)

Sarah (Bell) Carroll was born in Ireland.

Biography

Sarah Bell was probably born about 1720 - 1725 in Trummery, Antrim, (Northern) Ireland, where 2 branches of the Bell family attended Quaker meetings. The Visitations of Ireland by Arthur Crisp, 1896, give her father as Archibald Bell and her mother simply as Jane. However, they were clearly not the well researched Archibald Bell and Ann Purvis who arrived in County Armagh in 1655 and became Quakers in 1657. Archibald Bell with a wife named Jane was already an old man by 1707, by all accounts, so could not have fathered Sarah in the 1720's. Family records suggest that Sarah had a brother Joshua and a brother John. Sarah was a Quaker, and as did the

A letter, held in the O'Carroll family collection, written by Sarah's great grandson Robert Carroll in Cincinnatti, Ohio to another great grandson, Joseph Hatton Carroll in Cork on 17 May 1893, stated: As to the Bells.....references, I think I have some somewhere, but I cannot put my hands on them. Some papers indicating that the Bells originate in Scotland (Dumphrieshire probably, if there be such a county). Thence went to Cumberland and thence to Ireland. From the extract from Mrs Edminston's [?] journal which I enclose, it appears that Archibald Bell, whose wife's name was Jane, was an old and feeble man in 1707; so that it is not likely that Sarah Bell, who married Edward Carroll twenty one years later (1738) [1728?] was his daughter. From a paper I have from Thomas Greer, it appears that Elizabeth Bell, daughter of Archibald and Jane Bell married one Thos Greer; the date of the wedding is not given, but the fourth child Sarah Greer, in 1746 married another Thos Greer so that it is fair to assume that this Sarah Greer, a granddaughter of Archibald Bell, was born certainly as early as 1726 and her mother, the daughter of Archibald Bell, as early as 1700, probably earlier. Sarah Bell, who married Edward Carroll in 1738 may be assume to have been born as early as 1720 and so to have been a co-temporary of her cousin Sarah Greer, but too late to have been the daughter of Archibald Bell who also was old and feeble in 1707. What was her father's name I have not found out but I presume he was one of the three who Isaac Bell says came from Cumberland; two settling in Trummery (Trumera) and one at Lurgan. It is possible Archibald may have been one of these brothers the oldest of the three- and the other one that settled in Trummery may have been the father of Sarah Bell. But it looks more plausible that the old man should have been the father of the three brothers who came to Ireland. We may find out some day.

Sarah married Edward Carroll in the Ballinderry meeting in 1738 when she was likely between 16 and 22 years of age. Edward built a 2 storey stone house in Creenagh, on the old turnpike Rd (Halfpenny Gate Rd) and they had 10 children.^{[1] [2]} Edward was Presbyterian but became a Quaker in middle age.

Also from the letter written by Robert Carroll of Cincinnatti , Ohio to Joseph Hatton Carroll in Cork, in 1883: From Uncle Edward's memorandum I can give you the names of the children of Edward Carroll and Sarah Bell, our great grand-parents as follows: 1st. Thomas- who died at about the age of 21- but after he had become a minister among Friends. 2nd John- who went to Cork and left children; Samuel, who died young, Joshua and Thomas. 3rd Edward- who came to America in 1801 and brought a large family. All of his children were born in Ireland except a daughter Ann. 4th William- who married Ellen Morrow and had three daughters. 5th Isaac Carroll, who went to Cork, and had three sons Edward, James and Joseph and possibly two or three daughters. 6th Elizabeth- who married Jared Davis and had children, Thomas, John and Deborah. 7th Isabella- who married Robert Williams- no children. 8th Deborah- who married Wm English and had children Thomas, John Isaac Wm, Isaac, Lucy, Belle, Deborah and Abby. 9th Sarah- who married Richard Bell and had children Isaac, Richard, Edward, Fanny, Dorcas and Deborah. 10th Nancy- who married Sam Johnston, and had children, John, Wm, Saul? Ann, Sarah, Lucy and Deborah.

Sarah was widowed n 1770. She was alive when her son John was married in 1775 and she is thought to have died approximately 1780.^[3] Her son Edward inherited the lease on the property, his 3 brothers all having moved to Cork. He lived there for another 20 years before migrating to America with his wife and 8 children.

Research Notes

A genealogical history of the Bell family of Trummery^[4] presents evidence that Archibald Bell is the grandfather of Sarah, not the father. Instead, the father is Richard Bell, born 1657. I have more notes about this, but it is late and I must stop now.

Sources

1. ↑ “Litterluna O’Carrolls,” http://carrollfamily.accessgenealogy.com/literluna.html.
2. ↑ Family tree and notes authored by Colin R O'Carroll, 1997, Johannesburg, South Africa, held in family collection.
3. ↑ Hand drawn tree held in collection of O'Carroll family
4. ↑ Bill Jackson, Ringing True: The Bells of Trummery and Beyond, York: William Sessions Ltd, 2005, p 8, 9, 24.

• Source: S208 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; Repository: #R2
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• https://www.ancestry.com.au/family-tree/person/tree/91028830/person/280083232690/facts
• Family tree and notes authored by Colin R O'Carroll, 1997, Johannesburg, South Africa, held in O'Carroll family collection.
• Family letters held in O'Carroll family collection by DS O'Carroll, UK and SJ O'Carroll, Australia.
• Esther Coy letter 12 Dec 1987, held in O'Carroll and Carroll family collections.