Hello, I've been researching Carty in Ireland (Wexford). The line that I was researching may have ended up in the USA far earlier than the 1740s. I did masses of research from 1996 until about 2004, when I had to stop due to time and health restrictions. I intend to take up the research again when I become a senior citizen in July.
Two great-great-grandsons of one Denis Carty from the Wexford family that I was researching went to Baltimore in the mid-19th century, possibly to reconnect with their Carty relative (hoping to get some share in land or property). A Denis Carty appears in ship's passenger lists in 1677 and sailed from Waterford to Maryland (closest port to Wexford for USA migration at the time). The direct descendant of one of those 19th century Cartys (who has recently died in the USA) lost was unable to pick up the family line in the USA but had one very important piece of family evidence: she had inherited an 18th century marriage settlement which clarified that her Carty ancestor was one Denis, owner of a farm named Birchgrove near Bree, Co Wexford.
When I resume research I hope to work on this Maryland connection to see if anything will come of it.
When I was in the USA in 2010, I went to Salt Lake City to search for Carty family information, found nothing about the Birchgrove-Baltimore connection, but came across the story of one David James Carty who was enlisted as a soldier in the USA prior to the 1770s and who died between 1832 and 1840 in Russell County, Virginia. (I have the full transcript deposited by one Thomas Carty in 2001.)
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