Elizabeth "Lizzie" Carroll was baptized as Bess Carroll 1 September 1868 in Dromintee Catholic Parish, Armagh, the daughter of Owen Carroll and Anne Quinn. The civil birth record shows they lived in Carrickastickan Townland, Forkhill Civil Parish.
On March 3, 1908, the Armagh Guardian reported that Lizzie Carroll had been arrested for abandoning a child with a woman on Banbrook, town of Armagh. The September 28, 1908, Ulster Gazette reported her sentencing to one month's imprisonment for doing so.
Lizzie disappears after that and was said to have "gone to America."
I know these two Lizzies are the same person because the person I am helping is the grandson of the child who was abandoned. He has a second cousin DNA match with a grandson of Lizzies's brother Bernard. That man does not know what happened to Lizzie.
We are not looking for information regarding the child. We have everything we need there and would like to keep his name out of this thread. We have his birth, workhouse record, the name of the woman he was put in care of, and his 1911 census with the woman's family. If you find anything else about him that would help us find Lizzie, please PM me instead of posting it here.
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What we know so far that might help: Lizzie's father Owen died 25 December 1882, her mother on 8 April 1888, both in Carrickastickan. Her older brother Bernard took over the farm and remained there until his death in 1946. Lizzie had 3 other siblings:
Catherine Carroll, born 20 April 1872 and died 31 March 1886, both in Carrickastickan.
Patrick Carroll, born 7 March 1864, Carrickastickan. He was the informant when his sister Catherine died and is not found after that. I didn't find him anywhee on the 1901 Census of Ireland or on the civil marriage or death records up to 1922.
Anne Carroll, born 29 May 1866, Carrickastickan. Similar story. I didn't find her on the 1901 or 1911 censuses of Ireland or the civil marriage or death records up to 1922.
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I looked for her as Bess, Lizzie, Elizabeth, and Eliza Carroll on the 1910 Census of the US, and the 1911 censuses of England, Wales, Scotland, and Canada. There are four possible matches in Scotland in 1911 but I am holding off looking for them since scotlandspeople is a paid site. Scotland was never mentioned as a place Lizzie went and I haven't found any connection between Scotland and this family.
I've also looked on the UK outgoing passenger list at ancestry, and the US immigration passenger manifests.
I haven't looked on any Australian records, since I am not familiar with them at all. But I don't see a reason why she would go that far.
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She is very likely not this person:
1911 Residents of a house 16 in Aghayalloge (Killevy, Armagh)
Lizzie Carroll, 35, head, domestic servant, single
Francis Carroll, 8, son, scholar
both Roman Catholic, both born in Armagh
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Armagh/Killevy/Aghayalloge/304244/Her age is off by 8 years and there is no mention of an older child at her trial.
That woman could be:
Elizabeth Carroll, baptism 5 December 1875, Ballymacnab, Armagh, daughter of James Carroll and Catherine McKenna
https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/6838420:61039?tid=&pid=&queryId=81a148c418606c9d2fcb746d4bd02e12&_phsrc=bPE21&_phstart=successSourceCivil Registration, 23 December 1875, Ennislare, father a farmer
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1875/03083/2129934.pdf-------
I really don't think she is either of these two women on the 1910 US Census.
Lizzie Carroll, a nun in Omaha, Nebraska, qualified at the time to be a teacher. Lizzie was a domestic servant when arrested.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ML44-J81Elizabeth Carroll, age 42, in 1910 in Manhattan and says she arrived at age 2
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M5WG-R44----------
She is not the Lizzie Carroll who arrived in Vancouver in 1918. That woman was born in Co. Antrim, had last lived in New Zealand, and had been in California in 1903.
She is not the woman who arrived in New York in 1909 and 1918 who was with the Salvation Army. On the 1910 of Manhattan, NYC, she said she arrived in 1887. The Carrolls were Catholic.
Thank you for reading this far and for your help.
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