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The Carrico/Carico Connection

Generation No. 1

1. PETER (I)¹ CARRICOE was born Abt. 1675 in Normandy, France. He married MRS. FIRST CARRICOE Abt. 1690 in prob France.

Notes for PETER (I) CARRICOE:
Peter had 3 sons, Peter, Abel and ???, 1 daughter, Jane. They were
French Huguenots. This is family tradition. The names Abel and Peter
appear in MD records early in the 1700's. "The progenitors of the
Carrico family in America, according to tradition and such small amount
of documentary references as has been found, were Peter of Carrico Hope
in Bryantown Hundred, Charles Co., MD and Abel of Charles Co., and also
of Fairfax Co. Va. A tradition, stoutly asserted by some Carrico
descendants, is that an earlier Peter Carrico, father of Peter and Abel,
came to the Colonies under the auspices of the second Lord Baltimore.
Without doubt Peter and Abel were brothers, as their marriages in MD were
within a few years of each other. Although there has been no written
record found, tradition has it that the two brothers had a sister, Jane,
who married John Moore, a brother of the English poet Thomas Moore. From
whence the Carricos emigrated to the Colonies is shrouded in the mists of
the years. Every branch of the family has its tradition as to the
original homeland of the family, France, Italy, Spain, England and
Scotland have their proponents.
Those who favor Scotland has their claim upon a somewhat tortuous
evolution of the name from "McFearchar." It is feared that those who
claim Spain are guilty of an assumption based upon the Latin sound of the
name. Those who assert that France was the home of the family maintain
that many of "The Old Folks" spoke French fluently. This group claims
that the name was originally "Carriceau" or Carricoits" and that a Nun
named Carricoits attained sainthood in France. Those who claim Italy as
the old work home of the family have two unrelated incidents to reinforce
their tradition. The first was a letter
received by the author of this article (Homer E. Carrico) in 1930 from
Leander C. Carrico of Fort Smith,, ARK., who stated, "Our family has
always claimed that the family came from Northern Italy where there
was a village named 'Carrico',". The other incident occurred in the
later years of World War II when a man who described himself as a former
Italian prisoner-of-war, but whose status then was that of a
co-belligerent, telephoned Miss Stella Carrico in Louisville, KY and in
the course of the conversation stated that 'My mother's maiden name was
Carrico and she lived in a village named 'Carrico' in Northern Italy".
The Carrico name is found in nearly every state in the Union, and all or
most of the migration to the Central and Western states was through KY.
The name has a number of variations in spelling, the most usual from
being CARRICO, which is used throughout this article, other spellings
found have been: CARICO, CARICOE, CARRICOE, CARRACHO,CALICO, CALLICO and
CERICO. The Carricos were and are adherents of many religious sects -
Catholics, Methodists, Baptists, Pesbyterians, and Mormans have been
encountered. It is regrettable that so many blanks appear in the
genealogical data of the CARRICO family here presented." From Filson
Club Quarterly, Vol. 25 Pg. 218. Grantor _____1707 Charles Co., MD. From
Robert W. Barnes, "Maryland Genealogy Society Bulletin, Charles County
Depositions: From Charles County Land Records," serial unknown, Vol.
33-34, Vol 33 fall 1992 #4p 699. Carricoe, James age 70, 28 Sep 1763,
stated his father was Peter Carricoe, Charles County Land Records
p#3,59:614. Notes from Robert Alvey, Researcher & Descendent: "Traditions
have been handed down through the family "The first record found in
Maryland shows transportation of one Peter Carrico to Maryland 1657. This
Peter, possibly the father of the others, may have obtained a land grant
in Charles Co., MD and then returned to France for his family. The second
trip was made in their own ship called "La Voyage". It was manned by a
group of brothers, among them were a pair of twins Peter & Paul, believed
to have been the oldest and a sister Jane. They began a settlement in
Charles Co. at Bryantown, MD. Then they decided to return to France to
sell all property there, purchase stock and seed and equipment and
furnishings, also to bring members of the family who had remained at home
in France. Peter had married and begun a family, so he was left behind
to take care of the new
settlement. Possibly some of the other brothers left wives and family in
charge of Peter. The ship was loaded and they set sail again from a port
in France (it is claimed that they lived in France near the Spanish
border, maybe port of Bordeau, on the North or Marsailles on the South).
They did not make it to Maryland. They were shipwrecked and lost at sea
in a storm, or were captured and killed by pirates. Only Peter and his
family & possibly a wife & family of one or so of the brothers remained
from whom the Carrico family descends in the United States.

Peter had two sons Peter and Abel, from whom we can tract most of the
Carricos, but a few who we cannot connect, leading to the belief that
another brother may have left a wife & children. In France the name may
have been Carriceau, or if they lived near Spain, Basques accounting for
Spanish spelling Carrico. Tradition also says that a serious rift
between the brothers Peter & Abel due to religion. They were originally
a Catholic family and Peter & most of his descendents at least for the
first few generations remained Catholic. Abel married Elizabeth Sims, a
Huguenot, and moved with them to Fairfax Co., VA, where his family was
raised Protestant."

Children of PETER CARRICOE and MRS. CARRICOE are:

GERRARD² CARRICO.

Notes for GERRARD CARRICO:
_____, Charles County, MD, Land Records, 1722-1733 (PO Box 403369,
Miami Beach, FL 33140-1369: T.L.C. Genealogy, 1994), p.141. Liber
M#2,P.288. The Mark of Gerrard Carrico of CC was recorded Jun 22,
1732.

ii.

JANE CARRICO, b. Abt. 1690, prob France; m. M. JOHN MOORE, prob MD.

Notes for JANE CARRICO:
Came from France with her brothers. Not mentioned in her father's
will. Married M. John Moore, an English officer sent to America to
transact business with George Washington. He did not return to
England after the marriage. A Moore was a brother of Thomas Moore the
poet. Jane is said to have been killed by the Indians. All this is
tradition-No records found yet.

2.	iii.	PETER (II) CARRICOE, b. 1700, Prob. Normandy, France; d. October 18, 1765, Bryantown Hundred, Charles Co., MD.
3.	iv.	ABEL (I) CARRICO, b. Abt. 1705; d. 1790, prob MD.
4.	v.	JAMES CARRICOE, b. September 28, 1763, prob France.

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