1841, d. 16th Feb'y 1842,-James Carroll, b. 20th April 1843, d. 24th Jan'y 1846,-Mary Ludlow Carroll, Sophia Gough Carroll,-Harry Dorsey Gough Carroll,-and Catharine Ludlow Carroll.

CHARLES RIDGELY CARROLL, son of James Carroll and Sophia Gough, m. 21st Nov. 1823, Rebecca Anne Pue, dau. of Dr. Arthur Pue, and had two sons and six daus., viz., James Carroll,-Charles Arthur Carroll, who m. 13th July 1871, Sallie H. White,-Rebecca Carroll, who m. Hon. Carroll Spence, Sophia Gough Carroll, who m. 5th Feb'y 1852, George B. Milligan,-Susan Carroll, who m. 26th Dec. 1850, Thomas Poultney,-Achsah Ridgely, who m. 1st Nov. 1855, William Shippen, of Philadelphia,-Mary Carroll (now d.), who m. Robert M. Denison,-and Gough Carroll, who m. in 1871, Edwin Schenck.

The following notes are carefully extracted from papers and documents in possession of the Carroll family:

"The Sept of O'Carroll was early established in Lowth, being then popularly styled Princes of Orgeil. Previous to the English invasion, immediately after the great Synod of Mellifont in 1152, is recorded the expulsion of their chief from that country, of which he had been the acknowledged lord, from Drogheda to Asigh in the County of Meath. These annalists, however, notice O'Carrolls as Chiefs of Orgeil and Ely O'Carroll down to the year 1193; and it is especially recorded that when in 1166, on the eve of Strongbow's invasion of Ireland, Roderic O'Connor, then king of this country, seeking to ascertain the feeling of allegiance towards himself, encamped with an army hereabout, Daniel Carroll, with the other chiefs of Lowth, came into his tent, delivered hostages for their fealty, and received in return, as related in the Annals of Innisfallen, 'a present of two hundred and forty beeves.'

"The O'Carrolls were, at that time and previously, settled in a territory of Tipperary, from them called Ely-O'Carroll. The death of Amergin Carroll, Lord of Ely, is recorded in 1033. This inheritance comprised the present Barony of Lower Ormond, with that of Clonlisk and part of Ballibritt in the King's County, and to the Sleive Bloom Mountains in the Queen's. The name was one of power and possession in the Counties of Cavan and Leitrim (vide Annals of Innisfallen, and King James' Army List; Funeral Entries Dublin Castle). "In 1168 died John Carroll, Bishop of Ross.

"In 1171 Charles Carroll, Lord of Orgeil, joined Roderick O'Connor, the last native King of Ireland, in the ineffective siege of Dublin, then occupied by the English. In 1178 he made a gallant and successful attack upon De Courcy, and, dying in 1189, was interred in the Abbey which he had founded for Cistercians at Mellifont.

"In 1327 John Carroll became Archbishop of Cashel. "Thomas Carroll became Bishop of Tuam, 1349.

"Fergan Carroll surrendered his possessions (1615) to Edward the Sixth, who restored them to him on English tenure, with the addition of the dignity of Baron. (See Sir Bernard Burke, and vide Records of Parliament.)

"Perrot's Parliament of 1585 was attended by Lord Carroll of Ely (vide Records of Parliament.)

"In the Office of Arms of Dublin is recorded the death of Sir Wm. Carroll, August 15th, 1630 (vide Office of Arms).

"Amongst the active measures concerted by James I for reducing Ireland, a commission was appointed for ascertaining the bounds and limits of O'Carroll's County, commonly called Ely O'Carroll.' (See Surveyor General's Office, 1641.)

"On 11th of April, 1691, 1,500 men, commanded by General Carroll, came to Inniskean, with a design to have that place as a step further upon our frontiers. (Vide Story's History.)

"The attainders of 1691 included those of John Carroll of King's County, John Carroll (who is buried in the churchyard of Dunkerron, near Roscrea), and John Carroll of the County Sligo also Eugene Carroll of the Queen's County. (Vide Attainders 1691.)

"1549. Carroll submitted to Lord Justice Brabazon, agreed to find foot and horse, surrendered Ely O'Carroll, and had it regranted and was created Baron of Ely. (Vide Betham MSS. vol. iv. p. 287. Also Burke.)

"1460. The counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary paid Carroll for peace. (Betham MSS. and Sir Bernard Burke, vol. iv. p. 166.)

"1540. One of the accusations against Lord Deputy Grey was that he took O'Carroll's castle from a loyal Carroll. (Betham MSS. p. 264.)

"O'Carroll, Prince of Ely, was taken prisoner by James, 3d Earl of Ormond, 1399, but made his escape 1400.

"Ellen, only dau. of Pierce Butler, eldest son of Sir Edmund Butler of Roscrea, whose younger brother, John of Kilcash, was father to Walter, 11th Earl of Ormond, was wife

of John Carroll, chief of his name: she d. in 1620. (Vide Betham MSS. vol. ii, p. 20.)

"In 1532 Carroll, Prince of Ely, m. a dau. of Gerald, ninth Earl of Kildare, and was loyal to Henry ye 8th. (Betham MSS. vol. i., p. 33.)

"1548. O'Carroll took the Castle of Nenagh, demolished it and drove the English out. (See Sir Bernard Burke.)

"Leim-Ui-Bhanain, now the Leap Castle, the seat of H. Darby, Esq., in the King's County, about five miles to the north of Roscrea (vide O'Donovan, LL. D., M. R. I. A). This castle bears its name to the present day-Ely O'Carroll (Hist. of O'Donovan). Leim-Ui-Bhanain, now the Castle of the Leap' in Ely O'Carroll near Roscrea. This fine old castle now forms a part of the residence of H. Darby, Esq. It occupies a high bank immediately under the Hill of Throch, and commands a splendid view of the lofty acclivities of the mountains of Sliath Bladhma, the ancient bulwark of the Carrolls (vide Ware's Annals), 'Clonlisk,' giving name to a barony in the south of the King's County.

"In a manuscript missal, preserved in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, Class B., Tab. 3, No. 1, there is recorded the death of Carroll, as follows: Hic obiit vir sine nomine [Fergananinini (that is without a name) O'Carroll] qui fuit dominus et princeps Elie occissus in Castro suo proprio in Clurintis morte incognita, et nisi predicitur improvisa, et qui fuit magne sapientia et mirabilis fortitudinis; cujus anime propitietur Deus. Amen. In anno Domini millessimo cccccxli.

"The present chief of this family is unknown, but the grandfather of the Marchioness of Wellesley was a representative (vide Annals Four Masters, note, vol. v., p. 1835). Charles Carroll (barrister) was the chief of the Carroll family. "It is stated a barony was granted to Carroll as Baron of Ely O'Carroll in 1552 (vide Sir Bernard Burke's Extinct Peerages, p. 407).

"Carroll was originally chief of all the tract of country now divided into the baronies of Clonlisk and Ballibritt, in the King's County, and of the adjoining barony of Ikerrin in the county of Tipperary, but for many centuries his county was considered as co-extensive with the two baronies in the King's County above mentioned. O'Carroll's strongest castle was Leim-Ui-Bhanain, now the Castle of the Leap.

"Sir Charles O'Carroll, in a letter to the Lord Deputy, written in 1595, preserved in the Library at Lambeth Palace, complains that the Right Honorable the Earl of Ormund had