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CARLOW Family of early NJ and NY

By Susan Tilleman April 12, 2006 at 11:34:27
  • In reply to: CARLOW Family of Bergen Co., NJ, area
    Susan Tilleman 4/12/06

I am attempting to find a connection between the early CARLOW family of the Bergen Co., New Jersey, area and the early GERLACH/CARLOCK family from this same area.I would also like to know whether these early CARLOWs continued using the spelling “CARLOW” or this was just a phonetic spelling for another surname such as “CARLOUGH.”See the following sites for previous postings by other researchers regarding early CARLOWs from Bergen Co., New Jersey, and nearby counties in New York:

http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/rw/surnames.carlough/2.4.10.30.31.33.34.36http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/rw/surnames.carlough/2.4.10.30.31.33.34.36
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/rw/surnames.carlough/128http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/rw/surnames.carlough/128
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/QUACKENBUSH/1999-09/0938387608http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/QUACKENBUSH/1999-09/0938387608
http://www.hopefarm.com/ulstnew1.htmhttp://www.hopefarm.com/ulstnew1.htm

I have also found the following references to the surname CARLOW in the book “History of the Carlock Family,” by Marion Pomeroy CARLOCK, 1929.My copy of this book is not indexed, so there may be additional references which I have missed.

p. 49:
“In the early eighteenth century, few people could write; the dictionary had not come into common use, and words were spelled phonetically by town clerks, government officials, ministers and others, in setting down records.This resulted in a very wide variation in spelling, especially with family surnames.Therefore we have found the name 'Carlock' in other forms of spelling, including:Gerlag, Gerlaug, Gerlach, Gerloch, Gerlach, Garlock, Carle, Carley, Carlow, Carlough, Cerlough, Karlack, Kerlock, Kirloch, etc.”

p. 65:[Bergen Co., NJ, marriage records]
“PETER MASSAKER to MARGARET CARLOW………Oct. 15, 1825
By Zach H. Kuypers”

p. 78:
“WASHINGTON COUNTY, N. Y. 1800
JACOB CARLOW, age bet. 26-45 yrs., wife bet. 26-45 yrs., 1 male under 10, 1 male bet. 16-26, 2 females under 10.”

Susan Cearlock Tilleman (Stilleman@satx.rr.com)
List Administrator for the RootsWeb CARLOCK and CARLOUGH Lists
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/i/l/Susan-E-Tilleman/?Welcome=1046272098http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/i/l/Susan-E-Tilleman/?Welcome=1046272098

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