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This is a new first name to me, "Carann". As a hobby I locate and document lost/abandoned/neglected cemeteries and single graves. Last week I documented a lone family obelisk monument and one of the names on it was "Carann Wesbrook". So, has anyone heard the name "Carann" before? And if so, is it pronounced "Car-ann" or "Karen" or --? Just wondering.
Are the parents nearby? Sometimes parents combine names for the kid. Carson and Ann becomes Carann.
My old bosses parents did that -- they combined their names .
They did it on a soap opera once, with the grandmothers names -- Martha and Sarah combined to become Mara. Hubby and I thought that was a great idea, but what we had to work with wasn't....
We never had kids -- but try combining Geraldine and Norma. Hubby came up with Germa Normaldine. I almost wrecked the car when he said that one!
This appears to be a monument in a family burial site but there are no tomb stones or grave depressions. Carann is on one side of the obelisk and another name on the other. Near the obelisk are three foot stone size stones flush with the ground surface and one is engraved "H.W.", one "infant" and the third is not engraved. After the first of the year I'll try to find if there is any history.
You could try census records or death records. In the census I've seen the same person's name spelled many different ways (sometimes people go by middle names as well).
Carann could be a combination of names. Carson or Carroll and Ann or Mary Ann. It's hard to say. If you have access to death or census records try checking those. I know you don't have much to go on. I would say it's probably pronounced "karen" but it's hard to know. It may just be my opinion, but I've observed that most of the stranger names for my families tend to be in the more rural, southernish areas. I'm not sure if they just liked uniqueness, or (like many of my ancestors) they didn't exactly know how to spell their own names. Sometimes the census takers or tombstone engravers get it wrong. You could just try to search for Westbrooks in that county at around the time you think it might have been.
https://beta.familysearch.org/ is not always 100% accurate (from what I have heard), but if you can find Carann Westbrook or a similar Westbrook there, you might get a lead.
United States Census, 1900
birth: May 1865 — N Carolina
residence: Philadelphia city, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
parents: Henrietta Morris
Carann Peak
South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1943
birth: 1864 — Chester County
death: 18 Jun 1926 — Boginvill, Union, South Carolina
parents: Elic Wyett, Canzatie Rice
Carann Tuck
North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994
birth: May 1868 — Granville County
death: 08 Oct 1943 — Wake Forest, Wake, North Carolina
residence: Wake Forest, Wake, NC
parents: Frances ...Ulby
Carann Harris
United States Census, 1920
birth: 1869 — Illinois
residence: Crab Orchard, Williamson, Illinois
Carann Madock
United States Census, 1900
birth: Mar 1870 — Missouri
residence: DeSoto city, Jefferson, Missouri
Carann C. Crawford
United States Census, 1880
birth: 1872 — Ohio, United States
residence: Millersburg, Holmes, Ohio
parents: John Crawford, Henrietta Crawford
Carann Green
United States Census, 1920
birth: 1875 — Texas
residence: , Jackson, Texas
parents: Ruth Rowland
Carann Sikes
United States Census, 1880
birth: 1854 — North Carolina, United States
residence: Gum Neck, Tyrrell, North Carolina
spouse: John Sikes
Carann C Ross
United States Census, 1910
birth: 1853 — Tennessee
residence: York, Lonoke, Arkansas
Carann Blackewell
United States Census, 1880
birth: 1844 — Indiana, United States
residence: Center, Marion, Indiana
spouse: William Blackewell
Last edited by Cyanna; 12-27-2010 at 09:47 AM..
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Thanks all, and especially CYANNA who shows this isn't as unusual as I thought. This work I'm doing is not for genealogy but to document the graves and cemeteries and get them into the data base at the Arkansas Archeological Survey to make sure they are not "lost" again. Some times I run into a name or situation which gets my attention and I do a little research, but not as in the family genealogy I do.
Thanks all, and especially CYANNA who shows this isn't as unusual as I thought. This work I'm doing is not for genealogy but to document the graves and cemeteries and get them into the data base at the Arkansas Archeological Survey to make sure they are not "lost" again. Some times I run into a name or situation which gets my attention and I do a little research, but not as in the family genealogy I do.
You're welcome, Slim From what I could find on this particular Carann, which was nothing other than a listing at Find-A-Grave, I've come to the assumption that she died as an infant, and was born after the 1880 census. She doesn't show up as a living person in ANY state. I've seen mention of a few W.H. Westbrooks, one of whom was in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. I believe I did come across one in Haskell, Arkansas, who in 1880 was 60 years old, so possibly a grandfather to your Carann. It also seems that many on this family moved to Texas.
You're welcome, Slim From what I could find on this particular Carann, which was nothing other than a listing at Find-A-Grave, I've come to the assumption that she died as an infant, and was born after the 1880 census. She doesn't show up as a living person in ANY state. I've seen mention of a few W.H. Westbrooks, one of whom was in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. I believe I did come across one in Haskell, Arkansas, who in 1880 was 60 years old, so possibly a grandfather to your Carann. It also seems that many on this family moved to Texas.
Here is the monument, and Haskell is only a few miles from it. Harvy is on the west side and Carann on the east.
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From what I could find on this particular Carann, which was nothing other than a listing at Find-A-Grave, I've come to the assumption that she died as an infant, and was born after the 1880 census. She doesn't show up as a living person in ANY state. I've seen mention of a few W.H. Westbrooks, one of whom was in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. I believe I did come across one in Haskell, Arkansas, who in 1880 was 60 years old, so possibly a grandfather to your Carann. It also seems that many on this family moved to Texas.
