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EDWARD

Edward was born in 1712 the grandson of Col Thomas O'Carroll who died at the Battle of the Boyne. He inherited the lease (dated 1729) of a farmstead in Trummery. He was married to Sarah Bell. He was a farmer and linen draper.

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JOHN CARROLL

John was born on the family homestead in Trummery on 6 May 1740. He left the farm as a young man and went to find work in Cork. He married Sarah Corfield on 17 May 1776. He was the elder brother of Edward Carroll who emigrated to USA in 1801. They had three children, Thomas, Samuel and Joshua.

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THOMAS CARROLL

Thomas was born in Cork on 10 August1784. He married Mary Hatton on 17 October 1816. They had four children: John, Sarah, Joseph and Joshuah.

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Joseph Hatton Carroll

Joseph was the son of Thomas Carroll and Mary Hatton. He maried Caroline Hatton in 1845. He died  on 21 December 1905 in Cork.

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JOHN THOMAS O'CARROLL

John Thomas was born [in Cork] in Ireland in 1852 and died in England in 1941. He was the son of Joseph Hatton Carroll and Caroline Hatton. He spent some time in France learning the language. He had three children by his first wife and two children by his second wife Mart, who was born in France. He founded the stockbroking firm of Carroll & Co in London.

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CLAUDE ST.JOHN O'CARROLL

Claude was born in Queenstown, Cork on 26 March 1880 and died in London on 15 April 1962 in London. He was baptised at Christ Church, Rushbrook on 22 April 1880. He was the son of John Thomas Carroll (later O'Carroll) and Annie Sophia Ferns.  He married Edith Bywater Bywater-Ward in Oxford on 19 April 1911. He met his future wife skiing in Switzerland. He was a keen oarsman rowing for Molesy.

Claude joined the army in 1916 in the Royal Dublin Fusileers. He fought in France and was gassed at Amiens. He then served in the Royal Army Pay Corps.

After the war he joined the Stock Exchange where he became senior partner in Carroll & Co. He retired in 1959.

He lived in Wimbledon for most of his married life first in Raymond Road and then in Drax Avenue where he had a house built in 1928. The garden was always well kept and was an interesting place for dogs and children to play in. He spent his last years in an apartment at the top of The Downs, Wimbledon.

Claude considered emigrating to Africa visiting Rhodesia and South Africa during 1947-48 Returned as his wife Edith did not like apartheid and missed the grandchildren.

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MICHAEL ST.JOHN O'CARROLL

Michael was born on 23 June 1914 in Oxford. He was the second born child. The first, Patrick, died as a baby. He first attended the Dragon School in Oxford and then Kings College School, Wimbledon. On leaving school he joined Whitehall Securities an electrical firm. He then became a stockbroker.

He was keen on amateur dramatics and kept a small motor boat on the Thames. He was a member of the RNVR before the war. He was called up at the start of the war and first served on HMS Royal Scot, a troop transport ship from 28 February 1940 to April 1940. The Royal Scot was later mined in the Bristol Channel and lost in 1940.  He then joined HMS Black Bear as a sub-Lieutenant on 15 May 1940 and sailed on her from England to the West Indies in November 1940, ending as a First Lieutenant. This boat had been owned by Pierpoint Morgan Jnr and given to the Government as a contribution to the war effort. The vessel served as a safety ship for the Fleet Air Arm training in the Carribean and anti-submarines. HMS Benbow  (RN base in Trinidad) from September 1945 to April 1946.

Whilst on active service he met his future wife, Clara Jocelyn Gall through the Christian Science Church. They married on 27 April 1943 in Bridgetown, Barbados and travelled to Britain via New York in 1946. They had two children Gillian (born Wimbledon 1948) and David (born Holloway 1951).

Like his parents he enjoyed skiing and was befriended by Walter Ingham who founded the travel firm Inghams. He acted as courier for the trips Walter organised. He played squash and in his mid-years was a keen golfer playing on Wimbledon Common in a regulation red sweater.

After the war he joined the family firm - Carroll & Co -and was senior partner in the firm  (by then Carroll, Buglar, Watson & Swaine) when he died on 12 March 1968. He was involved with the 11th Christian Science Church in London until the mid-1960s and took an active part in Dale Carnegie courses.

He built his own house in 1953 at 23A Arthur Road, Wimbledon (now no 35), designed by his friend  in a modern style using exposed white brickwork and large "picture windows" one of which was double-glazed in the living room. The house also had coke fired central heating.

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CHARLES BRIAN O'CARROLL

Brian was born on 2 March 1917 in Oxford where he spent his early years until the family moved to Wimbledon in the1920s. He was educated first in Oxford and then at Radley where he became an oarsman.

At the outbreak of the second World War he was at Barts Hospital and studying for his FRCS. He was entered on the Medical Register on 15 January 1941. On joining the Royal Army Medical Corps he was posted to West Africa and then Italy. During this time he met his future wife, a nurse at Barts, Mildred Jones and they were married in 1942. They had two children, Jennifer (born 17 February 1943)  and Timothy (born 15 April 1947 in Wimbledon). In the 1950s the family moved to Redruth in Cornwall where Brian became a partner in an NHS general practice. OBITUARY IN WEST BRITON

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Wilfred Vivian Ferns O’CARROLL

Vivian was born on 11 December 1878 at Queenstown the son of John Thomas Carroll and Annie Sophia Ferns. He was baptised at Christ Church, Rushbrook on 7 February 1879. He died 28 April 1943 at Chichester, Sussex

Vivian adopted the name O’Carroll along with his father in 1894. There is no family tradition as to why this was done at that time, but his brother Claude also changed his name to O’Carroll at that time.

Vivian married Ellen Katherine HUNTER in September 1905. (b.9/1/1883; d.19/6/1966 at Battle, Sussex.) They had two children, John Ferns and Ellen Mary (b.16/3/1916; d.24/0/2003). She married 24/3/1938 in Richmond. They had two children Christopher and Geraldine.

During the First World War, Vivian was in the British Army in Syria, Damascus and Palestine where he met Lawrence of Arabia. He was a stockbroker working with his brother Claude. He lived in Chichester where he died aged 64.

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John Ferns O’CARROLL

John was born on 9 February 1912 in Richmond, Surrey, the son of Wlifred Vivian Ferns O'Carroll. He went to Magdalene College School, Oxford He had a scholarship as a choir boy.
When he left school he worked in insurance until the 2^nd WW when he joined Queens  Own Royal Regiment. He ended the war as a major. He saw action at Dunkirk where he was shot in the ankle. He returned to Northern France for the end of the war.
In 1942  he married Beatrice Mary GRESTY from Cheshire. John was stationed in Manchester at the time and met his future wife in a Manchester hotel.  They stayed with Uncle Claude for a while before renting the house opposite in Drax Avenue, Wimbledon and by 1948/49 they moved to live in Dorking, Surrey. He took up his job as an insurance salesman. They then moved to Brighton where they brought up their two children Patricia (b 1950) and Michael (b.1951).
 
In the late 1950s they holidayed in Spain and by the mid-1970s he retired from Norwich Union and he set up a business looking after properties in Spain. They lived in Palamos . By the late 1980s they decided to return to the UK and lived in Hove.

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