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Carl Carlsson
is a native of Baja California del Norte (Southern California).
His extended family has been in California
since before it was part of the USA.
The family has lived under the rule of Spain and Mexico.
Principal California family abodes have included
Whittier, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Carlsbad, San Diego,
Santa Barbara and San Francisco. But, like
most USA families, ancestors have come
from various parts of the world and at
different times.
The Carlsson
Family began in approximately 1600 BC in
Celtic Northwest Spain (present day Galicia)
and then to Ireland. In the late 5th
Century A.D., Carlsson ancestor, Fergus Mor
Mac,
King of Ireland,
went to Scotland with his army to assist his
maternal grandfather Loarn, King of Dalriada
(Scotland), in overcoming his enemies, the
Picts. When King Loam died, Fergus Mor Mac
was unanimously elected King, and became the
first absolute King of all Scotland of the
Milesian Race
Between in the
5th and 6th Century A.D., members of the
Irish and Scottish Clans married into the
Merovingian
and
Carolingian Dynasties of the Frankish
Empire that includes modern day Germany,
Austria, France and the Low Countries.
Eventually the clans married into English
dynasties and became Lords, holders of
estates and other lesser functionaries and
merchants.
By the 1500's family members served King Henry VIII
at Court. However, under order of Elizabeth
I, certain key members spent time in Her
Majesty's prison and the Tower of London.
Consequently, the family decided it was time
for a change and began the immigration to
the American Colonies in late 1599.
In 1620, Carlsson's Pilgrim ancestor,
William Brewster, came to
the Plymouth Colony aboard the Mayflower. Our
Mayflower family celebrated
"The First American Thanksgiving."
Carlsson's New
England family surnames include Tiffany,
Comstock, Brewster, Noyes, Curtis, Pickett, Whipple
and others. Others followed the
Mayflower voyage on the ships Fortune, Anne
and Little James in 1621 and 1623.
Family members
contributed to the writing of the
Mayflower Compact founded towns in
Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island,
were co-founders of Yale University,
Signors of
Declaration of Independence (William
Whipple) and were
participants in the evolution of government,
war and religious development within the
Early American Colonies. Others moved
to Virginia, Kentucky and the Carolinas in
the mid to late 1600's.
In the early
1700's others arrived from Germany and
England and settled in the Virginia,
Carolinas and Massachusetts Colonies. In
early 1800's, a few decided to travel from
England to New Orleans and travel up the
Mississippi to colonize the upper Mid-West.
By the 1830's,
however, many these various family branches
moved West to the Pacific Coast of Spanish
California and to the present day states of
Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Idaho. A
small group also traveled to Canada and helped
establish the small Town of Carston,
Alberta, Canada in 1887. The Swedish
branch of the family arrived in the USA in the early
1900's.
Within this
website you will discover personal stories
of Carl Carlsson's Mayflower ancestors and
others who followed in the very early
1600's. Resources for these stories
include personal journals, journals of their
children and public records.
In addition,
Carl had the privilege as a young teenager,
of listening to both of his fraternal
great-grandmothers (born 1863 / 1869) tell
him stories of the family adventures. These
ladies repeated colourful stories told to
them by their grandmothers of life in the
American Colonies and Europe before the
American Revolution.
Please take
a moment to visit this website and learn
more about Carl
Carlsson and his New England Mayflower
linage, Western Pioneers, Swedish craftsmen,
English gentry,
and East Prussians.
Carl
Carlsson
PO Box 327, Palm Harbor,
FL 34682
Tel: 727-771-9000 / Fax:
727-499-7520
Email:
CarlCarlsson@yahoo.com
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