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Cara Family - Cornwall (UK)- Italy - Melbourne (AUS)

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Re: Cara Family - Cornwall (UK)- Italy - Melbourne (AUS)

9hunnylove  (View posts) Posted: 29 Jun 2011 6:22AM GMT
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Surnames: Cara
This is so interesting. I was always told the Caras were descended from Spanish sailors, but am not sure where my family got that idea, as Cara is also Gaelic (and Italian, not but not Spanish, as far as I know). I've been told maddeningly little about them, though!
My grandmother, Catherine May, was a Cara; she was born around 1901, and had three or four sisters. I know the names of two of them: Rose and Mona. Her father was a dentist from Penzance, but the family had apparently gone up to Liverpool by the time she was born. I'd figured her dad's name was probably Stephen, but now I see that was a pretty safe bet, what with the plethora of Stephens!
Catherine's descendants are now in the north west of England (mostly), British Columbia (my parents emigrated here in the mid-'60s), Holland, and, strangely enough, Melbourne, though we don't bear the Cara surname.
SubjectAuthorDate Posted
Peggy 24 Mar 2006 9:42PM GMT 
mtewson 24 Nov 2008 3:22PM GMT 
niamhcara 15 Feb 2010 5:37PM GMT 
stevecara_1 9 Jan 2011 10:46PM GMT 
MaurineNuttal... 18 Jun 2011 5:24AM GMT 
9hunnylove 29 Jun 2011 6:22AM GMT 
Idun42 29 Nov 2011 2:33AM GMT 
   

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