Researching John Carew
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 282 people with the Carew surname? In that year Carew was ranked number 3297 for popularity in the UK. |
The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Carew on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of John Carew in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Carew and the Carew Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Carew Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Carew family tree.
Look at Parish Records for John Carew at Find My Past.
Explore for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of John Carew using the FreeBMD database.
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Look at the LDS Database for records about John Carew.
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| Did you know that there are currently 622 people with the Carew surname in the UK? Carew is now ranked number 3453 for popularity in the UK. |
Carew Family History Databases
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Check out the WikiTree database for user contributed records for John Carew.
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Carew Forums
There are a number of forums which are dedicated to rearching particular surnames. These can be good places to share your findings and also to tap into the knowledge that others may already have. These can sometimes be a good way of finding living relations as these tend not to show up on the other sources of information for privacy reasons.
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Miscellaneous Carew Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on John Carew. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called John Carew
John Carew (Canadian politician)
John Carew (January 5, 1862 – July 19, 1927) was an Ontario lumber merchant and political figure. He represented Victoria South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative member from 1914 to 1919.
He was born in Emily Township, Victoria County, Canada West, the son of John Carew, and educated in Lindsay. In 1885, he married Margaret Kelly. He was president and general manager of the John Carew Lumber Company in Lindsay and was also involved in woollen mills, brick manufacturing and a steamboat company. He was a governor for the Ross Memorial Hospital at Lindsay and served on the board of education. Carew was also president for the Lindsay Central Exhibition.
Two of Carew's daughters, Roberta and Gertrude, married, respectively, two brothers, Cecil and Leslie Frost who became prominent in the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. Leslie was Premier of Ontario from 1949 to 1961. Another daughter, Annie, married Stanley Beal, the son of wealthy tannery owner Robert M. Beal who was Mayor of Lindsay and a Communist. Carew and Beal detested one another. John Carew's eldest son, Frank, was lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian Forestry Corps during World War One and a very successful curler, serving as vice-skip for legendary J.D. Flavelle, then winning two Ontario championships as skip.
He died July 19, 1927
Source: John Carew (Canadian politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Carew (sprinter)
John Carew (born 17 September 1952) is a retired sprint runner from Sierra Leone. He competed in the 100 m event at the 1980 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the final.
In 1974 Carew came from Sierra Leone to the Soviet Union to study at the Rostov Institute of Civil Engineering. He married a Russian woman in 1978 in Rostov, and had four children with her: Olah, Willy, Victor and Katerina Keyru. Olah became an actor, Willy a singer, while Victor and Katerina are international basketball players. John Carew later returned to Sierra Leone, after being awarded a degree PhD in technical sciences, leaving his family in Russia.
Source: John Carew (sprinter), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Carew
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