Welcome to the Carbon County (PA) Migrations Project. The purpose of this project is to catalog migrations INTO and OUT of Carbon. If you have ancestors who lived in Carbon and know when and where they either migrated to or from Carbon, please email Barb Lavin. The information you provide will be added to the data base.

If you have any questions about the Carbon Migrations page, please contact Barb Lavin.

If you would like to volunteer to help with Pennsylvania State Migration Project, please contact Barb Lavin who are developing and coordinating the Pennsylvania Migrations Project.

Updated Jan 07,2000

Name/Line	Into County	From	Whom	Information	Out of County	Where
H
Holmes	1840	County Donegal, Ireland	Charles	Married Fanny Burns in First Pres. Ch. Mauch Chunk
Holmes/Jones			Rev. Charles Holmes and Mary Jones	Their first child, Ruth Ellen Holmes was born in Pa 1869 More than likely in Carbon Co. but could have been during migration of the Jones and Holmes to Stark co., IL	Abt 1869	Stark County, Ill
J
Jones/Marsden			Issac Marsden and Ruth Marsden	Isaac Jones father of Mary Jones, Died in Stark County, IL His wife Ruth Marsden Jones and some children moved to NE where they took up Homestead land. Later at least one of the grandsons of Isaac moved on to California. Crossed the cont. in 2 gen.Information		Stark County, Ill and Nebraska
M
Murphy/Gillian	About 1846	Ballyhacket,Glennahorry,Parish of Dunboe, half Barony of Coleraine, Northern Ireland	James Murphy and Rose Gillian	emigrated from Northern Ireland,via Liverpool,England on hms Henry in 1846,arrived New York, settled at Woodside(Summit Hill,Carbon County,Pa. USA)
P
Petrey	Abt 1865	Schuylkill County, Pa		most of the known family are buried in the Union Cemetery at Weatherly Pa
Y
Youngkin/Christman			Robert Youngkin and Barbara Christman	left county (Towamensing twp) by covered wagon, went down the Ohio river also	1878	Hennepin County,Minnesota