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My father has been researching our family tree for several years. We are descended from Peter Carrico and his second wife. My grandfather, Wesley Carrico, followed his girlfriend's family to Alberta prior to the first world war from Hannibal, Missouri and stayed to homestead.We are the only Canadian Carricos that I know of, although we have heard rumours of others through the years. I was told by a Basque that the name is of Basque origin and that there is a village called Karrika or Karriko(the letter "c" does not occur in the Basque language). I believe Basques were expert seafarers and shipbuilders and perhaps could have come to England to be employed in this industry. A year ago I met a recent Spanish emigrant to Vancouver. When I told him that I believed that my family's origin was basque and we had the name of a village, he informed me that he was also researching his own family's genealogy and that we were quite likely to have been converted Muslims or Jews. A habit of the Inquistion was to give these converts the name of the town in which they were residing. Growing up, we heard three stories of the Carrico origins. One, that four brothers came from Northern France to Louisiana in the mid-17th century. Two, that the family was originally from Ireland and we were descended from Spanish sailors shipwrecked after the Armada (very romantic). Three, that the family was from the Appalachian Mountains, had intermarried with Indians and had been on the north American continent for a long time. My late mother told me this but what her source was I don't know.
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