When Patrick Martin Carroll was born on 11 March 1889, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, his father, Patrick Carroll, was 59 and his mother, Honorah Therese Hourigan, was 28. He died in 1946, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 57.
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Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
First Federal election.
Canberra is founded and designated as the capital. The Federal Capital Territory is established as an area of two 360 square kilometers in the Yass-Canberra district.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Ó Cearbhaill or Mac Cearbhaill ‘descendant (or son) of Cearbhall’, a personal name perhaps based on cearbh ‘hacking’ and hence originally a byname for a butcher or a fierce warrior.
English and Scottish: variant of Carrell .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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