Yesterday, to my great surprise and via www.immigrantships.net, to whom I 
offer my thanks, I discovered a new fact about an ancester of mine.  
CHRISTOPHER CARUS (b 1688 in Halton, Lancashire, England) who was 
previously thought to have been killed in the first Jacobite Rising, in fact 
survived and was transported to Virginia on the ship 'Elizabeth & Ann'.  
Notification of the arrival of this ship was made to the authorities in 
Williamsburg on 14 January 1776.  This was a bit of a stunning discovery and 
clearly opens up a whole new area of research.

I'm resident in England so unable to conduct research in Virginia personally and 
would be very grateful if any member of this forum can give me any 
information they may have on Christopher Carus, or indeed any member of the 
Carus family, or the ship.  For completeness there was subsequent emigration 
of Caruses to Iowa possibly about 1830ish and that is also a bit of a blank 
area to me.

With many thanks,
Anthony Carus

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