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CARNRIKE, CARNRITE, CARNRIGHT, CANRIGHT, CONRIGHT, CARNRICK,CARNWRIGHT SURNAMES

Maintained by Dr. David M. Carnrike, P.O.Box 130, Satsuma,AL 36572

All Pages updated JULY 2011

After researching court, census, cemetery,newspaper, church, and various other records on the family name, one learnsthat the largest problem is the variant spellings.

Forms of our family name (which alwayshas two syllables) include the following:

CARNRIKE, CARNRIGHT, CANRIGHT, CARNRICK,CARNRITE, CARNRYCK, CARNRWRIGHT, CANRITE, CANWRIGHT, CONRIGHT, CONRIKE, CONRITE,CONWRIGHT, CORNRIGHT, GARNRECK, GARNRYCK, GANRYCKE, GERNRECK, GERNRRIC,GERNREICH, GERNRYK, KARNRIJK, KARNRYCK, KARNRYK, KARNRYKE, KERNRICH, KERNRIKE,AND KERNRYK.

The forms having two "R's" are theolder, and of them, those beginning with "G" are the earliest, those with"K" come next, and those with "C" are the latest.

Ulster County N.Y. State CARNRIKE'swho moved west, first to Michigan and later to Minnesota, South Dakota,Washington, California, etc., dropped the first "R" and became "CANRIGHT"or "CONRIGHT."

Those who stayed in central NY State,or moved to western PA and Canada, keep the spelling"CARNRIKE."

Those who stayed in Ulster CountyNY State and eastern PA spell it either "CARNWRIGHT" or"CARNRIGHT."

Those who went to NY City and theNJ area spell it "CARNRICK."

JOHN PETER GERNREICK's son, Hieronomus,spelled his name CARNRIKE on the 1790 US Federal Census for NY. He and hisbrother, John as well as other members of the family spelled the name CARNRIKEon the 1810 census.

Dr. Alfred Hans Kuby of Edenkoben,who is so knowledgeable about the genealogy of his region and has been very helpful to all of us interested in immigration to America, advises Hank Jonesthat the father of John Peter, was NICOLAUS GERNREICH, in 1700 called an imperial solder of the Wurttemberg Regt. zu FuB, from Schluchtern near Heibronn, by profession a tailor; he married ANNA GERNERT from Konigsberg zu Oberhorrt.John Peter was baptized in Edenkoben on January 1700.