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Subject: Re: carson for a boy?
Author: Jarrod Dahl   (guest, 130.76.96.19)
Date: January 6, 2003 at 11:33:33 AM
Reply to: carson for a boy? by RW
Carson, Scandinavian for "son of Carr". Many Scandinavian names are simuliar, Johnson, "son of John"... Traceing Scandinavian names is dificult. People took last names relative to where they lived or what farm they lived on. If they moved they would take on the name of the place they moved to.

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