McBride - Bumpus Genealogy

Our Thomas Carrier (alias Thomas Morgan) arrived in the Americas first in Nova Scotia,  Canada sometime after the execution of King Charles I.   For whatever reasons, he made his way by walking from Canada to the English colonies that later became part of the United States.

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Carrier  Surname  Origin

Thomas Carrier - Born 1626 in Wales

Surname Carrier Coat of Arms

​Carrier Surname Origin & History

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(French-Latin) Quarryman [French carrier, quarryman, Latin quadratarius, stone- squarer; ult. from Latin quadrus, square]

​(French) One who worked in a quarry.

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English and southern French: from Middle English, Old French

car (r) ier ( Late Latin carrarius, a derivative of carrum ‘ cart ’ ,

‘wagon’, of Gaulish origin); in English an occupational name 

for someone who transported goods, in French for a cartwright.

French: occupational name for stonemason or quarryman, carrier.