[Last accessed 29 Aug 2013. Includes headstone photo. Inscription: Here lies the remains of - ELEANOR CARROLL - Wife of Daniel Carroll Esq. - Mother of Archbishop Carroll - Died Feb. 3, 1796, Aged 92 --- Here Rev. John Carroll - Built the 1st St. John's 1774 - Was made 1st Bishop of Baltimore 1790 - Archbishop 1808.] ----- [cos1776 20130829 note: states "Eleanor Darnall was born about 1703, at the Woodyard, the family home in Prince George's County, Maryland, near present day Andrews Air Force Base. Her parents were Henry Darnall II and Anne Digges. ..."]
[Last accessed 29 Aug 2013.] ... Daniel [Carroll], born in Ireland, settled at Upper Marlboro, where he became a merchant, and married Eleanor Darnall, a relative of the wife of Charles Carroll of Carrollton. She was very rich and had been well educated in France. Their first son died in infancy; their second, Daniel, figured prominently in Revolutionary history. John, their third son, was probably baptized at Boone's Chapel, now Rosaryville, Maryland. ... [more]