When Thomas Kerr was born on 15 September 1764, in Ulster, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, his father, William Kerr Sr., was 25 and his mother, Nancy Jane Love, was 24. He married Mary Ann Young on 12 March 1788, in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Mercer Township, Butler, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Mason, Magoffin, Kentucky, United States in 1850. He died on 20 April 1851, in Maysville, Mason, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Maysville, Mason, Kentucky, United States.
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Historical Boundaries : 1780: Fayette, Virginia, United States 1786: Bourbon, Virginia, United States 1789: Mason, Virginia, United States 1792: Mason, Kentucky, United States
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English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh or swampy woodland, Middle English kerr ‘brushwood, wet ground’ (Old Norse kjarr). A legend grew up that the Kerrs were left-handed, on theory that the name is derived from Gaelic cearr ‘wrong-handed, left-handed’.
Irish: variant of Carr .
Americanized form of German Kehr or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
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