When Isabella Kerr was born in 1817, in Conwal, Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland, her father, Andrew Kerr, was 38 and her mother, Marjory Stewart, was 38. She married Moses Wauson on 22 February 1840, in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851 and Auchterderran, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1861. She died on 14 March 1885, in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 68.
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Dryburgh Abbey Bridge was a cable-stayed footbridge that connected the villages of Dryburgh and St. Boswells, across the River Tweed. Before its construction, A ferry crossing service had existed here for centuries. It was originally 79 meters long and was undergoing a period of rapid growth in popularity. The Bridge was completed on August 1 but a few months later it collapsed. Very shortly after the collapse, another bridge was built further downstream. A new bridge, which still stands today, was constructed after the first World War.
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Jenners was founded by Charles Jenner as a department store for the community. The original building was destroyed by a fire in 1892 but, with a new design in mind, the store was reopened in 1895 with new features. It was named Harrods of the North after it was given Royal Warrant in 1911 and was visited by Queen Elizabeth II on its 150th anniversary. It was sold to the House of Fraser in 2005, which in 2008, made much needed improvements to the store.
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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