When John Tarr was born in 1840, in Crediton, Devon, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Tarr, was 38 and his mother, Sarah Chaffe, was 26. He lived in Tormohun, Devon, England, United Kingdom in 1841. He died on 10 October 1900, in Wellington, New Zealand, at the age of 60.
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English (mainly Devon and Somerset): habitational name from Tarr in Hawkridge, or Tarr in Lydeard Saint Lawrence (both in Somerset). The placenames may derive from Old English torr ‘rock, rocky peak’, though this cannot be certain as early forms of the placenames have not been found.
English: metonymic occupational name from Middle English tar(re) ‘tar’ (Old English teoru), for someone who worked with tar, such as a person who tarred ships to keep them watertight.
Possibly also an altered form of German Tharr, unexplained.
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