Brief Life History of Andrew
Andrew Kerr was born in 1559. He married Isabella Whitlaw about 1575. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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Spouse and Children
1559– Male
1557– Female
Children (1)
1577– Male
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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