When Andrew Kerr of Fenton was born about 1550, in Newbattle, Midlothian, Scotland, his father, Sir Mark Kerr, Commendator of Newbattle, was 35 and his mother, Helen, Lady Seton, Cessford Leslie, was 31. He married Isabella Whitlaw about 1575, in Scotland. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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