Hugh Bernard Carr was born in 1876, in Carlton, Victoria, Australia as the son of Daniel Curoe Carr and Helena Agatha Webb. He had at least 2 sons and 3 daughters with Catherine Johanna Donovan. He died in 1952, in Mentone, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 76, and was buried in Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Ó Carra ‘descendant of Carra’, a personal name from the adjective corr ‘pointed’, explained as meaning ‘spear’. As an Ulster surname, Carr was often confused with Scottish Kerr .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Mac Giolla Chathair, a Donegal name meaning ‘son of Giolla Cathair’ or ‘the servant (i.e. devotee) of Saint Cathar’. Cathar was a priest and bishop, otherwise unknown.
Irish: in Galway, a shortened Anglicized form of Mac Giolla Chéire, see Keary .
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