Brief Life History of Ezekial
When Ezekial Carr was born on 12 February 1705, in Salisbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Sanders Carr, was 30 and his mother, Mary Purington, was 25. He married Mary Winch on 10 February 1724, in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1704. He died in 1793, in Weare, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 88.
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- Ezekiell Carr, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Ezekiel Carr, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Ezekil Carr in entry for Carr, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New Hampshire is 9th state.
Name Meaning
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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