When John Gott Carr was born on 16 June 1684, in County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, his father, John I Carre, was 30 and his mother, Margaret Kerr, was 25. He married Sarah Bachman Carr on 21 January 1721, in County Down, Ireland. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Downpatrick, County Down, Ireland in 1721. He died on 1 November 1794, in Leesburg, Loudoun, Virginia, United States, at the age of 110, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Leesburg, Loudoun, Virginia, United States.
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William of Orange (William III) lands at Carrickfergus and defeats James II at Battle of the Boyne.
Exclusion of Catholics from Parliament and all professions.
Catholics hold just 7% of land in Ireland.
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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