Carr Family History
Carr Name Meaning
Northern English and Scottish: variant of
Kerr.Irish (Ulster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Carra ‘descendant of Carra’, a byname meaning ‘spear’.Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Chathair, a
Donegal name meaning ‘son of the servant of Cathair’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Carr
Name Distribution of Carr Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Carr families
 2,238 - 4,474  747 - 2,237 |
 1 - 746  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Carr families
|
203 - 404 68 - 202 |
1 - 67 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Carr census records
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Carr Family Origin
Carr Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Carr Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Carr Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Carr census records
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Military Service by Carr
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