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As many of you know there is much bad information out there concerning the Carr family,
and the following publication contains fraudulent information most of which was forged by
Gustave Anjou (c1863-1942) His real name was Gustaf Ludvig Ljungberg, born in Sweden.
BOOK:
CARR Family of Scotland, England and the United States Part 1: Scotland and the United
States by Gustave Anjou (Pre.1925) Commissioned by General Julian Shakespear CARR of
Durham, N.C. (principal partner in the Bull Durham Tobacco Co.) also Edited by Joseph
J. Carr (1990 & 1995) 929.27 C23a {FHL Salt Lake City, UT}
Follows is what we have validated on this family.....
Jim White
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Descendants of John Carr Sr.
First Generation
1. John Carr Sr. [1209] was born in 1715 in Bearfaulds, Roxburgh, Scotland and
died after 1778 in Rockingham County, Virginia.
Noted events in his life were:
* He immigrated in 1740 to Virginia. Name: John Carr
Year: 1740
Place: Virginia
Source Publication Code: 2302
Primary Immigrant: Carr, John
Annotation: Persons who proved their importation to obtain "head
rights" to land in the Colony. Also in no. 0720, Boyer, Ship Passenger
Lists, the South, pp. 91-95. And see nos. 5831, Morton; and 3816, King.
Source Bibliography: FRY, PHILIP H. "Importations." In William Wallace
Scott's, A History of Orange County, Virginia, from Its Formation in
1734 (O.S.) to the End of Reconstruction in 1870.... Richmond [Va.]:
Everett Waddey Co., 1907, pp. 225-229. Reprinted by Chesapeake Book
Co., Berryville, Va., 1962, and by Regional Publishing, Baltimore,
1974.
Page: 226
* Virginia Land Grant: 30 Jul 1742, Augusta County, Virginia. Title
Carr, John.
Publication 30 July 1742.
Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office.
Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.
Related See also the following surname(s): Karr.
Note Location: Augusta County.
Description: 400 acres on both sides of Catheys River joining
Beverly Mannors line.
Source: Land Office Patents No. 20, 1741-1743 (v.1 & 2 p.1-566), p.
354 (Reel 18).
Part of the index to the recorded copies of patents for land issued
by the Secretary of the Colony serving as the colonial Land Office. The
collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia.
Subject - Personal Carr, John. grantee.
Mannor, Beverly.
Subject - Topical Land titles. -- Registration and transfer --
Virginia -- Augusta County
Subject -Geographic Augusta County (Va.) -- History -- 18th century.
Genre/Form Land grants -- Virginia -- Augusta County.
Added Entry Virginia. Colonial Land Office. Patents, 1623-1774.
Library of Virginia. Archives.
System Number 000733629
* Virginia Land Grant: 12 May 1759, Augusta County, Virginia. Title
Carr, John.
Publication 12 May 1759.
Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office.
Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.
Related See also the following surname(s): Karr.
Note Location: Augusta County.
Description: 174 acres on a draft of North River Shanando.
Source: Land Office Patents No. 34, 1756-1765, p. 358 (Reel 33-34).
Part of the index to the recorded copies of patents for land issued
by the Secretary of the Colony serving as the colonial Land Office. The
collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia.
Subject - Personal Carr, John. grantee.
Subject - Topical Land titles. -- Registration and transfer --
Virginia -- Augusta County
Subject -Geographic Augusta County (Va.) -- History -- 18th century.
Genre/Form Land grants -- Virginia -- Augusta County.
Added Entry Virginia. Colonial Land Office. Patents, 1623-1774.
Library of Virginia. Archives.
System Number 000733630
*
Information: Rockingham County was created from Augusta County Virginia
1778, and the Immigrant John was still living at that time.
John's grandson John was given his grandfathers property in Rockingham
County after John Sr. died ... he can be found living on the propety
1810 Census ... Rockingham County, Virginia
John married Lucey Wallace [1210] [MRIN: 488] on 13 Jun 1739 in Darnick, ,
Roxburgh, Scotland. Lucey was born in 1719 in Darnick, , Roxburgh,
Scotland and died after 1778 in Rockingham County, Virginia.
Noted events in her life were:
* Immigration: 1740, Virginia. Name: John Carr
Year: 1740
Place: Augusta Co., Virginia
Family Members: Wife Lucey
Source Publication Code: 3816
Primary Immigrant: Carr, John
Annotation: Legal proceedings before Orange County Court, Virginia,
where settlers proved their entitlement to enter public lands. Also in
no. 5831, Morton; no. 2302, Fry; in no. 720, Boyer, Ship Passenger
Lists, the South, pp. 91-95; and in no. 9144, Tepper, New Wor
Source Bibliography: KING, FANNIE BAYLY (Mrs. W.W.). "Augusta County
Early Settlers, Importations, 1739-1740." In National Genealogical
Society Quarterly, vol. 25:2 (June 1937), pp. 46-50.
Page: 46
Children from this marriage were:
+ 2 M i. John Carr Jr. [1214] was born in 1740 in Auguata County,
Virginia.
+ 3 M ii. Thomas Carr [707] was born in 1741 in Augusta County, Virginia
and died after 1830 in Woodford County, Kentucky.
Thomas married Mrs. Carr [921] [MRIN: 386] (b. 1740, d. Dec 1783).
Thomas next married Esther Lewis Hook, widow of George Hook Sr. [666] [MRIN: 296]
(b. 1741, d. 1837) on 11 Oct 1784 in Isle Of Wight County, Virginia. "NOTE:
Esther's
maiden name ... Lewis
+ 4 M iii. Peter Carr [1213] was born in 1742 in Augusta County, Virginia.
Second Generation (Children)
2. John Carr Jr. [1214] was born in 1740 in Auguata County, Virginia.
Noted events in his life were:
* Information: We do not know who John Carr Jr. married, but he had a son
named John who was given his grandfathers land in Rockingham County,
Virginia.
We have some indications that prove John Jr. moved to Isle of Wight
County from Nancemond County circa 1770 ....
* Proof: 10 Sep 1767, Nancemond County, Virginia. Proof John Carr Jr.
owned land in Nancemond County.....
Publication 10 September 1767.
Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office.
Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.
Related See also the following surname(s): Harryson.
Note Location: Nansemond County.
Description: 177 acres adjoining the land of Christopher Sanders,
John Carr and Peter Butler.
Source: Land Office Patents No. 37, 1767-1768, p. 165 (Reel 37).
Part of the index to the recorded copies of patents for land issued
by the Secretary of the Colony serving as the colonial Land Office. The
collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia.
Subject - Personal Harrison, William. grantee.
Sanders, Christopher.
Carr, John.
Butler, Peter.
Subject - Topical Land titles. -- Registration and transfer --
Virginia -- Nansemond County
Subject -Geographic Nansemond County (Va.) -- History -- 18th
century
Genre/Form Land grants -- Virginia -- Nansemond County.
Added Entry Virginia. Colonial Land Office. Patents, 1623-1774.
Library of Virginia. Archives.
System Number 000847391
3. Thomas Carr [707] was born in 1741 in Augusta County, Virginia and died
after 1830 in Woodford County, Kentucky.
Noted events in his life were:
* Information:
Thomas married Mrs. Carr [921] [MRIN: 386]. Mrs. was born in 1740 in Virginia
and died in Dec 1783 in Augusta County, Virginia at age 43.
Children from this marriage were:
+ 5 M i. Richard Carr [922] was born in 1772 in Virgina and died before
1830 in Mercer County, Kentucky.
Richard married Mary Ann Freeman [924] [MRIN: 387] (b. 1785, d. Bef
1840) on 23 Apr 1799 in Woodford County, Kentucky.
+ 6 F ii. Rossa Carr [923] was born in 1773 in Virginia and died before
1810 in Charleston, South Carolina.
Rossa married Thomas Sweeney [925] [MRIN: 388] (b. 1767) on 7 Sep 1790
in Woodford County, Kentucky.
+ 7 M iii. Reuben Carr [930] was born in 1774 in Virginia and died before
1840 in Franklin County, Kentucky.
Reuben married Susan Miles [931] [MRIN: 391] (b. 1790, d. Bef 1850) on 7
Oct 1807 in Woodford County, Kentucky.
Thomas next married Esther Lewis Hook, Widow of George Hook Sr., [666] [MRIN: 296],
daughter of Abraham Lewis [208] and Mary Morgan [223], on 11 Oct 1784 in Isle Of Wight
County, Virginia. Esther was born in 1741 in Chester County, Pennslyvania and died in
1837 in Woodford County, Kentucky at age 96.
Noted events in her life were:
* Information: We know nothing about who Thomas first wife was but the
month of her death. This information from a descendant of Elijah
Hook.
* Location: 1820, Woodford County, Kentucky. US 1820 Census - Woodford
County, Kentucky - only Carr family in the County
2 males 16-26
1 male 26-45
1 male over 45 ... Thomas
1 female 16-26
1 female over 45 ... Esther
* Location: 1830, Woodford County, Kentucky. US 1830 Census - Woodford
County, Kentucky
Thomas Carr....
1 male 20-30
2 males 30-40
1 male 80-90 ... Thomas
1 female 15-20
1 female 30-40
1 female 80-90 ... Esther
According to grandson Charles, his grandmother LEWIS lived to be the
age of ninety-six years, which with her believed birth year as 1741
proves the 96th year as 1837.
The child from this marriage was:
+ 8 F i. Francis (Fanny) Carr [926] was born in 1787 in Woodford County,
Kentucky and died before 1850 in Floyd County, Kentucky.
Francis married William Boyd [929] [MRIN: 390] (b. 1780, d. Bef 1860) on
1 Apr 1802 in Franklin County, Kentucky.
4. Peter Carr [1213] was born in 1742 in Augusta County, Virginia.
Noted events in his life were:
* Information: We do not know who Peter married.
* Proof: 23 May 1780, Loudon County, Virginia. Proof Peter owned land in
Loudon County
Title Daniel, Joshua.
Publication 23 May 1780.
Other Format Available on microfilm. Northern Neck Grants, reels
288-311.
Note Location: Loudoun County.
Description: 703 acres beginning &c by a drain of Tuskerora Branch
adjoining Peter Carr, John Williams &c.
Source: Northern Neck Grants I, 1757-1781, p. 381-383 (Reel 294).
Original survey exists.
Part of the index to recorded copies of land grants issued by the
agents of the Fairfax Proprietary between 1690 and 1781 and by the
Commonwealth between 1786 and 1874. Original and recorded surveys are
also indexed when available. The collection is housed in the Archives
at the Library of Virginia.
Subject - Personal Daniel, Joshua. grantee.
Carr, Peter.
Williams, John.
Subject - Topical Land titles. -- Registration and transfer --
Virginia -- Loudoun County
Subject -Geographic Loudoun County (Va.) -- History -- 18th century
Genre/Form Land grants -- Virginia -- Loudoun County.
Surveys (land) -- Virginia -- Loudoun County.
Added Entry Northern Neck Land Office. Northern Neck grants,
1690-1874.
Northern Neck Land Office. Northern Neck surveys, 1697, 1722-1781.
Library of Virginia. Archives.
System Number 000851668
* Location: 1810, Loudon County, Virginia. Us 1810 Census - Loudon
County, Virginia
1 male 10-16
1 male 26-45
1 male +45
1 female 10-16
1 female 6-45
1 female +45
Third Generation (Grandchildren)
5. Richard Carr [922] was born in 1772 in Virgina and died before 1830 in
Mercer County, Kentucky.
Noted events in his life were:
* Information: After Richard died, his widow Mary Ann moved back to
Woodward County to be near Richard's family. She can be found on in
the 1830 Cenus as "Ann" Carr in Woodward County, Kentucky.
* Location: 1810, Mercer County, Kentucky. US 1810 Census - Mercer
County, Kentucky
1 male -10
1 male 10-16
1 male +45
2 females -10
1 female 10-16
1 female 16-26
* Location: 1820, Mercer County, Kentucky. US 1820 Census - Mercer
County, Kentucky
1 male 16-26
2 males 16-26
1 male +45
2 females 10-16
1 female 16-26
1 female 26-45
1 female +45
Richard married Mary Ann Freeman [924] [MRIN: 387], daughter of George
Freeman [1211] and Meziah Yancey [1212], on 23 Apr 1799 in Woodford
County, Kentucky. Mary was born in 1785 in Kentucky and died before 1840
in Woodford County, Kentucky.
Noted events in her life were:
* Location: 1830, Woodford County, Kentucky. US 1830 Census - Woodford
County, Kentucky
1 female -5
1 female 40-50
6. Rossa Carr [923] was born in 1773 in Virginia and died before 1810 in
Charleston, South Carolina.
Noted events in her life were:
* Information: Rossa & Thomas moved to Charleston South Carolina where
she died before 1810. They had two sons.
Rossa married Thomas Sweeney [925] [MRIN: 388], son of Moses Swimney [932]
and Unknown, on 7 Sep 1790 in Woodford County, Kentucky. Thomas was born
in 1767 in Virginia.
Noted events in his life were:
* Location: 1810, Charleston, South Carolina. US 1810 Census -
Charleston, South Carolina
Thomas
2 males 10-16
1 male 26-45
7. Reuben Carr [930] was born in 1774 in Virginia and died before 1840 in
Franklin County, Kentucky.
Noted events in his life were:
* Location: 1810, Woodford County, Kentucky. Us 1810 Census - Woodford
County, Kentucky
2 males -10
1 male 26-46
1 female 16-26
* Location: 1830, Franklin County, Kentucky. US 1830 Census - Franklin
County, Kentucky
1 male -5
1 male 5-10
1 male 10-15
2 males 15-20
2 males 20-30
1 male 40-50
1 male 70-80
1 female 5-10
1 female 10-15
1 female 15-20
1 female 40-50
Reuben married Susan Miles [931] [MRIN: 391] on 7 Oct 1807 in Woodford
County, Kentucky. Susan was born in 1790 in Virginia and died before 1850
in Franklin County, Kentucky.
Noted events in her life were:
* Location: 1850, Franklin County, Kentucky. US 1850 Census - Franklin
County, Kentucky - Written as Sason..?
Susan age 60 b. Virginia
Elizabeth age 20 b. Kentucky
Silas age 10 b. Kentucky
Jonas age 8 b. Kentucky
Listed adjacent above Susan - Arthur & cynthia and 7 children age 4/12
- 10
Listed Adjacent below Susan - James & Mary with sone Theodore age 1
8. Francis (Fanny) Carr [926] was born in 1787 in Woodford County, Kentucky
and died before 1850 in Floyd County, Kentucky.
Francis married William Boyd [929] [MRIN: 390] on 1 Apr 1802 in Franklin
County, Kentucky. William was born in 1780 in Virginia and died before
1860 in Floyd County, Kentucky.
Noted events in his life were:
* Location: 1810, Franklin County, Kentucky. US 1810 Census - Franklin
County, Kentucky
2 males -10
2 males 10-16
1 males 26-45
1 females -10
1 female 16-26
1 female 26-45
1 female +45
* Location: 1820, Franklin County, Kentucky. Census for not readable -
very faint....
* Location: 1830, Franklin County, Kentucky. Us 1830 Census - Franklin
County, Kentucky
1 male 50-60
2 females 20-30
1 female 50-60
* Location: 1840, Floyd County, Indiana. US 1840 Census - Floyd County,
Kentucky
1 male -5
1 male 60-70
1 female 15-20
1 female 50-60
* Location: 1850, Floyd County, Kentucky. Us 1850 Census - Floyd County,
Kentucky
Floyd in household with Delila Wood who is Head of Household
Floyd proves 70 years b. Virginia