Carr Surname History

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SURNAME MEANING
Irish surname derived from a shortened Anglicized form of Ó Carra, meaning “descendant of Carra”, a personal name from the adjective corr, meaning “pointed”, explained as meaning “spear”.

An English and Scottish variant of the surname Kerr, a topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh or swampy woodland from the Middle English word kerr, meaning “brushwood wet ground”

EARLY BEARERS
Thomas Carr – Yorkshire – 1379
William att Karr – Yorkshire – 1379
John del Karr – Yorkshire – 1379

KNIGHTHOODS
Sir George Carr, Secretary of State in Ireland – 1662
Sir Ralph Carr of Cockin, Member of Parliament – 1676
Sir Thomas Carr of Bedingham, Sheriff of Sussex – 1800
Sir John Carr of the Middle Temple - 1806
Sir Henry William Carr, Lieutenant Colonel – 1815
Sir William Ogle Carr, Chief Justice in Ceylon - 1854

NOBLE TITLES HELD
Robert Carr (c. 1587-1645), politician and favorite of King James who was elevated to the Peerage as Viscount Rochester in 1611 and was further elevated as Earl of Somerset in 1613

The Carr Baronetcy of Sleaford in the County of Lincolnshire was title in the Baronetage of England created in 1611 for Sir Edward Carr who was Sheriff of Lincolnshire

LANDED GENTRY
Carre of Cavers Carre, co. Roxburgh, Scotland
Carre of Stonehouse, co. Waterford, Ireland, formerly of Arnestown

NOTABLES
Emily Carr (1871-1945) was a Canadian artist and writer who was inspired by the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast

Emma Perry Carr (1880-1972) was an American spectroscopist and chemical educator

Benjamin Carr (1768-1831) was an American composer, singer, teacher, and music publisher

Rear Admiral William James Carr, (1883-1966) was an Australian naval officer and physician, who served as the Royal Australian Navy's Director of Naval Medical Services from 1932 to 1946.

Eugene Asa Niel Carr (1830-1910) was a soldier in the United States Army and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War who received the Medal of Honor

EARLY SETTLERS
John Carr – Virginia - 1626
George Carr – Massachusetts – 1633
Robert Carr – Massachusetts – 1635
Caleb Carr – Rhode Island – 1635
Francis Carr – Virginia – 1653
Anthony Carr – Virginia – 1653
Walter Carr – Maryland - 1662