Tour Scotland wee travel video of a Clan Kerr castle on ancestry visit to the Borders. The castle was the principal stronghold of the Clan Kerr, notorious Border Reivers, many of whom served as Wardens of the Middle March. It was built in 1450 by Andrew Ker, ancestor of Robert Ker, 1st Earl of Roxburghe, and ancestor of the Dukes of Roxburghe. The castle was besieged in 1523 by the Earl of Surrey. The castle was last inhabited in 1650.
The surname Kerr was first found in Lancashire, located in north west England and dates back to 1180, where one of the earliest records of a progenitor of the Clan was a John Ker, hunter, resident of Soonhope in 1190 AD. He is believed to have received a grant of land from the Crown and settled in the Border country of Scotland soon after the Norman invasion moved northwards.
Kerr Clan history
A video on the history of the Kerr family.
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Derivatives of Kerr = Ker, Carr,Car etc The name has changed over the years in some cases due to family feuds or the need to fit in with other parts of British society and to form distance from the original family name.
Also see info on the 60's TV series about the Kerr family THE BORDERERS.
Kerr Memorial Window Logie Kirk Stirling Stirlingshire Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the Kerr memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit to Logie Kirk near the Wallace Monument by Stirling, Stirlingshire. To the Glory of God and in loving memory of our parents William and Helen Kerr, Riverbank, 1905 to 1983.