He was probably named after his brother Samuel who died in infancy four years before.
Samuel had siblings born in Scotland, Ireland & Australia.
Sources
Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.
Scotlands People:Church registers - Old Parish Registers Births and baptisms - 'Old Parish Registers', Surname: 'Kerr', Forename: 'Samuel', Gender: 'M', From_year: '1845', To_year: '1850'. No matching record.
Irish Church Records:Baptism, Marriage and Burial results for Samuel Kerr from 1845 to 1850
No results found.
Acknowledgements
Kerr-2528 was created by Sharna Thompson through the import of Sharna_s Family Tree.ged on Mar 8, 2014.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Samuel by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Samuel: