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William Carr (abt. 1680 - 1760)

Captain William Carr
Born about in King William County, Colony of Virginiamap
Son of and [mother unknown]
Brother of
Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of — married 1736 in Colony of Virginiamap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 80 in Spotsylvania County, Colony of Virginiamap
Profile last modified | Created 6 Mar 2011
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The Birth Date is a rough estimate. See the text for details.
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Biography

Captain William Carr was the son of Thomas Carr and an unknown mother.[1] He was probably born in King William County, Colony of Virginia, in about 1680.

He is said to have married first (___) Chiles, and second Susannah Brooks.[1]

William made his will on 2 August 1760, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and died before 4 November 1760 when his will was proved in Spotsylvania County.[2]

In the will, he names his wife Susannah (___), who was one of the Executors and received the land William purchased from Thomas Ship and John Quarles. In addition, he names the following children:[1][2]

  1. Thomas
  2. William (received land in Louisa County)
  3. Ann (received land adjoining Nicholas Crenshaw)
  4. Elizabeth
  5. Phoebe (or Phebe)
  6. Walter Chiles (received land in Louisa County)
  7. Charles Brooks
  8. Agnes Brooks
  9. Sarah (married Mordecai Hord)
  10. Charles
  11. Mary

Research Notes

Estimated Birth Date

The birth date is a very rough estimate, based on the assumption that he was the younger brother and born only a few years after brother Thomas.

Many online genealogies give a birth date of 1707 for him, but this appears to be based solely on a baptismal record for the "William, ye Son of Thomas Carr of Bay gate" who was was baptized at Bolton-by-Bolland in Yorkshire on 16 October 1707.[3] This cannot be the same person, as the records cited in his profile establish that William's father Thomas was living in King William County, Virginia, between at least 1701-1709, not in Bay gate, Yorkshire, England.

Disputed Mother

A prior version of this profile, without source, identified Mary Garland as his mother.

Disputed Spouse

Some have identified various additional spouses with a LNAB of Winston. These include Elizabeth Sarah (Winston) Carr, Elizabeth (Winston) Carr, and Catherine (Winston) Carr. No sources are cited in any of these profiles and they have been detached as spouses of this William Carr.

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wilson Miles Cary, “Carr Family,” The William and Mary Quarterly 8 (1899): 106–108, at 108; digital images, JSTOR (www.jstor.org/stable/1915910 : accessed 4 Aug 2021).
  2. 2.0 2.1 William Armstrong Crozier, Virginia County Records: Spotsylvania County 1721-1800, (New York: Fox, Duffield & Co., 1905), 19; digital images, Hathitrust, (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuc.2629155_001 : accessed 9 Aug 2021).
  3. W.J. Stavert, ed., The Parish Register of Bolton-by-Bolland in the County of York, 1558-1724 (Yorkshire Parish Register Society, 1904), 230; digital images, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/publications19yorkuoft : accessed 9 Aug 2021). This record is indexed by FamilySearch in FamilySearch, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JQ5K-P3V : 10 April 2021), William Carr, 1707. The FamilySearch index is the source most commonly cited in online genealogies, if any source is cited, for this date.




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Carr-15854 and Carr-414 appear to represent the same person because: Both profiles show same spouse, Susanna Brooks/Brookes. Both profiles show a son Walter Chiles Carr. Both show death as 1780 in Spots County.
posted by Cody Wyatt
I have not found any evidence that he ever married a Winston. I plan to detach the profiles for Elizabeth, Elizabeth Sarah, and Catherine Winston, unless anyone objects. If you do, what source is there for the marriage?
posted by Scott McClain
An alternate pedigree is shown as William Carr 1680-1711 and Catherine Chiles 1691-1712

Children: 1. Mary Marcy Carr 1706-unk 2. William Winston Carr 1707-1760 (1c) m 1728 Elizabeth Winston 1710-1737 m abt 1741 Susannah Brooks 1720-1794/1803 (this is the William shown in your notes as having died in 1760 and the children attached to he and his wife) 3. Thomas Carr 1709-1742 (4c) 4. Samuel Carr 1711-1782 5. Gideon Winston Carr 1712-1783 6. Sarah Elizabeth Carr 1714 m 1732 John Minor (4 c)

some chldren shown in your list are actually the children of son William and one or more of his wives

posted on Carr-4695 (merged) by Nici (King) Mahlandt
An alternate pedigree can be found, here:
Williams, Deloris, State Coordinator "Descendants of Thomas Kerr", NCGenWeb Project, written by volunteers, accessed 6 Jun 2019.

I have placed Patrick Carr (abt.1709-abt.1743) as a son of William and Catherine (Winston) Carr on FamilySearch. Hopefully, some primary or secondary sources will emerge. As of this writing, Patrick is in another related Carr line (for which no sources are indicated, either).

That pedigree does place Gideon as a child and Patrick, but no others. Perhaps this William Carr married twice or else the children of a Susannah and William Carr are another line, altogether?

posted on Carr-4695 (merged) by Porter Fann

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