I'm passing this onto the Border list, Michael.  Somene may identify with this Karr/Ramsey.  Enjoying your posts even if i don't recognise any of them  :-) le durachd fionnghal __________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> >From Whitehall Evening Post ( 1770 ) (  London, England ), December 30, 1795 - January 1, 1796; Issue  7509. WHITEHALL , Dec. 30. The King has granted unto David RAMSEY , of  Hatchford, in the parish of Cobham, in the county of Surrey, Esq., late Governor  of Bombay in the East Indies, and his issue, his royal licence and authority to  assume and take the surname, and bear the arms of KARR of Kippilaw, in addition  to his present surname and arms of RAMSEY, in compliance with a deed of Tailzie  by John KARR, of Kippilaw, in the Shire of Roxburgh, in North Britain, Esq. deceased.