Hello, I've been researching my KERR and HENDERSON ancestors who first arrived in Canada in 1820's for ~8 years. When I first got the Internet in 2000, and started on-line genealogy a little later, I lucked out because I found out that researchers in Canada had already researched that "family-group." The very good web site about them has 95% of the people as KERR people, with only a few showing up with the CARR spelling. So, I had my ancestors (cousins), Robert KERR and Elizabeth HENDERSON, with those spellings, and the same for their 5 children. Son, William, came down to MA ~1874 and married here a few years later. Daughter, Mary Ann, followed him ~1878 and lived with her brother initially. Because of helpful researchers, I found out that Mary married a William McINNIS / McINNES. More helpful researchers have responded to my new queries, and I have found out that they married in 1882 in Everett, but she was written down as Mary Ann CARR. So I have become curious whether the City Clerk just wrote down the surname - the way she heard it. Or, whether Mary didn't check the record for accuracy. Etc. I believe there were other KERR families ~1900 in the Everett and Malden area because I've seen funeral homes in those cities with that name. I have no idea whether they were related. I don't know whether any of Robert's relatives also came down to MA. (The KERR's and HENDERSON's arriving in Canada in 1820's had about 45 children between them, and most survived. 5 couples) By the way, we have always pronounced the name as KERR Ooops I don't know how to type up that pronunciation. But, I remember the actress, Deborah KERR, who I'm told had her name pronounced as CAR. Just an FYI for you. Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) Any New-England-Memories ???