I am surprised at the number of people contributing to my family question, CARR Many thanks, I will be checking out the name KERR in the 1891 & 1901 census to see if I can trace the family. Cheers Joan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trevor" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 5:37 AM Subject: Re: [NMB] Question regarding CARR/Kerr > > > On 26/01/2013, at 9:53 PM, Brian Pears <[email protected]> wrote: > : > So please don't regard "Carr" as correct and "Kerr" as an error; >> in the 18th century, both were equally valid variants. "Carr" >> was simply the spelling choice of the first literate member of >> your particular branch of the family. There may be other distant >> branches of your family who made different choices. > > To illustrate: When I was younger the actress Deborah Kerr's name was > pronounced, at least among people I knew, as if it were "Carr". I might > be wrong, but I have an idea that she herself pronounced and wrote her > name as above. > > Trevor > > > .. >