1790 - 13th May 1878
Son of George and Isabella Kerr and partner in Baillie Kerr and Company (q.v). Â Â
Trustee for marriage settlement of Alex. George Milne (q.v.) and Dorothea Milne in Grenada 958A&B and 995A & B and for Ellen Welchman (lately Jeffrey, née Katz) for British Guiana 378 A, B & C.
Baptised 10/03/1790 St George in the East Middx. Married Susan Adams at Ryde Hampshire 15/01/1824. Formerly of 4 Kensington Gardens but lately of 9 Great Stuart Street Edinburgh, died 13/05/1878. Personal estate under £9000.
At 6 Harley Street in 1830; 4 Kensington Garden Terrace in 1841; also at Lloyds Place, Lewisham in the census of 1841; back at Kensington Garden Terrace in the census of 1861.
Crawford Davison Kerr also appears as a correspondent of Jardine Matheson for Lindsays & Co. [n.d.]
Ancestry.com, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1912 [database online]; Ancestry.com, England & Wales Marriages 1538-1940 [database online]; children's names are drawn for Ancestry.com, Pallots Baptism Index for England 1780-1837 [database online] and Ancestry.com, London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 [database online]; London Gazette, Issue 24605, 16/07/1878, p. 4178; National Probate Calendar 1878.
Findmypast.co.uk, Westminster Rate Books 1634-1900 [database online]; 1841 and 1861 censuses online.
Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
(1) Mary (2) Susan Adams (1824)
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Children
With (1) Crawford [Davison], Mary, Eliz. Gordon, Charles Simpson, Charlotte Fairly Tod, Isabella Margaret, Geo. (1812-), Geo. (1817-)
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Occupation
Merchant
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£9,979 10s 3d
Awardee (Trustee)
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£9,025 8s 4d
Awardee (Trustee)
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£3,211 8s 10d
Unsuccessful claimant (Trustee)
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£7,186 12s 6d
Awardee (Trustee)
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The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:
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1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Trustee
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1830 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee
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1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Trustee
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Commercial (2) |
Name partner
Gledstanes,Kerr & Co.
East India merchant |
Name partner
Baillie, Kerr and Co.
General overseas merchant |
Trustee → Testator
Notes →
The two men were also almost certainly business...
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Trustee → Testator
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4 Kensington Garden Terrace, London, Middlesex, London, England
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6 Harley Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
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9 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian (Edinburgh), Central Scotland, Scotland
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Lloyds Place, Lewisham, London, Kent, London, England
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