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-Local, 'at the carr' or 'kerr',q.v. The latter is a common form of
entry in the Yorkshire Poll tax, &c. The frequency with which such
entries as Robert or William del Carr, or atte Carr, or Karr, or Kerr recur
in the Lancashire and Yorkshire records of the 13th and 14th centuries
is explained by the fact that Carr or Kerr meant a low-lying meadow. It
is still so used in all the northern counties, I saw in the Clifton Arms
Hotel, Blakpool, Dec. 6, 1887, a placard announcing the sale of a freehold
farm near Bispham. 'All that Meadow, or Carr, containing six acres' occured
twice, and one plot of ground was called Fayles Meadow, or Deborah's Carr.
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In the Yorkshire Poll Tax (1379) almost every village has some one styled
William or John del Kerr in it; v. Carus.
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Thomas Carr, Agnes uxor ejus, 1379; P.T. Yorks, p. 43.
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Willelmus att Karr, 1379; ibid. p.44
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Johannes del Karr, 1379; ibid, p. 67 1610
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burried-Mabill, d. John Carr: St. Jas. Clerkenwell,iv. 114. 1742
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Married-James Carr and Ann Holt; St. Geo. Chap. Mayfair, p. 20London 62.-4-
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