The Kerr Surname
- Meaning
- brushwood, marshland
- Type
- Locational
- Root
- Old Norse kjarr
- Chiefly
- The Scottish Borders
From the Old Norse kjarr, marshy ground grown over with brushwood — a name for someone who lived by such a place. The same root gives the English Carr.
It is pronounced both ‘car’ and ‘cur’ in Scotland, and the families concerned have never entirely agreed which.
Bestow the name a title it never had
An honorific Lord or Lady certificate in the Kerr name, hand-finished and sealed, with a square metre of Scottish woodland dedicated alongside it. A novelty, magnificently done — and a good deal more fun than a family tree.
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