Crawford Davison Kerr

Profile & Legacies Summary

1790 - 13^th May 1878

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Son of George and Isabella Kerr and partner in Baillie Kerr and Company (q.v).

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.

Sources

Crawford Davison Kerr also appears as a correspondent of Jardine Matheson for Lindsays & Co. [n.d.] http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0012%2FMS%20JM%2FMS.JM%2FB7%2F15

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.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

(1) Mary (2) Susan Adams (1824)

Children

With (1) Crawford [Davison], Mary, Eliz. Gordon, Charles Simpson, Charlotte Fairly Tod, Isabella Margaret, Geo. (1812-), Geo. (1817-)

Occupation

Merchant

Associated Claims (4)

Associated Estates (3)

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