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stoop
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robert kerr and rachel
« on: Tuesday 04 December 07 19:14 UTC (UK) »
Robert Kerr was born in dumfriesshire in approximately 1755 he left Scotland and moved to England where Ido not know all I know is that he had a daughter named Rachel,possibly someone out there will know, thanking you stoop.
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Re: robert kerr and rachel
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 05 December 07 17:57 UTC (UK) »
It's a long shot but there is a rachel carr registered on IGI with father robert and mother ann at crosscanonby, cumberland 17-1-1813.  Given that crosscanonby is directly opposite dumfriesshire and mother often told tales of being able to walk across the solway firth at very low tides, I wonder. Have you heard such storied Geoff?
On the down side robert would be getting on a bit by 1812 not that that stops one having a family. I havent investigated a robert ann marriage but that might be worth doing to see if it was just before 1812 or are there other siblings.
BTW don't worry too much about the spelling - they were often wrong.
Maybe geoff could see if Rachel was still in crosscanonby in 1841 with ann (if she was much younger than robert!). Just a thought
bob
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Re: robert kerr and rachel
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 05 December 07 19:14 UTC (UK) »
The Rachel that Bob refers to was the seventh (and last) child of Robert and Ann to be baptised at Crosscanonby (batch C035582).  I can't see any sign of them in 1841, by which time I would have expected the girls to have been married anyway.

As a furriner, I don't know any stories about people walking across from Scotland, but there was a bloke on Top Gear a couple of weeks ago who walked across the Humber estuary from Yorks to Lincs.
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Re: robert kerr and rachel
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 05 December 07 20:44 UTC (UK) »
Evening Bob and Geoff, I certainly would not risk walking across the Solway apparently arunning horse could not beat the tidal surge. Any way I digress,need to find out more about this Robert and Rachel,it is early days. Who was his wife? when and where did he marry?. I cannot imagine how I can prove or not whether this Robert is an ancestor regards to you both stoop.
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Re: robert kerr and rachel
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 12 December 07 18:36 UTC (UK) »
Geoff,
I'm fairly sure there's a bridge to do that. Back in the sixties at the folk club we used to sing a song"Will they ever bridge the Humber, will they ever fill that gap, or will we always have go around by Goole".
stoop,
I think thats the normandy coast at St. Malo that has that reputation. The solway does have a reputation but thats for quick sands and back ebbs.
bob
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