Francis Kerr

[foggop]

Hi
   Francis Ker widower aged 60 married ( seconed wife ) Susan Kirk aged 33
on 27/05/1927. I know they had a family how can i find out when they were born, and if they are still alive and living in Dumfriesshire, or if any of their family
are still in the Dumfries area.  Francis was born 08/01/1867 St Mungo 1st wife Harries Duff married on 25/11/1885 Harries died 1915. Francis died 14/08/1937 aged 70 at Kirk houses Holywood, Robert Kerr son by 1st wife signed death certificate.  I belive
Francis had two children by his 2nd wife Susan.
                                                    Shirley
                                       

[mosstrooper]

Shirley,
             There are no online records inside 100 years, the only way to find out is by visiting Register House in Edinburgh, or finding someone who is going there and will do a lookup. You never know on this board, you may be lucky.

James Kerr

[julieann1]

Do you  know where they got married? Or lived? Or have any other addresses/place names connected with the family.  I am researching the same period in Dumfriesshire and got lucky by googling all the house names I knew. One of them was still owned by the family, who gave me lots of info, and another person was able to tell me who had lived in her house in the 1920's.
Also the Dumfries ad Galloway Family History Society has directories from the 1920's, if you can find someone kind enough to look up for you.
G00d luck

[runningbear]

hi shirley,

if your francis was 60 when he married in 1927 that makes his birth around 1870,

best i can see at present is....

1901 census- tower street, old cumnock, ayrshire

francis...age 30...coal miner...born dumfries c1871
elizabeth..age 34...born dumfries c1876
bessie...age 9
mary...age 7
francis...age 3

children all born cumnock


Joe

[runningbear]

hi shirley,

see a 7 year old susan kirk with parents thomas and sarah, on the 1901 census.

maybe have a wee search for a thomas kerr and a sarah kerr born between 1927-1935

Joe

[runningbear]

hi shirley,

i would also suggest that you visit www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and try and get the death cert for you francis as the deaths go to 1956, i certainly do not see him living past 1950, and that will give his last known address


Joe

[sarahcurrie]

hi, i am not related to susan kirk but his first marrige harris bell,  francis kerr was my great great grandfather,

[foggop]

Hi Sarah
   Can you email me

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look's like we are from the same branch of the tree, my grand mother was Isablla Fraser Kerr the youngest child of Frances and Harries.
                                  Shirley