Re: KERR in Pennsylvania - 1700s
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KERR in Pennsylvania - 1700s
Martha Murphy 4/06/12
I emailed you previously but I went to a cemetery to do a double take today on Wakefields I have been researching and turned around and went around to look at a large stone-it was for Mortons-I have been researching a Thomas Wakefield who married an Elizabeth Morton-the Wakefield-Thomas is their great-great-grandson so it is pretty strange to see a tombstone for my brick in the wall name Elizabeth Morton. Anyway I wrote down the names and did some research-you are looking for a Kerr-Margaret in Somerset, Washington Co., PA. The Morton's Noah and his wife Susannah are from Somerset, Washington County, PA! His father is Edward Morton-Somerset, Pa,whose father is Joseph Morton b 1766 Fulton co. PA whose father is Edward Morton b 1727 Inneskillen, Fermanough, Ireand who married Jane KERR born in 1731-same place as her husband and they do have a daughter named Margaret in the slot some say is for the mothers mother. I bet this Kerr is related to yours and believe this or not-the Wakefield grave for Thomas and Mary Hazlett have a dau Grace who married Eugene David Kerr-they are my husbands grandparents-deceased and there grave is in Lincoln, Ks. But I believe the Wakefields who were both born and had ancestors in PA & came to Kansas.In 1877-I bet Noah and Suannah Morton were part of the group that left PA for Kansas and like I said the Kerrs also left PA in 1877-by Kerrs I mean the Kerr that married a Wakefields-their son. The Kerrs were Eliza Jane Kerr and Henry Kerr I did a post for today-they came to Kansas in 1877 from PA.I got disappointed because it is a Kerr that married a Edward Morton but think about it- a definite Kerr in that area! And you know the county in PA now!
Thanks for your post again, Cindy