Andrew KERR (1386-1481)
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Andrew KERR (1386-1481) Knight of the Shire of Auldtounburn and Cessford &
Lady Margaret TWEEDIE (1397–1440)
LINTON & BIRD Common Ancestors
Terry Louis Linton © 2016
Linton Research Fund Inc., © 2016
LINTON & BIRD Chronicles Volume XVIV, Issue 1, Spring © 2024, ISSN 1941-3521
Andrew KERR (1386-1481) Knight of the Shire of Auldtounburn and Cessford and Lady Margaret TWEEDIE (1397–?) were our common ancestors among our Linton & Bird Families. Andrew was the 14th great-grandfather of Kirk Louis LINTON (1914-1987) and the 14th great-grandfather of Evelyn Virginia BIRD Linton (1922-2012).
The Kerr name meaning, according to the Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006: Kerr English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh or swampy woodland, Middle English kerr ‘brushwood, wet ground’ (Old Norse kjarr). A legend grew up that the Kerrs were left-handed, on theory that the name is derived from Gaelic cearr ‘wrong-handed, left-handed’. Irish: variant of Carr . Americanized form of German Kehr or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
Andrew KERR (1386–1481) was the son of Andrew KERR I (1356–1398) & Jean CRICHTON (1357–1399). Andrew II was born in 1386, in Kershaugh, Roxburghshire, Scotland. In 1405, King Robert III (1337-1406), Andrew’s cousin, knighted Andrew, during the Scottish Border Wars.
Andrew married Lady Margaret TWEEDIE (1397–1440) in 1414 in Roxburghshire, Scotland. Margaret was the daughter of James TWEEDIE (1370–1473) 5th Baron Drumelzier Tweedie of Tuedy & Katherine de CAVERHILLE (1403–?). Margaret was born in 1397 in Crighton, Midlothian, Scotland and died in 1440, Kershaugh, Roxburghshire, Scotland.
Sir knight Andrew KERR built his stronghold, Cessford Castle around 1450.
Andrew was Knight of the Shire of Auldtounburn and Cessford. Knight of the shire was the formal title for a member of parliament (MP) representing a county constituency in the British House of Commons, from its origins in the medieval Parliament of England.
Andrew & Margaret had one known child:
Thomas KERR (1430–1484) Knight of the Shire for Smailholm & Ferniehirst.
Andrew later married Mary Herries (1422–1492) in 1444 in Cessford, Roxburghshire, Scotland. Mary was born in 1422 in Irkcudbright, Dumfriesshire, Scotland and died in 1492 in Cessford, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Andrew died on May 8, 1481, age 95, at Cessford Castle, Newton St Boswells, Roxburghshire, Scotland.
Andrew KERR (1386-1481) Knight of the Shire of Auldtounburn and Cessford, built his stronghold, Cessford Castle around 1450. The fortalice was built on an L-plan, with a main keep with a wing of almost the same magnitude. With up to six stores, two of which were barrel vaulted, and with walls up to 13 feet (4.0 m) thick, it was a formidable place of defense. The angle of the building was enclosed by a single-story defensive gatehouse, and the whole was surrounded by a barmekin and defensive earthworks.
Cessford Castle
Terry Louis Linton
Wikipedia contributor
Andrew KERR built his stronghold, Cessford Castle around 1450. According to Wikipedia the free encyclopedia, Cessford Castle is caput of the Barony of Cessford, and the principal stronghold of the Kers/Kerrs, notorious Border Reivers, many of whom served as Wardens of the Middle March. Cessford Castle is a large ruined mid-15th century L-plan castle near the village of Cessford, midway Jedburgh, Linton and Kelso, in the historic county of Roxburghshire, now a division of the Scottish Borders. The placename Cessford is from Gaelic 'ceis' and means 'the wattled causeway over the ford'.
Cessford Castle was built around 1450 by Andrew Ker, an ancestor of Robert Ker, 1st Earl of Roxburghe, and of the Dukes of Roxburghe. It is from this place that the Duke takes his subsidiary titles: Baron Ker of Cessford, and Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford. It is possible that the castle incorporates parts of an earlier structure. The fortalice was built on an L-plan, with a main keep with a wing of almost the same magnitude. With up to six stores, two of which were barrel vaulted, and with walls up to 13 feet (4.0 m) thick, it was a formidable place of defense. The angle of the building was enclosed by a single-story defensive gatehouse, and the whole was surrounded by a barmekin and defensive earthworks, a fact that is corroborated by the record of English troops having to use an escalade to gain access to the castle courtyard during the siege of 1523. The castle was besieged in 1523 by the Earl of Surrey who remarked: "It might never have been taken had the assailed been able to go on defending".[1] The castle was abandoned in 1650.
Historical incidents
After Berwick upon Tweed was captured by Richard, Duke of Gloucester in July 1482, Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland burnt several places in the area. At the end of his campaign, on 22 August 1482 he knighted twenty of his soldiers at the "mains of Sessford."
Andrew KERR (1386-1481) Knight of the Shire of Auldtounburn and Cessford, built his stronghold, Cessford Castle around 1450. Cessford Castle is a large ruined mid-15th century L-plan castle near the village of Cessford, midway Jedburgh, Linton and Kelso, in the historic county of Roxburghshire, now a division of the Scottish Borders.
Andrew KERR (1386-1481) Knight of the Shire of Auldtounburn and Cessford and Lady Margaret TWEEDIE (1397–?)
our common ancestors among our Linton & Bird Families.
Andrew was the 14th great-grandfather of Kirk Louis LINTON (1914-1987) and the 14th great-grandfather of Evelyn Virginia BIRD Linton (1922-2012).
Linton Direct Ancestral linage:
14th great-grandparents
Andrew KERR (1386-1481) Knight of the Shire of Auldtounburn and Cessford &
Lady Margaret TWEEDIE (1397–1440)
Children:
Thomas KERR (1430-1484)
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13th great-grandparents
Thomas KERR (1430-1484) Knight of the Shire for Smailholm & Ferniehirst &
Lady Cessford Margaret DOUGLAS (1425–1484)
Children:
Thomas KERR (1450–1484)
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12th great-grandparents
Thomas KERR (1450-1484) Sir knight &
Catherine COVILLE (1450–1484) Heiress
Children:
Andrew KERR (1471–1545) Baron of Ferniehurst; Margaret KERR (1474–1484)
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11th great-grandparents
Andrew KERR (1471-1545) Baron of Ferniehurst &
Janet HOME (1475–1543)
Children:
Janet KERR (1494–1546); John KERR (1500–1562); Thomas KERR (1502–1524); Elizabeth KERR (1503–?); Caterine KERR (1504–1548); Christian KERR (1507–1558); Margaret KERR (1508–1585); Walter KARR (1510–1581); Isabel KERR (1515–1585); Mark KERR (1516–1584); Robert KERR (1518–1588)
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10th great-grandparents
Walter KARR (1510-1581) Lord van Cessford &
“Isabel” Isabelle CESSFORD (1515–1585) Lady Cessford
Children:
Margaretha “Margaret” KARR 1535–1589) Lady Fermiehurst, Countess Kerr; Walter Cessford KARR (1543–1601) Lord Kerr van Cessford; Willem KERR (1545-? Lord van Cessford.
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9th great-grandparents
Margaretha “Margaret” KARR (1535-1589) Lady Ferniehurst, Countess Kerr &
Walter LINTON (1533–1633) Earl of Traquair, Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
Children:
John LINTON (1560–1632) Baron Caberston; Arthur LINTON (1562–1646) Lord
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8th great-grandparents
John LINTON (1560-1632) Baron Caberston & Rebecca CABERSTON (1565-1634)
Children:
Arthur LINTON (1590–1646); Thomas LINTON (1592–1653); Robert LINTON (1600–1674)
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7th great-grandparents
Arthur LINTON (1590-1646) Baron of Caberston & Isabella CURRIE (1592–1662)
children:
Arthur LINTON (1614-1662) & John LINTON (1616-?)
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6th great-grandparents
Arthur LINTON (1622-1696) Baron Lowe Crosby & Elizabeth KIRKBRIDE (1622–1670)
children:
Roger LINTON (1641–1715); Arthur LINTON (1648–1708); John LINTON (1650–1709); Thomas LINTON (1660–?)
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5th great-grandparents
Roger LINTON (1641-1715) Baron & Dorothy NEWBERGH (1641-1681)
children:
Sir Knight Roger LINTON (1660–1753) physician; James LINTON (1661–1730); John LINTON (1662–1709) emigrate; Benjamin LINTON (1664–1709) emigrant; David LINTON (1665–1739) emigrant; Anne LINTON (1667–?); Jacob LINTON (1670–1709) emigrant; Samuel LINTON (1675–1753) emigrant.
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4th great-grandparents
John LINTON (1662-1709) & Rebecca RELF (1672-1714)
Quaker emigrants
children:
Sarah LINTON (1692-1692); Anna LINTON (1694-1699); Mary LINTON Blackshaw (1695-1769); Joseph LINTON (1697–1747); Benjamin LINTON (1703-1773); John LINTON (1706-1761)
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3rd great-grandparents
Isaiah LINTON (1739-1775) master millwright & Sarah HIRST (1742-1823)
children:
Laura Ellicott LINTON (1766-1825); Thomas LINTON (1768-1829); James LINTON (1764-1854); William LINTON (1772-1848); Sarah LINTON (1774-1817)
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2nd great-grandparents
James LINTON (1769-1854) & Ann CROASDALE (1776-1852)
children:
George Croasdale LINTON (1802-1863); Lewis Colbert LINTON (1803-1876); Maurice Peter LINTON (1807-1872); Robert Henry LINTON (1809-1884); James LINTON, Jr. (1812 ?); Ann Croasdale LINTON (1815-1895); Deborah Caroline LINTON Ridge (1819-1894); Jeremiah Croasdale LINTON (1821- ?)
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great-grandparents
Doctor Lewis Colbert LINTON (1803-1876) & Sarah KOCHER (1810-1870)
children:
Mary Ann LINTON Jenkins (1828-1876); Emma Caroline LINTON Mendler Smith (1829-1909) ; Harriet LINTON Fuller King (1831-1912); Deborah Caroline LINTON Fowler (1834-1916); John Edward LINTON (1838-1901); Jerome D. LINTON (1839-1910); Francis "Frank" Charles LINTON (1844-1911); Morris LINTON (1848-1860)
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Grandparents
John Edward LINTON (1838-1901) & Sallie Fenmor STONESTREET (1861-1928)
children:
Charles Edward LINTON (1890-1958)
& half-brother George Whippoorwill Stonestreet PHILLIPS (1904-1969)
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Parents
Charles Edward LINTON (1890-1958) & Annie Lucretia CRONK (1888-1956)
children:
John Edward Charles LINTON (1910-1911); Florence Avis LINTON Beavers (1912-1990); Kirk Louis LINTON (1914-1987); Georganna LINTON (1916-1916); Theodore "Ted" Francis LINTON (1917-1970); Bernadette "Bernie" Thelma LINTON Butler (1921-2014); Madeline "Madge" Elizabeth LINTON Bly (1922-1991)
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Kirk Louis LINTON (1914-1987) & Evelyn Virginia BIRD (1922-2012)
children
Kenneth "Ken" Edward LINTON (1945) & Terry Louis LINTON (1949)
KERR Family Coat of Arms copyright House of Names: Andrew KERR (1386–1481) was the son of Andrew KERR I (1356–1398) & Jean CRICHTON (1357–1399). Andrew II was born in 1386, in Kershaugh, Roxburghshire, Scotland. In 1405, King Robert III (1337-1406), Andrew’s cousin, knighted Andrew, during the Scottish Border Wars.
Arial view of Cessford Castle: Andrew KERR (1386-1481) Knight of the Shire of Auldtounburn and Cessford, built his stronghold, Cessford Castle around 1450. Cessford Castle is a large ruined mid-15th century L-plan castle near the village of Cessford, midway Jedburgh, Linton and Kelso, in the historic county of Roxburghshire, now a division of the Scottish Borders.
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