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)

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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

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 14^th great-grandfather of Kirk Louis LINTON (1914-1987) and the 14^th 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) 5^th 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 14^th great-grandfather of Kirk Louis LINTON (1914-1987) and the 14^th great-grandfather of Evelyn Virginia BIRD Linton (1922-2012).

Linton Direct Ancestral linage:

14^th great-grandparents

Andrew KERR (1386-1481) Knight of the Shire of Auldtounburn and Cessford &

Lady Margaret TWEEDIE (1397–1440)

Children:

Thomas KERR (1430-1484)

13^th great-grandparents

Thomas KERR (1430-1484) Knight of the Shire for Smailholm & Ferniehirst &

Lady Cessford Margaret DOUGLAS (1425–1484)

Children:

Thomas KERR (1450–1484)

12^th 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)

11^th 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)

10^th 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.

9^th 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

8^th 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)

7^th great-grandparents

Arthur LINTON (1590-1646) Baron of Caberston & Isabella CURRIE (1592–1662)

children:

Arthur LINTON (1614-1662) & John LINTON (1616-?)

6^th 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–?)

5^th 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.

4^th 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)

3^rd 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)

2^nd 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- ?)

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)

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)

Parents

Charles Edward LINTON (1890-1958) & Annie Lucretia CRONK (1888-1956)

children: