According to early Land Petitions of Upper Canada, Samuel Kerr sr arrived 9 June 1818 from County Armagh to York (now Toronto), with his unnamed wife, sons Samuel jr and John, and 3 children under 18. All three men: Samuel sr, Samuel jr and John were literate and could sign their names. There is no comment in the Petition that any of them were discharged soldiers.
[My theory: one of those children was my 3xgreat grandfather also named Samuel, family lore says was the son of another Samuel - who would have been Samuel jr.]
On his petition, Samuel Sr intended to farm, but the location granted is unknown. It would have been somewhere in what would become southern Ontario, and likely where Samuel Sr died and was buried.
In 1840 Widow Kerr has Tax assessment on 90 Acres Conc 7 Lot 3 East Flamborough Twp. Wentworth County, on the west side of Waterdown. If this was the widow of Samuel sr, she could not own the property if either of her sons were still alive.
My 3x great grandfather Samuel Kerr was born in Ireland about 1814, and appears in the 1843 Tax Assessment on 1/4 acre town lot in Waterdown, part of the same property taxed to the Widow Kerr three years earlier. He was already married about 1842 to Margaret, the daughter of Robert Earl and Ann Hunt, whose their family had emigrated from Ireland about 1821, settling in nearby Beverly Township, Wentworth County.
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| Date of Birth | 1st Jan 1765 (circa) | |
