William Carr, Esq., of Ford Castle

Sir Knight Robert William Carr 1ot Baron of Fennehurst

According to Smart (p. 109), his "succession was fiercely disputed by the Heron family in 1557, when Giles Heron, Treasurer of Berwick, to whose daughter William was betrothed, was slain in the affray at Ford; at this time the Ped., Crest, and Arms of Carr, were entered into the Herald's Coll."

Marriage & Family

He married Ursula Brandling of Newcastle, daughter of Henry Brandling, will proved January 19, 1578-9. Together, they had three sons and five daughters:

• Thomas Carr, High Sheriff -- b. August 1, 1577, d. August 4, 1641
• William of Eshot
• Henry
• Dorothy
• Margaret
• Elizabeth
• Jane
• Ellinor

All other wives and children are not documented and therefore possibly apocryphal.

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Thomas Carr (1577 - 1641)

Thomas Carr
Born 1 Aug 1577 in Ford, Northumberland, England.map
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of William Carr Esq and Ursula (Brandling) Carr
Brother of Dorthy Carr, Eleanore Carr, Henry Carr, Jane (Carr) Forster and Elizabeth Carr
Husband of Isabelle (Selby) Carr — married 15 Jan 1598 in Berwick Upon Tweed, Northumberland, Englandmap
Husband of Jane (Unknown) Carr — married after 1609 in Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, Englandmap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Peregrine Carr, Elizabeth Carr, William Carr, Susannah Carr and John Carr
Died 4 Aug 1641 at age 64 in Ford, Northumberland, England.map
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This profile is part of the Carr Name Study.
Thomas Carr of Ford Castle[1], Marden, Crookham, Eshot, Cornhill, Flodden Hill, etc., eldest son of William Carr, and Ursula his wife, was born on I August 1577 and succeeded to the family estates on the death of his father, January 1, 1589, when only twelve years of age. Thomas Carr, being thus an orphan, must have remained under the care of his guardian Lord Hunsdon until the death of the latter; while his younger brother and sisters were under the charge of their uncle Ralph Carr, of Howburn. Their father, having the bitter experience of his own minority in mind, and with the knowledge that Dame Margaret Heron, his great grandmother was still alive, did well to provide for the protection of his young family by placing the heir under the guardianship of the Queen's cousin-german, the Lord Warden of the Marches. And, as it is known that his guardian, Henry, Lord Hunsdon, died two years before Thomas Carr attained his majority, he would probably pass to the guardianship of George, Lord Hunsdon, K.G., who, for the last years of the Queen's reign,[2] held the office of Lord Chamberlain of her Household.

Thomas Carr and his brothers would thus be brought early to the notice of two other members of the Cary family, Sir John, who was third Lord Hunsdon, Marshal of Berwick, and Warden of the East Marches at the accession of James I and Sir Robert, later Baron Leppington, and Earl of Monmouth, and Warden of the Middle March, at the same time, Lessee (under the Crown) of Norham and Holy Island and who played so prominent a part in introducing King James to his new dominions. It was he, Sir Robert, who was specially chosen by Queen Elizabeth to convey to King James her letter of self-reproach and remorse concerning the execution of his mother, Queen Mary. At the time when these momentous events were passing on either side the Border, the Laird of Ford Castle would be in his twenty-fifth year and it is not unlikely that, like many Borderers of both kingdoms, he took advantage of Lord Hunsdon's influential position at Court to accompany the royal cortege to London, or he went thither in his capacity of Gentleman of the Privy Chamber

to the King. This conjecture illustrates the belief that, while the annals of Northumberland are silent regarding him, he is shewn in the sequel to have contracted habits of reckless extravagance, which he may well be supposed to have acquired at the metropolis. He was at a later date certainly with the Court for in the grant of denization, made to his second wife Jane, he is styled " Gentleman of the Privy Chamber".
Quoting[3]

Sources

↑ Ford Castle
↑ Mary Queen of Scots
↑ The History of The Carr Family Vol 11 Authors; Col Ralph Edward Carr & Cuthbert Ellison Carr with Assistance by Rev Gregory Smart . Publishers; Mitchell & Hughes, London 1894. Page # 118. Chapter V.
See Also:
The Genealogist A Quarterly Magazine of Genealogical, Antiquarian Topographical and Heareldic Research. Editor; Keith W Murray. Article by; Walter B Thomas. Publishers; George Bell & Sons, York Street, Convent Garden, London. 1890. Pages # 87 to 91.
Genealogy of the descendants of the Prichards, formerly lords of Llanover, Monmouthshire, with an appendix of the pedigrees of the houses, with which that family intermarried Author; Rev Thomas Gregory Smart. Publisher; J H Meyers, 1868. Page 109 '#40
England Marriages, 1538–1973 index, FamilySearch, Thomas Carr and Isbell Selbey, 15 Jan 1598; citing Berwick Upon Tweed,Northumberland,England, reference ; FHL microfilm 94987.

Foster, J. (1891). The Royal Lineage of Our Noble and Gentle Families, (pp.860) < GoogleBooks>

Sources

• Smart, Thomas Gregory. Genealogy of the Descendants of the Prichards. Oxford: Oxford University, 1868. Digitized for Google Books, June 23, 2006.
• page 860 of The Royal Lineage of Our Noble and Gentle Families (principally Devonians) ...
• "Carr of Ford" in A history of Northumberland. issued under the direction of the Northumberland county history committee. (pub 1893)