Robert Kerr

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Robert Kerr of Newfield, of Newfield

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Newfield, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Death: 1768 (60-61)
Newfield, Scotland, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Son of Lord Charles Kerr and Janet Kerr
Husband of Eleanora Nugent
Father of Katherine Kerr and Eleanora Campbell
Brother of Jean Janet Kerr, Marquess of Lothian

Occupation: Director of the Chancery in Scotland.
Managed by: Erskine Stuart Richard Guinness
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About Robert Kerr

Robert Kerr of Newfield was the son of Lord Charles Kerr and Janet Murray. He married Eleanora Nugent, daughter of Captain Lawrence Nugent of Newfield and Catherine Kennedy.

Darryl Roger LUNDY

  • Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904), volume V, page 477.
  • H. Pirie-Gordon, editor, Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th edition, (London, England: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1937), page 340.
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Robert Kerr's Timeline

1707
August 30, 1707
Cramond, Midlothian, Scotland, UK
1707
Newfield, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
1742
1742
Edinburgh
1750
1750
1768
1768
Age 61
Newfield, Scotland, United Kingdom