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Chapter (3)
I,	Hugh Turner Carr, b.1896, will try in the following pages to answer the questions, who were my ancestors, where they came from, and where they lived and died. I hope that these pages will be of some help to my decendants to continue their family histories. Ample blank pages are left for this purpose.
In Scotland, surnames did not become hereditary until the eleventh to fourteenth centuries, the custom being gradually adopted during this period. For this reason it is impossible to trace a surname from one generation to another. I find that the surname "Carr" in Southern Scotland was spelled some twenty different ways, from "Ker" to"Carre". It seems that most of the Carr's living along the border of Scotland and England spelled their name "Carr". It was the Carr's and other border clans who stopped the Roman Envasion at the border of Scotland. I find the following about these clans, "Scotland was born fighting, scrappy as their terriers, Scots fought the Romans, the English, one another and their land". It was from this area that Wvnj-mv Thomas
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VI find the first mention of the name Carr, from along the border of Scotland and England; one was Johannes Carr, from near the town of Pebles, in the year 1192; a William Carr in the year 1205; a Thomas Carr in the year 1264; a John Carr in the year 1357; another John Carr in the year 1432; a Walter Carr in the year 16 86. I am unable to trace any of these Carr's from father to son, but the name Thomas and John Carr is found more often than any other.
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Family tradition as told to me, says that -MagxJE Thomas Carr, rj b-rt6'T8^d'>1738, came to Virginia, *abuu L_17CT0 from along the border of Scotland and England, and that he brought with him a grant from the King of England; "To my faithful friend Mayor Thomas Carr, b ten thousand acres of land in our colony of Virginia".	^	/
A very interesting story is told about the border Carr's, that they were all left-handed, and to be called "Carr-Handed" meant that you were left handed.