The Cdrr home, one of the oldest houses in Stanhope. Ray Carr coll.

is a family tradition that the first Stanhope Carr to arrive on the Island was the son of an aristocratic English family who had dis- graced himself by marrying a family maid, and who was disinherited and banished to the colonies. We have found no record of whence in England this settler came: William Carr is the first member of this family to be heard of in Stanhope. He was married on November 11, 1833 to Elizabeth Lawson (b. 1807, d. 27 Nov., 1886) the daughter of James Lawson of Stanhope; and in June, 1834 he leased 50 acres of land in the Covehead West area from James Montgomery. William was 70 in the 1881 census, so presumably was born about 181 1. He had a brother Ralph, aged 56 in 1881, born about 1825, who was married at Cove Head on December 21, 1843 by David Higgins J .P. to Ellen Brown, born about 1825, the daughter of John and Isabella (Lawson) Brown. They had two daughters, Mary Ann who married Robert Marshall, and Matilda who married James Brodie. It is possible that Ralph Carr was married twice; the 1881 census gives his wife’s name as Catherine, aged 26, and in the household, besides Mary Ann, aged 24, and Matilda, aged 23, there are two younger children, John 9 and

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