?????? ill M.....%......:,:;:::.:.:: ??? *jiSP^^ E 'J lliii" :L/Iilli mm si; a, is The Carr home, one of the oldest houses in Stanhope . Ray Carr coll. is a family tradition that the first 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 1811. He had a brother Ralph, aged 56 in 1881, born about 1825, who was married at 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 296