Hello,
I just signed on to this website. My mother was Edna Kerr, daughter of Amos Kerr. Amos, as you probably know was a son of Samuel Kerr who married Lena Graham. My mother's family was very interested in their ancestors and they passed on that interest to the next two generations. My mother's brother wrote a mini book on the history of the family. I have quite a lot of info about the Kerr's back to Patrick Kerr arriving from Ireland. You probably can fill in some blanks for me and me for you! I would like to know about the American branch of the Kerrs.
Please get in touch.

I spent all of my childhood summers at the Kerr farm in Lakefield. I have photos of Kerr's Farm (both before and after it was added on to become a summer hotel). I have Samuel and Lena Kerr's wedding photo. And other family photos.....lots. Lena's father was Francis Graham and her mother Sarah Johnson, buried right near the door to the church in Lakefield.
Here is a short story of how Lena Graham came to Canada, written by my mother's cousin. ......
."Lena Graham was born "on the high seas" in 1860 or so.
Her father had already come out to Canada the previous fall/summer,
and her mother was VERY anxious to join him here, but of course, could
not sail in the winter. So she booked the first ship leaving Ireland in the
Spring, and along with her two little boys, she boarded; she was a midwife,
and knew she was pregnant, and probably figured that she MIGHT deliver
on the Atlantic. But my mother told me that this woman, her g'mother, was
one of the most forceful people you could meet, and when she had made the
decision to come on the first ship of the season, that was it!
The seas were not smooth, and she did have her baby girl on the Atlantic,(on or
about the 24th of April) She was the only woman on the ship, and the help she had,
came from the captain.
Now that baby became "Tiny" Grandma,! She was called "tiny" I believe, because there were two
grandmas in the house,-Amos Kerr's' wife, Pearl, and then great grandmother Lena,
who had married Samuel Kerr. Pearl was much taller than Lena, so she was Grandma,
and Lena was Tiny Grandma to her great grandchildren. Being born on the high seas,
did not hold her back or weaken her; she had a very fruitful life. I cannot imagine the
number of socks and mitts she knit, and she and Sam had five daughters and one son.
Sheila, in Montreal