"sero sed serio" A number of families with the surname Carr would settle in Virginia in the eighteenth century. The presence of families with the name Carr have been documented in the Gloucester-Middlesex-Mathews Peninsula area of Virginia. Carrs were also present in Alexandria and Northern Virginia, Central Virginia and Southwestern Virginia prior to the Revolutionary War. Among the Carr’s that settled in Virginia in the 1700's were the predecesors of George Miller Carr (1822 Alabama). It is believed that George's parents were born in Virginia around 1773 or 1774. Thus, it was most likely George's grandfather that originally stepped off the boat that brought him across the Atlantic. In Colonial times, the term Scots-Irish was used to describe someone of Scottish descent that had immigrated to America from Ireland. Essentially, this means that someone of Scottish descent migrated from Scotland to Ireland and then migrated to America. It may also mean that the original Scottish immigrant in Ireland was several generations earlier than the generation that migrated to America. None-the-less, they were of Scottish origin. Although some of the Kerr/Carr ancestors were Catholics, the vast majority were Protestant and comprised a portion of the Protestant faction in Northern Ireland. More on the Carr Family.