The Cochrane & Allied Families
Cochranes from Scotland to Colonial Virginia (c 1760), to Kentucky (1811), to Kansas (1859) and beyond. Allied families to the United States from England, Scotland, Ireland and Switzerland.
CARR, Thomas Sr.
1646 - 1711 (65 years) Has no ancestors but more than 100 descendants in this family tree.
1654 - 1745 (91 years)-
Name CARR, Thomas [1, 2] Suffix Sr. Birth 13 Mar 1645/46 Wath upon Dearne, Yorkshire, England 
[3] Gender Male Land 24 Apr 1701 King and Queen County, Colony of Virginia, England [1, 2] he received in a land grants in St. John's Parish, among them 546 acres in Pamunkey Neck - Received for transporting 11 people into the Colony.
Appointed 1702 King William County, Colony of Virginia, England [2] a Justice Appointed Between 1708 and 1709 King William County, Colony of Virginia, UK [1, 2] Sherriff FindaGrave Memorial ID 81594167 Death Nov 1711 King William County, Colony of Virginia, UK [1, 3] Age 65 years Burial Topping Castle Cemetery, Houstons Corner, Caroline, Virginia, USA [3] Address:
Topping Castle Cemetery
Houstons Corner, Virginia
USA- Find A Grave website (http://www.findagrave.com/): Memorial #81594167.
Person ID I5828 Cochrane Genealogy Last Modified 17 Aug 2025
Family GARLAND, Lucy Mary, b. 1654, Boston, The Colony of Massachusetts Bay, England d. 1745, Spotsylvania County, Colony of Virginia, UK (Age 91 years) Marriage Y [1, 4] Children 1. CARR, Robert, b. England d. Colony of Virginia, England 2. CARR, John, b. England d. Colony of Virginia, England 3. CARR, William d. Yes, date unknown+ 4. CARR, Major Thomas Jr., b. 1678, England d. 29 May 1738, Caroline County, Colony of Virginia, UK (Age 60 years)Family ID F2276 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 30 Apr 2021
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Notes - (Research):Thomas Carr (1679-1736), Meriwether Database ID: I20614
Issue 1: Prefix/Suffix - In land transactions in the early 1700s there are references to Jr., Captain and Major. I think these are all for this Thomas.
Issue 2: Parents - Most sources have his father as also named Thomas (1646-1711), and his mother as a Miss Garland, being born and married in England, and emigrating to VA. But some have Miss Garland being born in Boston, MA and marrying in VA, even though most sources have Thomas the son (I20614) born in England. I haven't found mention of 2 wives for the father.
Issue 3: Siblings - Sources have varying combinations of the following: Robert, John and William. Some sources have William as a son of Thomas (I20616) as does our database, instead of a sibling.
Issue 4: Wife - Sources are split between Mary Dabney (I20615), daughter of Cornelius Dabney and either Edith ____ or Susanne ____, or his wife being a Mary Garland.
Issue 5: Children - Most sources list Thomas (1705-1738) (marriage?), Col. John (1706-1778) (see below), Agnes (1712-1777) (married John Waller III) and Sarah (1714-1772) (married John Minor Jr.). Our database lists John, William, Thomas and Sarah.
John Carr (1706-1778), Meriwether Database ID: I12141
Col. John Carr's second wife was Barbara Overton (ID: I13606). They married in 1737. One of their sons, Dabney Carr (1743-1773) (ID: I13607), married Martha Jefferson, sister of Thomas Jefferson.
Issue: First Wife - Sources are split between Mary Garland (ID: I20618), and a Mary Dabney. Most say there was one son, yet another Thomas, born in 1735 at the same time the wife died.
- (Research):Thomas Carr (1679-1736), Meriwether Database ID: I20614
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Event Map 
Birth - 13 Mar 1645/46 - Wath upon Dearne, Yorkshire, England 
Land - he received in a land grants in St. John's Parish, among them 546 acres in Pamunkey Neck - 24 Apr 1701 - King and Queen County, Colony of Virginia, England 
Appointed - a Justice - 1702 - King William County, Colony of Virginia, England 
Appointed - Sherriff - Between 1708 and 1709 - King William County, Colony of Virginia, UK Death - Nov 1711 - King William County, Colony of Virginia, UK 
Burial - Address:
Topping Castle Cemetery
Houstons Corner, Virginia
USA - - Topping Castle Cemetery, Houstons Corner, Caroline, Virginia, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Sources - [S491] Magazine - VA Magazine of History & Biography (JSTOR), 11 Mar 2021, W. G. Standard, "Library of Dabney Carr, 1773, with a Notice of the Carr Family," Oct 1894, Vol. 2, No. 2, p 221-228; digital images, Jstor (www.jstor.org : accessed 11 March 2021).
VA Magazine of History & Biography, Vol. 2, p 221-228 - [S1164] Magazine - William and Mary College Quarterly - Series 1 & 2 (JSTOR), 14 May 2021, Col. Wilaon Miles Cary, "Carr Family," Series 1, Vol. 8, No. 2, Oct. 1899, 106-108; digital images, Jstor (https://www.jstor.org/ : accessed 14 May 2021).
Williama & Mary Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 2 - [S141] Cemetery Records - Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com: n.d.), 30 Apr 2021, accessed 30 April 2021<, Thomas Carr Sr., Memorial #81594167.
- [S141] Cemetery Records - Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com: n.d.), 30 Apr 2021, accessed 30 April 2021<, Lucy Mary Garland Carr, Memorial #81594260.
- [S491] Magazine - VA Magazine of History & Biography (JSTOR), 11 Mar 2021, W. G. Standard, "Library of Dabney Carr, 1773, with a Notice of the Carr Family," Oct 1894, Vol. 2, No. 2, p 221-228; digital images, Jstor (www.jstor.org : accessed 11 March 2021).