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From: "Sandra Harris" <>
Subject: Re: Request for Information about Carr Family - Early 1900's San Francisco
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:49:33 -0700


Beth, I am not too sure what to check for you. Have you looked at the 1900
census for Aunt Mary and her family?
I can try to check the SF city directory for your CARRs but without a first
name I don't know exactly what I will find.
I am also confused about the surname - is it CARR or KERR?

Sandra

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Date: Monday, April 26, 1999 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: Request for Information about Carr Family - Early 1900's

>Sandra,
> Thank you for your kind
>response. My Aunt Mary Misdom Carr had at least one child who died in the
San
>Francisco earthquake of 1906. According to a letter dated 1903, they lived
in
>Vallejo, California. Her husband worked at the Mare Island Naval Base in
>Vallejo as well.
> Checking a list of thase killed in the
>earthquake, a William Carr who lived on Ellis Street in San Francisco, died
>in the earthquake. I do not know the first names of Mary's children nor her
>husband's. But looking at a map, I see that Vallejo and San Francisco are
>very close to each other. I thought that William Carr may be one of Mary's
>children and they might have been living in San Francisco in 1906. I
thought
>by checking directories for Vallejo for 1903 and San Francisco for 1906,I
>could attempt to make a connection between the Carr Family in Vallejo and
>William Kerr who died in the earthquake. I could check census records as
well
>death certificates if i had more information.
> I greatly appreciate any help you can offer. I
>live in Long Island and am a little bit of a loss in in California. Thank
you
>so much.
> Beth McLoughlin
>

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