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Descendants of WILLIAM ERSKINE MARRS

Generation No. 1

1. WILLIAM ERSKINE¹ MARRS was born in SCOTTLAND, and died in LITTLE YORK, PENNSYLVANIA. He married MUNDAY.

Notes for WILLIAM ERSKINE MARRS:
WILLIAM CAME TO AMERICA IN 1720.
!RECORDS: GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF WASHINGTON DC.#3007" WILLIAM ERSKINE MARRS OF
SCOTLAND YOUNGEST SON OF ONE OF THE EARS OF MAR CAME TO THE COLONIES SAILING
FROM THE PORT OF BRISTOL ENGLAND TO ESCAPE PUNISHMENT . HE RAISED THREE SONS
HENRY MUNDAY, SAMUEL AND BARNABUS. WHILE IN SCOTLAND HE LIVED IN THE ROYAL
CASTLE OF BALMORAL, LOCATED IN THE MAR DISTRICT OF SCOTLAND."
!RECORDS: HISTORY OF SHELBY CO OHIO: " ABOUT THE YEAR 1720 WILLIAM ERSKINE
MARR, A NOBLE MAN FROM SCOTLAND EMIGRATED TO AMERICA IN ORDER TO AVOID BEING
PUT TO DEATH OF SEVERE TORTURE AS A RELIGIOUS HERECTIC."
!RECORDS: MARRS FAMILY BIBLE, PRINTED EDINBURGH SCOTLAND IN THE YEAR 1725 BY
ALEXANDER KINCAID HIS MAJESTYS PRINTER AND BY HGIS SPECAL COMMAND TO BE READ
IN THE CHURCHES.
!RECORDS: ROGER MARRS, BY STONE ' THE YOUNGEST SON OF THE EARL OF MAR CAME TO
AMERICA FROM BRISTOL ENGLAND AND TOOK THE NAME OF MARRS.
!RECORDS: ABRIDGED COMPENDIUM OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY VOL II 1826 P 398 AN ENTRY;
ERSKINE EARL OF MAR OF SCOTLAND CAME FROM SCOTLAND TO ABINGDON MASS 1725...

Notes for MUNDAY:
!RECORDS: ERSKINE/MARRS JEEN LEEPER 1997, PAGE 33.

Children of WILLIAM MARRS and MUNDAY are:

2.	i.	SAMUEL² MARRS, b. December 01, 1740, YORK CO., PA.; d. December 27, 1817, JESSAMINE CO., KENTUCKY.
3.	ii.	HENRY MUNDAY MARRS, b. Abt. 1745, LITTLE YORK, PENNSYLVANIA; d. Bef. 1824, SHAWNNE RUN, MERCER CO, KENTUCKY.
4.	iii.	BARNABAS MARRS, b. Abt. 1746, PENNSYLVANIA; d. Aft. 1813.

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