Collection # 43

CARR, MARTIN, DAVIS FAMILIES

PAPERS, 1792 - 1943

Processed by Jean Houston

Edited by Barbara Carver Smith

Monmouth County Historical Association
70 Court Street
Freehold, New Jersey 07728

February 1995



INTRODUCTION

The Carr, Martin and Davis Collection is primarily a family photographic collection, summarizing the emigration and eventual assimilation into American culture. There is some genealogical material.

The Carr family migrated to Brooklyn from Harewell Hall, near Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire, England in 1850.

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CONTAINER LIST

Box / Folder / Contents

1 / 1 / Photographs. Carr family, primarily Grace (Mrs. John) Carr and Elizabeth Ann Carr). 11 items

1 / 2 / Photographs. Martin family, primarily Elizabeth Ann Carr (Mrs. Colin) Martin and Therese Grace Martin. 29 items

1 / 3 / Photographs. Davis family, primarily Eleanor Martin Davis. 28 items

1 / 4 / Photographs. Daivs family, primarily Eleanor Martin Davis. 28 items

1 / 5 / Photographs. Davis family, primarily Theresa Grace (Mrs. Walter Watson) Davis. 11 items

1 / 6 / Photographs. Unidentified subjects. 18 items

2 / 1 / Photographs. Unidentified subjects, primarily men, women and children of England and New York. 32 items

2 / 2 / Photographs. Unidentified subjects, primarily men, women and children of England and New York. 42 items

2 / 3 / Photographs. Unidentified subjects, includes 13 views of an anoymous house, probably home of Martin/Davis family. 17 items

2 / 4 / Photographs. Yorkshire, England (loc. in the back of Binder 11)

2 / 5 / Correspondence, Literary Productions [18]71, 1929 - 1929, n.d. 9 items

2 / 6 / Autograph album of Theresa (Grace) Martin, 1882 - 1886. 1 item

2 / 7 / Legal documents, 1851 - 1875. 3 items

2 / 8 / Financial docments - Receipts, 1867 - 1902. 6 items

2 / 9 / Military documents, 1863, 1865. 2 items

2 / 10 / Genealogical materials, 1792 - 1927.

2 / 11 / Miscellaneous, n.d. 2 items

- / - / Cranberry ring binder containing genealogy family group sheets on Carr, Martin and Davis families, empty envelopes, and a folder.