Tarr Genealogy
a project of
V. F. Thomas Co. - P. O. Box 84 - Hulls Cove, Maine  04644
info@vfthomas.com

(updated 4 July 2024)

Welcome to the Tarr family genealogy. Family units are arranged alphabetically by the first name of the father (or single-parent mother). Links are provided to enable you to move up and down each lineage. To follow a line back in time (ancestors), click on the underlined portion of “(son of …)” or “(dau. of …)” beneath the name of the person you want to trace back. To follow a line forward in time (descendants), click on the name of the person whose offspring you want to see. A plus sign (+) following a name means that that person had one or more children, but that family group has not been added to this web page. To view documentation, including census data, click on the link “documentation and notes” below a family.

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A little work by each of us will save a lot of work for all of us.



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Andrew Tarr came to Mount Desert Island from Gloucester, Massachusetts. According to George Street’s 1926 (revised edition of original 1905) book Mount Desert: A History, he “seems to have settled first near his old [Gloucester] neighbors at the head of the sound, but soon moved to the smoth slopes of Fernald’s Point where the Jesuits had set up their cross just one hundred and fifty years before. In the list of the early settlers on the Bernard grant his lot is designated as northerly of Norwood’s Cove.”

Andrew Tarr was one of 10 signers of a 1768 petition to Governor Bernard of Massachusetts, requesting his intervention in a dispute with people living on the mainland who were cutting hay on Mount Desert Island or stealing hay already cut by the early settlers. This was possibly the Andrew Tarr in the 1790 census but not the Andrew who married Susan, died 4 May 1875 at the age of 79 years, and is buried in the Gilley Burying Ground in what is now Southwest Harbor.


only Tarr household in 1790 census of the town of Mount Desert free white males 16 and upwards free white males under 16 free white females
Andrew Tarr 2 1 2 
   

Andrew Tarr
   (son of [...])
   b. age 79 y. at death
   m. Susan [...]
            (dau. of [...])
            b. age 91 y., 10 m., 11 d. at death
            d. 20 May 1890
                  bur. Gilley Burying Ground   Southwest Harbor, Maine
   d. 4 May 1875
         bur. Gilley Burying Ground   Southwest Harbor, Maine

child:
   Comfort Tarr   -   m. Tobias Fernald

documentation and notes

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