Individual Details

John Marr likely had a wife before Anna Elizabeth Fishback whom he married sometime after 1725. Likely 2nd marriage for both. There were children other than Catherine, probably all children of the first wife. Many list the first wife as Catherine Fischbach, some say she was Sarah. I have found no record.

John Marr and Mark Hardin were two of the earliest settlers of the Elk Run area of what would become Fauquier Co, VA
From "Landmarks of Old Prince William County," by Fairfax Harrison.
P. 201
**While Lee's [Thomas Lee] grant carried the Virginia frontier to the first hills, the immediately significant occupation of the territory was that covered by more than fifty small grants on the upper waters of Marsh Run, recorded between 1710 and 1719, when the proprietary office again was closed for three years. The incidental recitals of the land books testify that by 1715, few as they may have been, some of these grantees already called Elk Marsh home. Among such proven pioneeer residents were William Russell and Mark Hardin, as well as those who gave their names to streams; John Brown and William Allen, on Brown's Branch; John Marr and John Hooper on Marr's Branch; and Jeffrey Johnson on Johnson's Branch.**


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Notes for JOHN MARR:

Taken from William and Mary Quarterly Vol. I. Article by M. W. Hiden.
In the effort to get a background for John Marr, various books were consulted. Reitsap's "Planches de l"Armorial General." vol. 2, supplement pg. 161, describes the coats of arms of several families by the name of Marr, Marre, and de la Marre. The Marr family is said to be of Ratisbonne (Regenburg), Bavaria, but since this book deals with French armorial families, the Ratisbonne Marrs must have originated in France. A Marre family is given as of Flanders, and de la Marre as of lie de France, Brittany, Lorraine and Champaign. Since the Huguenots were strong in Brittany and in Flanders (Baird's "Huguenot Emigration to America," vol. 1, pp. 149,181) it would seem likely that the Marr's and the de la Marre's found in the English Huguenot Church records were from these provinces that lie so near England.

Among the settlers of "Manakin Town" in Virginia was a Nicti Mar with his wife and two children (The Douglas Register, p. 371)

Farsighted Huguenots did not wait until the crushing Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 before making plans to leave France, but for thirty years before this date, they had been taking their arts and crafts across the English Channel to find safety and protection. In addition to the Theadneedle St. Church in London, which was in a way their Cathedral Church, there were also Huguenot groups and churches in Canterbury, Norwich, Bristol and other English towns.

Antedating the Manakin Town settlers who came to Virginia as an organized group with their minister, various young Frenchmen one by one settled along the Rappahannock River in the last quarter of the Seventeenth Century. Names like Renoe, Tacquet, Coutanceau, Chenault, Foushee, Micou and Latane prove this statement by prima facie evidence.

As yet, we can not say just when John Marr reached this country, whether he came directly from France or via England. He was most likely here about 1688, as his marriage probably occurred in Virginia. By 1695 he was established in Lancaster Co Virginia and is among the tithables there. He was also there in 1696. By 1700, he was in Stafford Co Virginia and in the county levy received 600 pounds of tobacco for trapping two wolves. On April 8, 1702, William Allen of Stafford Co Virginia cordwainer (shoe maker), for 2500 pounds of tobacco sold to John Hooper of Northumberland Co., all that tract or messuage of land lying westerly "and adjoining the 100 acres I leased to John Marr a Frenchman of this county and northerly on a certain tract sold by my brother, John Allen, to Lewis Renoe, a Frenchman of Westmoreland Co., and part of the land my brother, John and I bought of Augustine Kneaton, Blacksmith."

When John Marr was naturalized, we do not know, but he clearly was, for in September 1748, his son Christopher sold land "which said Marr bequeathed unto the said Christopher his son" Land of an unnaturalized alien could not be devised nor inherited, but escheated to the Crown.

He most certainly came first to Northumberland, which adjoins Lancaster Co., for most of his and his family's associates for a century can be traced back to this county (including the fact that Hardins were then living in Northumberland). Unfortunately, many Northumberland records of the last quarter of the Seventeenth century were destroyed by fire of 1710.

John Marr's will was dated 8 May 1744, Prince William Co WB C, p.483 - and was proved on 28th of May the same year. He devised to wife Elizabeth, one-third of his estate. John Bradford Jr was to receive a negro provided he pay Martha Keirns 5#'s with a year. John Marr, son of Daniel Marr, a slave provided he pay Mary Nettle 6#'s at the age of eighteen. Son Christopher to receive a serving woman. Jacob Rector, the gray mare Pug. The remainder to be divided "amongst my children". Daniel Marr & John Bradford, Executors.
The estate inventory, p.498, was returned by John Grant, Joseph Hudnall, and Jacob Holtzclaw, and included 2 sermon books, a large Bible and other small books.

p.288 of Tyler's Quarterly History & Genealogy Magazine, Vol. 26, No. 4, April 1945. "John Marr of Stafford Co." by M. W. Hiden.
The will of John Marris vaue as to his child and implies there were others besides those name in the document. The will of Daniel, probably his second son, was in a missing Prince William volume. We are, therefore, compelled to get our information largely from an incomplete item in the Bible belonging to some of his Bradford grandchildren. This states there were two daughter, Mary Marr, who married (1) Thomas Kingcart, Jr. and (2) John Bradford and __________Marr, who married a Hardin. The will seems to indicate a third daughter, who had a young daughter, Mary Nettle.

Birth	Abt 1673
Marriage	Ca 1729	ANNA ELIZABETH FISHBACK
Death	1744	Prince William County, Virginia
Marriage		[Marr]

Spouse

ANNA ELIZABETH FISHBACK (1685 - 1761)

Spouse	[Marr] ( - 1725)
Child	John MARR Jr. (1691 - 1716)
Child	Christopher MARR (1692 - 1780)
Child	Daniel MARR (1693 - 1786)
Child	Mary MARR (1695 - 1775)
Child	CATHERINE MARR (1711 - 1783)

Father	Johannes Maier (1649 - )
Mother	Elsbeth Otterbach ( - )