Anne or Annie Young was born in February 1975 in Singleborough, Buckinghamshire, England. She was the third child of George Young and Hannah Mumford.
Her father, George, was a farmer. In the 1881 Census, he is listed as having 50 acres and employing 3 men and one boy on a farm at Great Horwood.
By the 1891 census, the family had moved to Bletchley and lived at the Rectory Farm. There was no longer a mention of 50 acres.
It is unclear if this change of circumstance caused him to move the entire family to New Westminister B.C. in 1893 when Anne was 18. Anne travelled on her own on The Germanic, A White Star Line steamship that travelled from Liverpool to NYC once a month. It carried 359 people. Her occupation is that of a housemaid.
Once she arrived in Canada, she met and married Robert Kerr. Robert and Annie were married on Dec 26, 1895, in B.C. They came to Alberta in 1906 to homestead with their family of three; Edwin, Ian and Iva. A fourth child Ina was born in Alberta but lived only for a few months.
