The Bishop`s Dragnet and the Cess. The Bishops Dragnet was another name for a law passed by Parliament on 10 July 1663 “ An Act for Separation and Disobedience to Ecclesiastical Authority “. It ran hand in hand with the infamous Middleton`s Act which evicted ministers who had not obtained patrons and presented themselves to […]
Orr in Ireland My thanks to Barbara Holt in New Zealand for a new claimant for the first Orr in Ireland, who appeared in an Index of Wills in the Salt Lake City Library of the Latter Day Saints. This gives a Richard Orr having lodged a will (or his executors/family did) in 1563. His […]
Locations of the Orrs. Did we begin in Kirkcudbrightshire ? It is likely that the Orrs took their name from a parish in the south west of Scotland which is to some extent substantiated by the existence of the Parish of Urr (Pre 1975 Parish ref.884 in Dumfries and Galloway Region ) to the north west […]
Clan Campbell The Orr connection to Clan Campbell is rooted in the feudal system where small families gave allegiance to a larger, more powerful, family. Clan or family membership comes about through three means: birth, as generally understood by having one of the surnames of a clan or family; marriage, although a woman may choose […]
William Quarrier and the Quarrier Homes William Quarrier (1829-1903), was the only son of Annie Booklass and William Quarrier, a ship’s carpenter who died of cholera in Quebec in 1832. Thus at an early age young William became acquainted first-hand with deprivation, his mother taking in sewing and he working as a messenger boy […]
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Schedule of “dissolved ” Monasteries, (continued). pages 8-13 [ For large image, click on thumbnail] Last page includes Appx 2 – valuations of suppressed monasteries.
THE DECLARATION OF BREDA, 1660 CHARLES, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. To all our loving subjects of what degree or quality so-ever, greeting. If the general distraction and confusion which is spread over the whole kingdom doth not awaken all men to a […]
The Spanish Blanks This was another plot in 1592 by the Catholic Earls of Huntly, Erroll and Angus resuming their correspondence and plotting of three years earlier with Spain. The English secret service gained wind of the plot and informed Andrew Knox, minister in Paisley, who boarded a ship in the River Clyde and seized […]
The stones of James Kirko or Kirka of Sundaywell, Dunscore. James Kirk , also spelt Kirko, was one of two elders present with Rev John Guthrie of Stirling, who made a petition to Charles II on his restoration in 1660. The second elder, Andrew Hay of Craignethan, escaped , but Kirk and Guthrie were imprisoned […]
The stones of William Welsh. William Welsh of Kirkpatrick and another Dumfries man, William (also known as John) Grier or Grierson, were captured at the battle of Rullion Green in November 1666. It was decided that some of the prisoners should be sent back to their home towns there to be executed as a salutory […]
Borgue and Minigaff signatories to the Covenant (continued).
Glossary (continued). Mummeris-Regardand Regentrie-Stay Steik-Wardit Wark-Yule. Supplementary glossary of phrases, terms etc.
The Rev C H Dick in his Highways and Byways in Galloway and Carrick quotes the views of earlier travellers to Kirkcudbright. A Journey through Scotland. In Familiar Letters from a Gentleman Here, to his Friends Abroad Being the Third Volume, Which Compleats Great Britain. By the Author of The Journey thro’ England was published […]