THE IRISHMAN by James Orr, The Bard of Ballycarry. Tune — “Vive La. “ THE savage loves his native shore, Though rude the soil and chill the air; Well then may Erin’s sons adore Their isle, which Nature formed so fair! What flood reflects a shore so sweet, As Shannon great, or past’ral Bann? Or […]
Claims to Fame We all like to think there is someone famous in our ancestry, and in the broader family there some Orrs worthy of comment. Here are a few I have come across so far. If you have any to add do please get in touch. Congressional Medal of Honour. The following are the […]
An opinion about the Origin of the Campbell Name. An extract from the Montgomery Manuscripts (Rev. Geo Hill 1869). p443 ” Some have been surnamed from a remarkable part of their face which has stuck to ye Posterity of ye Eminent Person who was first designed soe, as ye Campbells from one who had a […]
Orrs who gave their lives in World War I and their Regiments Irish Regiments. They served with the Royal Irish Rifles, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers , the Royal Ulster Rifles, and The Irish Guards. It is noteworthy that a number of those killed were amongst the first to join up as gauged by their low serial […]
Rev. Henry Duncan Minister at Ruthwell Moderator of the Church of Scotland The Rev. Henry Duncan (1774 – 1846) would have earned a place in history even without his efforts to save the Ruthwell Cross. He was also a leading geologist, antiquarian and an accomplished artist. He was the discoverer of the first fossil footprints […]
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 […]