The Orr Name  Study

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I have finally compiled my book about my researches into the Orr family,  entitled "Orr-Some",  In consequence I  have felt obliged to take down the web pages which have been incorporated in the book. My apologies for any inconvenience. The book has been published by, and obtainable from, Heritage Books Inc, Maryland, USA.  www.heritagebooks.com Call toll free 800-876-6103. Have your credit card ready, or Willow Bend Books, BookOrder@WillowBendBooks.com - Phone: 800-398-7709 or 410-876-6101
 

The `Blurb` says:

Orr - Some: Research into the Orr Family - Brian J. Orr. This work is the product of over forty years interest in the origins of the Orr family. Research of an old family story—a relationship to William Orr, an Irish Patriot executed in 1798—led to research of the origin of the Orr families in Ulster, and the early Scottish settlers on the Montgomery estates, County Down, in 1606. These people came from the west of Scotland—Ayrshire and Renfrewshire—where there have been Orrs since about AD 1300. Subsequent research suggests that the family originated from the ancient Parish of Urr in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. Mainly of the Presbyterian denomination, the Orrs in Scotland and settlers in Ulster were subject to religious discrimination and were among the tens of thousands of Ulster Scots (the Scotch-Irish) who migrated to the far corners of the British Empire in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Nearly 100,000 Orr descendants are today spread across the United States of America, with thousands more in Australia, Canada, Malta, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, and the West Indies. As well as researching the origins and distribution of the family name, a detailed examination was made of the “Orrs at War” where many hundreds lie in foreign fields, having died in the service of their country. That the Orrs were achievers is illustrated in factual stories of inventors, patriots, and founders of former frontier towns and cities that bear the Orr name. Included are a selection of some old Orr families with indexed ancestor and descendant reports, and a selection of Orrs with a “claim to fame.” The sixteen appendices include details of Orrs buried in Greyfriars Kirk (Edinburgh, Scotland) in the seventeenth century; Orr marriages about the time of the Montgomery settlement; Pallot’s English marriages, and the 1881 Census, of England, Scotland and Wales. Numerous photographs and a full name index enhance the text. 2006, 5½x8½, paper, index, 376 pp. $37.00 O4266 ISBN: 078844266X

The pages about the Scottish Reformation, the Presbyterian Kirk, the Covenanters, the Ulster Scots (aka the Scotch-Irish), and the English Reformation along with some general pages  about Travels in Scotland, the Children of Scotland, the National War Memorial in Edinburgh have been moved to a new site at  www.thereformation.info

My other books about the Scottish Reformation and the Covenanters "As God is my Witness - the Presbyterian Kirk, the Covenanters & the Ulster Scots" and, "A Layman`s Guide to the Scottish Reformation " are also available from Heritage books www.heritagebooks.com , or through larger booksellers like Willow Bend, and Amazon. I have a few copies in hand for UK cheque customers (which can save on exchange rate charges and air mail postage).

Sincerely

Brian J Orr 

Page updated 29 October 2006.