[Ancestor] Orr

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1 M John Orr ^{1 2}

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Orr

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The Orr surname is a common one in the North of Ireland, but it was brought to Ulster from Scotland. James Orr (died in 1627) and Jane Clement, his wife (died in 1636), went to Ireland with Sir Hugh Montgomery in 1606. There are still [1905] many representatives of this stock in Down and Antrim. One of the family, as a member of the firm of McCaw, Stevenson & Orr, Belfast, published Hill's "Plantation of Ulster." One branch of the family was allied with the Boucicaults, to whom Dion Boucicault, the eminent actor and dramatist, belonged. The Orrs have been prominent in the ministry of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland since the seventeenth century. Peter Orr was minister at Clough, County Antrim, 1673-1705, and Thomas Orr at Cumber, County Down, from 1695 until his death, Jan. 1, 1721-22. Among their successors in the eighteenth century were Alexander, James, John and Robert. The first of the name to come to America was Robert Orr, a Presbyterian minister in New Jersey, 1715-19, and he was followed in 1730 by Rev. William Orr, the ancestor of the Orrs of South Carolina.

1 Editor, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 671.

2 Editor, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 395.