I am descended from Orr's of Annandale Farm, Kilmaurs parish
Thomas Orr married Hannah Longmuir
Orr in Stewarton in 1802
Thomas Orr born Kilmaurs
1771 died 1852
Hannah Longmuir born Stewarton
1782 died 1858
Their children:
1 William Orr born Annandale
1803 died in infancy
2 Hannah Orr born Annandale
married William Richmond, farmer near
Campbelltown, 5 children
3 Mary
Boyd Orr born Annandale 1805 unmarried, died New Zealand 1900
4 Jean Orr born Annandale
married 1) Cameron who died young 2) David
(or Douglas?) Caldwell 3 children
son Thomas Caldwell & two daughters. **
5 Elizabeth Orr married 1)
John Hay of Glasgow, grain & provision
merchant 2) William Aitken,
grain merchant Londonderry, 2 children
Elizabeth & William. Emigrated
to New Zealand **
6 William Orr, born Annandale,
died 1876. Farmer at Annandale, and
afterwards at Castle Farm
Glenarn,Co. Antrim, and finally Kirklands,
Maybole. Married Mary McMurtrie,
13 children. After Williams death,
Mary and 13 children emigrated
to New Zealand.
7 Agnes Orr born Annandale
1815 married Ebenezer Hay 1839 emigrated
to New Zealand 1839 died Pigeon
Bay South Island New Zealand 1863 11 children
8 Ann Orr born Annandale
1817, married Rev. John Guthrie, Kendal,
Westmoreland and afterwards
Glasgow. 5 children, died 1896
9 Julia Orr born Annandale
1825 married Rev. AM Wilson, Airdrie 4
children, died 1896
10 Rev. Thomas Orr 1825
married M. Dixon, 5 children, died Loudon 1896.
Thomas Caldwell married his
first cousin Elizabeth Aitken ** in
Londonderry 1866 & emigrated
to New Zealand the same year.These are
my great grand parents. Their
ninth child, Mary Boyd Caldwell, was
my grandmother.
Mary Boyd is a recurring name
in these families, some connection to
Mary Boyd, daughter of the
fourth Earl of Kilmarnock, who was
captured following the collapse
of the Jacobite cause at Culloden,
and executed on Tower Hill
in August 1746.
Meg kiwicelt@wow.net