Orr Family History
Orr Name Meaning
Northern English, Scottish, and northern Irish: from the Old
Norse byname Orri ‘blackcock’ (the male black grouse).Scottish: nickname for someone with a sallow complexion, from
Gaelic odhar ‘pale’, ‘dun’.English: topographic name for
someone who lived on a shore or ridge, from Old English ora
‘shore’, ‘hill-slope’, ‘flat-topped ridge’, or a habitational name
from a place named with this word (see Ore).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Orr
Name Distribution of Orr Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Orr families
 208 - 414  70 - 207 |
 1 - 69  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Orr families
|
810 - 1,618 271 - 809 |
1 - 270 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Orr census records
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Orr Family Origin
Orr Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Orr Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Orr families immigrated
to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Orr Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Orr census records
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Military Service by Orr
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