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88646
Surname: Orr
First Name: James
Ship: -
Date: 1852 3 March
Place: Liverpool Plains
Source: MM
Details: Squatter living on Liverpool Plains


148142
Surname: Orr
First Name: James
Ship: -
Date: 1825 19 July
Place: County of Roxburgh
Source: Index to map of the country bordering upon the River Hunter... by Henry Dangar (London : Joseph Cross, 1828). p24
Details: Granted 1000 acres of land.


197671
Surname: Orr
First Name: James
Ship: -
Date: 19 February 1870
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: Married, on 12th instant, by the Rev. William Bain at his residence, Blain street Newcastle, James Orr, of Airdrie, Scotland, to Elizabeth Day of Burwood, Newcastle, and a native of the colony


177982
Surname: Orr
First Name: James
Ship: Booth 1841 (came free)
Date: 16 August 1846
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW. Roll 757
Details: Clerk from Belfast. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland. Sentenced to 2 months confinement.


16794
Surname: Orr
First Name: James
Ship: Lady Nugent 1835
Date: 1845 10 May
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Obtained ticket of leave


123009
Surname: Orr
First Name: James
Ship: Lady Nugent 1835
Date: 1843 13 January
Place: Maitland
Source: GG
Details: Rope sailmaker and soldier aged 33 from Leith. 5' 10 1/4"; brown compl., dark hair, brown eyes, eyebrows partially meeting, mark of a burn back of both hands, mark of a burn back of left wrist. Absconded from John Pearson 27th December


174838
Surname: Orr
First Name: James
Ship: Lady Nugent 1835
Date: 6 September 1844
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: State Archives NSW; Gaol Entrance Book, Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757 (Ancestry)
Details: Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland. Returned to government, his services no longer required. Passage to Sydney paid by his master


204985
Surname: Orr
First Name: James
Ship: Randolph 1849
Date: 2 March 1850
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930
Details: James Orr, tailor from Edinburgh. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Murrurundi. Sentenced to 2 months confinement for disobedience of orders


205922
Surname: Orr
First Name: James
Ship: Randolph 1849
Date: 30 July 1852
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: State Archives NSW; Kingswood, New South Wales; Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930; Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757
Details: James Orr, labourer from Edinburgh. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Wellingrove. Sentenced to 3 months confinement for neglect of duty as a hired servant


71303
Surname: Orr
First Name: James
Ship: Shipley 1817
Date: 1821
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle


83320
Surname: Orr
First Name: James & E.
Ship: -
Date: 1851 26 April
Place: Bora, Liverpool Plains
Source: MM
Details: James & E. Orr offering reward for apprehension of William Ash Mortimer who had robbed their dray at Pages River


115796
Surname: Orr
First Name: John
Ship: Hercules
Date: 1833 September
Place: Maitland
Source: Secondary Punishment
Details: Return of Corporal Punishment inflicted by Sentence of the Bench in the presence of P.N. Anley, Magistrate. 12 lashes for neglect of duty. (A boy) cried out very much


197722
Surname: Orr
First Name: Joseph
Ship: -
Date: 26 Apri 1870
Place: Nwcastle
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: Marriage on 25th inst., at the residence of the Bride s parents, Glebe, near Newcastle, by the Rev. James Coutts, M. A. Joseph Orr, to Mary Ann Jones, eldest daughter of Mr. Samuel Jones


39333
Surname: Orr
First Name: Margaret
Ship: -
Date: 1848 8 March
Place: Hexham
Source: MM
Details: Unclaimed letter held in Post Office for the month of February


158072
Surname: Orr
First Name: Margaret
Ship: -
Date: 1848 1 July
Place: East Gosford
Source: Australian Marriages - FamilySearch Historical Records
Details: Marriage of John Carey and Margaret Orr


26878
Surname: Orr
First Name: W.J
Ship: -
Date: 1847 13 February
Place: Four Mile Creek
Source: MM
Details: Unclaimed letter held at Sydney Post Office


14620
Surname: Orr
First Name: William
Ship: 0
Date: 1845 22 February
Place: Port Stephens
Source: MM
Details: Unclaimed letter at Sydney Post Office


205395
Surname: Orr
First Name: William
Ship: Templar 1844
Date: 20 March 1851
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW Roll: 757
Details: William Orr, cook from Kerry. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Singleton. Sentenced to 1 month confinement for refusing to work


204529
Surname: Orr
First Name: William and Mary Anne
Ship: Templar 1844
Date: August 1844
Place: -
Source: State Records Authority of New South Wales; Kingswood New South Wales, Australia; Wage agreements and entitlement certificates of persons on bounty ships (Agents Immigrant Lists); Series: 5315; Reel: 2454
Details: William Orr, age 29, and Mary Ann age 19 engaged with Rev. William Macquarie Cowper at Stroud on arrival on the Templar


212137
Surname: Orr (48th regt)
First Name: Private James
Ship: -
Date: December 1819 - March 1820
Place: Newcastle
Source: 48th soldiers - Muster and Pay Lists. Trove. /File 5971. AJCP Reel No: 3797-3798/48th Regiment: Northamptonshire
Details: Stationed at Newcastle