James Orr, 18311904 (aged 73 years)

Name
James /Orr/
Given names
James
Surname
Orr
Birth June 20, 1831
MarriageAnne AitkenheadView this family
July 7, 1851 (aged 20 years)
Birth of a daughterIsabella Orr
calculated 1851 (aged 19 years)
Occupation
Farmer, carter
1855 (aged 23 years)

Birth of a daughterAnn Orr
calculated 1855 (aged 23 years)
Occupation
pitheadman
1857 (aged 25 years)

Birth of a sonJames Orr
calculated 1860 (aged 28 years)
Family censusAnne AitkenheadView this family
April 1861 (aged 29 years)
Birth of a sonJohn Orr
calculated 1866 (aged 34 years)
Birth of a daughterMary Orr
calculated 1868 (aged 36 years)
Immigration 1869 (aged 37 years)

Birth of a daughterAgnes Orr
calculated 1871 (aged 39 years)
Family censusAnne AitkenheadView this family
1880 (aged 48 years)
Anecdote

Death
Congestion of the bowels
October 13, 1904 (aged 73 years)
Burial October 14, 1904 (1 day after death)
Family with Anne Aitkenhead
himself
18311904
Birth: June 20, 1831New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Death: Congestion of the bowelsOctober 13, 1904Severy, Greenwood County, Kansas, USA
wife
18301918
Birth: February 26, 1830 39 33East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Death: senile dementia with general weakness?May 1, 1918Boone, Iowa, USA
Marriage MarriageJuly 7, 1851East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, Scotland
6 months
daughter
1851
Birth: calculated 1851 19 20Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland
5 years
daughter
1855
Birth: calculated 1855 23 24Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland
6 years
son
1860
Birth: calculated 1860 28 29Scotland
7 years
son
1866
Birth: calculated 1866 34 35Scotland
3 years
daughter
1868
Birth: calculated 1868 36 37Scotland
4 years
daughter
1871
Birth: calculated 1871 39 40Missouri, USA
Immigration

According to the memoirs of William Aitkenhead, he emigrated in 1869, first to Carthage, Missouri, then to Elk City, Kansas. Farmed at Severy, Kansas.

Anecdote

According to the birth records of the children Anne and James were married in Kilbride in June 1851. According to her obituary they were married in Glasgow on 20 January 1849. According to the IGI (source reel 1066591- Kilbride marriage records ) they were married 7 July 1851 (Maybe when banns were finished?). James filed his declaration of intent of naturalisation in Montgomery County, KS 1 October 1873. No actual naturalization papers were found. They came to US in 1868-69 and lived i n Jasper Co, MO with brother Peter.