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Daniel Pettigrew was the son of Archibald Pettigrew and Isabella Orr of Ballyknockan, parish of Saintfield (neighbouring parish to Comber). These parishes and townlands are just a few miles south of Belfast.

Hello Harry - thanks for the info, sounds like you collected a lot of in depth information there, makes for fascinating reading.

I think we may be talking about different Archibald's - the parents of Daniel in my tree were Archibald (b. 1863) and Isabella Miller (birth place listed as Ireland but nothing specific)- not Isabella Orr - and the Miller name explains where there are so many Pettigrews with Millar as a middle name. 

But there are a lot of Daniels and Archibald's floating around so who knows.

Thanks for this info - as it happens I just started researching my tree a couple of days ago and thanks to various sites and a lot of census and BMD searching had reached the Pettigrews whom I found in the 1881 Scottish census records.  According to those Archibald Pettigrew was born in Ireland so it seems like this England boy (now living in California) has Scottish and Irish blood in him.

Chipstart you and I share a Huggan relative - my mother was a Huggan before marriage (she's still alive and living in Hampshire) and her father George Huggan (died in 1977) was the youngest brother to the John Millar Huggan who is your great-great-grandfather. 

Helen Pettigrew Huggan and George Millar Huggan were my great-grandparents so I think that makes us 3rd cousins once removed!  My mother had one brother but he never had any children.  I have some cousins who are descended from my grandfathers family but I don't know any other Huggans.