Descendants of Lewis Baird

First Generation

1. Lewis Baird was born in 1755 in Dublin, Ireland.

THE SCOTCH-IRISH by Charles A. Hanna, pub. 1902, reprinted 1968 by Gen. Pub. Co., Vol. II, p. 423 -

BAIRD name first appears in Lanarkshire, Ayreshire and Aberdeenshire; about 1200

A note under soc.genealogy.uk+ireland by Sheila McGregor, Clan Gregor Centre Fri, 01 Mar 96 :

"I correspond with a Scottish Baird who has done a lot of research into his family origins and claims with much confidence that the name comes from Bard, and that his Bards are or were part of Clan Gregor, which also had many other professions and trades attached to it or working within it, as

did any very large clan grouping. The difference with Clan Gregor is that they seem to hae taken their trade names as surnames, probably because McGregor and Gregor were banned over the period from 1603 to 1775 when surnames were coming into use in Highland Scotland. ... (some omitted) ... He sees the bards as the high professionals of the entertainment world, highly-trained repositories of traditional learning, genealogical information and old history. We know less about Scottish bards than about Irish bards, who learned to write in the twelfth century, but there is no reason to think there was

a major difference between them, or with the Welsh tradition either for that matter. He has found several placements which point to a major family with a resident bard, eg Monzievaird, near Crieff, which had a family of Tossachs or chiefs of some importance up to the early Middle Ages. I'm hoping to work with him to see if other Baird (Bhaird) names produce similar correspondences."

NOTE a major difference between them, or with the Welsh tradition either for that gregors@emplus.demon.co.uk (Clan Gregor Centre)

NOTE From: Barbara Petty BAIRD-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM

Subject: More BAIRD stuff

Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 12:57:15 -0400

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Joseph Baird was born in 1775 and died in 1800.

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