Genealogical collections concerning the sir-name of Baird, and the families of Auchmedden, Newbyth, and Sauchton Hall in particular

PREFACE.
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HE first edition of these " Collections," edited by W. N. Fraser,
Esq., under the title of "An Account of the Surname of JBaird,
particularly of the Families of Auchmedden, Newbyth, and Sauch-
tonhall" was published at Edinburgh in 1857, in 4to, but has been
out of print for some years, and is now rarely to be met with.
The present edition contains a good deal of additional genealogical matter, in
Notes and an Appendix.
As many may glance at the preface of a work of this description without
going deeper into its contents, attention may be here called to the fact that the
second volume of the original MS., at one time in the Advocates' Library, Edin-
burgh, is now missing ; in the hope that a public notice may lead to its recovery.
In the notes to his text Auchmedden says : —
" The second volume of this Collection begins with a continuation of these notes, as
they occur in looking over old papers or from new information."
This second volume was in all probability the one thus described in the
Catalogue of the Genealogical MSS. : —
" 34, 6, 17. Some Genealogical Collections of the name of Baird, by William
JBaird of Auchmedden. Pp. 208, 4fo."
It has unfortunately been mislaid or lost. To assist in its identification, a
facsimile of the title-page of the volume here reprinted (Genealog. MSS. no. 32,
6, 12) is subjoined, which it will be observed is marked Vol. I.
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