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

t GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS
to Annan of Auchterallan, an old family in Aberdeenshire, whose
lineal representative is Mr. Alexander Annan, merchant in Aberdeen.
The Earl of Huntly gave the present Estate of Gicht to his own third son,
William Gordon, and the lands of Pitrichie to Sir Patrick's heir-
male, 1 and Lord Newbyth's short genealogy bears, that Sir Patrick
Maitland himself was killed by Robert Innes, his brother-in-law, at
the Smiddy of Auchindoir, as they were travelling to Edinburgh
together.
Janet Maitland died June 6, 1539. The time of Thomas Baird's death is not
known. Their children, of whom any memory now remains, were —
1. George, his successor. 2. Thomas Baird of Sandbay, of whom no male
posterity now remains. 3. William Baird of Byth, of whom was lineally
descended the late James Band, of Chesterhall, father to Dr. James
Baird, physician at Edinburgh, Mr. George Baird, one of the principal
merchants in Glasgow, and four daughters, all married hi the south ;
and the late Alexander Baird, town-clerk of Cullen, whose father was
a younger brother of Chesterhall's, and who has left several sons now
in a good way. 2
George Baird, of Ordinhnivas, married in 1516, to Janet Fraser, daughter to
the Laird of Philorth — her mother was daughter to Nicol Earl of
Erroll, and that Lady Erroll's mother was Lady Elizabeth Gordon,
daughter to the Earl of Huntly.
Alexander Ogilvie, of that ilk, predecessor to the Earl of Findlater, enters
into a mutual bond of manrent with this George Baird and William
Baird, his eldest son and apparent heir (who, it seems, died without
issue) — his kinsmen and friends, in the strongest terms for all the days
of their lives, subscribed at Fyndlatyr, September 28, 1553, before wit-
nesses, Mr. Alexander Ogilvie of Glassaugh, and James Ogilvie of Cullen.
, Pettenbrinzeane, et DrumnaJcethe infra vicecom. de Banff, quas Elizdbetha Matland et Joneta
'.and, fil. et haered. quondam Patricii Matland militis, apud Francland resignaverunt. {Reg. Sig.
.)— Ed.
1 From whom descended the Maitlands of Pitrichie, now represented by the Arbuthnots and
! eses. — Ed.
- Auchmedden, it will be observed, only follows out the line of George, the eldest son, which
"jd in his granddaughter, Lillias, who married a namesake of her own, but of a totally different
J/y, to the history of which the rest of the account is devoted. With the exception of the short
:v:e in the text of the descendant of William of Byth, the third son, he quite gives the go-by to
: L>lder family, a more detailed account of which will be found in the Appendix. — Ed.