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

20 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS
Alexander traded from Banff to Norway, married one Helen Kennedy, and
left two daughters, Magdalen and Janet, who, for anything that appears, died
unmarried.
Patrick is only once mentioned in a letter of Mr. Andrew's to his eldest
brother, as living in the North of Scotland, which is all now known about him.
George was a wine-merchant, and went frequently to Bourdeaux in that way.
He bought the lands of Corskie, 1 married and had two sons, George and Andrew.
The last married, and had a son James, and he a son William, but no remains of
any of them now.
How many daughters, or if any, this George Baird of Auchmedden had, and
their fate, no account can now be got.
III.
GILBERT BAIRD OF AUCHMEDDEN, his eldest son, who married the
heiress of Ordinhnivas in 1578, 2 had by her thirty-two sons and daughters, as is
the unvaried tradition amongst their descendants, both in the North and South ; of
these sons, several went into the Church abroad, whose names are not known ; and
two went to Orkney and settled there ; and of the daughters, one married to a
Scotch merchant in Denmark, and two became nuns abroad, neither of their names
known. Three sons went to Ireland as adventurers in the beginning of King
James VI.'s reign in England ; of nine sons, George, who succeeded his father,
Branden, Andreiv, James, John, Thomas, Walter, Hugh, and Magnus; and five
daughters married, Elspet, Margaret, Anne, Katherine, and Janet, some account can
be given ; — and a sixth daughter seems to have lived in her brother's family and
never married, by a letter of the Commissary's.
Branden was an honest, industrious, peaceable man, who followed a country
life, and made a good stock by husbandry. He married the widow of Keith of
Northfield, who was daughter to Ogilvie of Glassaugh, and purchased the estate of
Northfield, which was much in debt, but having no children, left it to his son-in-
law, John Keith, who had married his sister, Anne. In 1619, Branden went over
to France to see his uncle, Mr. Andrew, as appears by a letter his father sent by
1 There were two places of this name ; one in the parish of Aberchirder ; the other on the
Dovern in Buchan. Both were held by members of the family at this date. See a note of
Auchmedden' s to one of the Commissary's letters in the Appendix, where he says, " Corskie was
Chesterhall's ancestor," and more on the same point in the deduction of the latter family. — Ed.
2 See previous notes, pp. 14 and 17. — Ed.