. The Bairds of Gartsherrie. Some notices of their origin and history . ey then removed to the farm of Dun-beth, belonging to William Baird & Company, where they stillreside. They now enjoy an income which makes them morethan independent. She retains the kind and simple feelings ofher younger days, and dispenses her unostentatious charitieswith a generous hand. The associates of her early days arealways welcomed by her, and none of them who require assist-ance are sent away empty. By her first marriage, Janet Baird had two sons and twodaughters. The eldest daughter, Jane, died in infancy. The
. The Bairds of Gartsherrie. Some notices of their origin and history . ey then removed to the farm of Dun-beth, belonging to William Baird & Company, where they stillreside. They now enjoy an income which makes them morethan independent. She retains the kind and simple feelings ofher younger days, and dispenses her unostentatious charitieswith a generous hand. The associates of her early days arealways welcomed by her, and none of them who require assist-ance are sent away empty. By her first marriage, Janet Baird had two sons and twodaughters. The eldest daughter, Jane, died in infancy. The 124 THE BAIRDS OF GARTSHERRIE. second son, Thomas, born in 1826, was never very robust, and hedied, unmarried, in 1850. The second daughter, also named Jane,married Thomas Thorneycroft, of Hadley Park, Salop, an iron-master in Wolverhampton, and has issue five sons:—GeorgeBenjamin, James Baird, Hamo Douglas, Alexander Whitelaw,and Wallace; and four daughters:—Jessie, Jeanie, Eleanor,and Florence. Alexander, the eldest son of Janet Baird, by her firstmarriage,. gUcxanirr SsIItittlato, of (Sartsltorr, <ftt.{J. Was born at Drumpark, in the parish of Old Monkland,in 1823. He was educated at Grange School, Sunderland,under the late Dr. Cowan. Having studied practical miningand drawing, and otherwise qualified himself, he went to Gart-
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