When James Baird was born on 19 October 1849, in Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, James Baird, was 23 and his mother, Janet Wylie, was 23. He married Margaret Morrison on 7 June 1872, in Campsie, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Calton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1881 and Saint Rollox, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1891. In 1901, at the age of 52, his occupation is listed as carding contractor's foreman. He died in 1934, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 85.
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Scottish:
from a common pronunciation of Bard in Scotland.
occupational name from Gaelic bàrd ‘bard, poet, minstrel’, or of Gaelic Mac an Baird ‘son of the bard’.
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