When Janet Aird was born on 12 January 1823, in Loudoun, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, John AIRD, was 24 and her mother, Jean MCNAUGHT, was 27. She married David Beyer on 23 February 1849, in Willunga, South Australia, Australia. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. In 1849, at the age of 26, her occupation is listed as drape maker in Willunga, South Australia, Australia. She died on 1 May 1898, in Baroota, South Australia, Australia, at the age of 75, and was buried in Port Germein, South Australia, Australia.
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Scottish: habitational name from either the medieval lordship of The Aird (Inverness) or from Aird Farm near Hurlford, Ayrshire. Both are named from Gaelic àird(e) ‘height, promontory’, or ‘headland’, from the adjective àrd ‘high, lofty’, cognate with Latin arduus ‘steep, difficult’. Compare Ard .
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