BAIRD, William 7th of Auchmedden, Jacobite 1745 ^{1 2 3 4}

   Another name for William was BAIRD, William of Auchmeden.⁵

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  General Notes:

"BAIRD
WILLIAM
WILLIAM BAIRD/MARY GORDON FR 26 (FR26)
M
30/08/1701
169/ 10 18
Aberdour"

from Births and Baptisms ³

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Witness: at baptism of Elisabeth Forbes, 4 April 1754, Skene parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. ⁵

William married Anne DUFF, daughter of William DUFF of Dipple and Jean DUNBAR, in 1721.^{1 2} (Anne DUFF was born in 1705 ¹ and died in 1773 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Anne (Duff), born 1705, married William Baird of Auchmedden." ( page 87)

"Anne (Duff), the eldest daughter of the second family, was married in 1721 to William Baird of Auchmedden, the delightful author of tlie frequently quoted Memoirs of the Duffs. He 'went out' with the Jacobites in 1745, and consequently had to remain in hiding afterwards, first at his brother-in- law's house of Echt, and afterwards at St. Andrews." (page 95)

"William and Anne Baird had a family of six sons and four daughters, but all died without issue except the youngest daughter, who married Francis Fraser of Findrach, Lumphanan, and preserved the portrait of her father, by James Ferguson the astronomer." (page 98)

from The Book of the Duffs




"William Baird (1701-75), VII of Auchmedden, the historian of the family. He had to part with the estates, in 1750, after their possession by the family since 1534: not only so, but his entire male issue became extinct by the end of the eighteenth century. It was ironic that William Baird should have gone under, for he married into a gear-getting family in the person of Anne Duff, one of the ten daughters of William Duff of Dipple (1653-1722) and sister of William Duff, first created Lord Braco and then Earl Fife - not, by the way, 'of Fife' - the ancestor of the Duke of Fife. Baird married her in 1721 when he was only twenty. She seems to have had a sad trachle with William, who was feckless and therefore very unlike the Duffs, and her misfortunes were aggravated by his turning Jacobite and joining the '45."

from The Bairds of Auchmedden ^{1 2}