BAIRD, Elizabeth ¹

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Elizabeth married George SKENE of Caraldstone (Careston), son of John SKENE 15th of that Ilk and Jean BURNET.¹ (George SKENE of Caraldstone (Careston) was born about 1664.)

  Marriage Notes:

"George Skene, 'who served under the Duke of Maryborough in Queen Anne's wars, and afterwards acquired a considerable sum in the Mississippi Stock, in France, with which he bought the estate of Caraldstone, An. 1720' (MS.D). He married Elizabeth Baird, widow of Francis White, coffee merchant in London, by whom he had two daughters"

from Memorials of the Family of Skene ¹