Robert James "Robbie" Baird

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 226449518
• _UID: F6A044D60AB64A99AFF7D244292831CA5BA6

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/226449518

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 183668784
• _UID: 9E16A29F404E4FB5B9B6D82103B43BE3C4DE

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183668784

William married Elisabeth James on 23 Apr 1879 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Elisabeth (daughter of Robert James and Jane "Jean" Cumming) was born in 1854 in Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died in 1936; was buried in Hopetown Cemetery, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 226449063
• _UID: BFE2DCD145E74671AC0CB29488BB4702BB56
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/226449063

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

Other Events and Attributes:

• FamilySearch ID: L7G1-KT2
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 119938321
• _UID: B99D6BC004F44282A0A21E3749199DD3A6E0
• Census: 1852, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1901, Dalhousie & North Sherbrooke Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L7G1-KT2

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119938321

John married Marion Park "May" Hood on 25 Apr 1851 in Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Marion (daughter of William Hood and Martha Park) was born on 5 Apr 1826 in Hood's Corners, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 4 Jan 1906 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Hopetown Cemetery, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 61957310
• Name: May
• _UID: 7092AEFE47EA48FDAE846CE78FF7B46C4F1B
• Census-Wife of Head: 1852, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Wife of Head: 1901, Dalhousie & North Sherbrooke Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61957310

Census-Wife of Head:
Role: Wife of Head


Census-Wife of Head:
Role: Wife of Head


Died:
Marion Park "May" Hood Baird
BIRTH?tab?5 Apr 1826
Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
DEATH?tab?4 Jan 1906 (aged 79)
Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
BURIAL?tab?
Hopetown Cemetery
Hopetown, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
MEMORIAL ID?tab?61957310 ? View Source

MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 1
FLOWERS 4
Marion (known as May) was born at Hood's Corners, Dalhousie on 5th Apr 1826. Marion Hood was the daughter of William Hood and Martha Park.

She married John Stewart Baird (b. 13th May 1827 in Dalhousie) in Bathurst, Ontario on 25th Apr 1851.

They had twelve children:

Martha Park Baird (1852-1936)
Andrew Baird (1855-1864)
William Hood (Willie) Baird (1856-1894)
John S Baird (1857-1893)
Agnes Baird (1859-1953)married William Graham Miller on April 25, 1879 in Lanark County. William was the son of William Miller and Ann Graham.
Margaret Baird (1861-1861)
James Baird (1863-1909)
Andrew William Hood Baird (1865-1892)
Jane/Jennie/Janet Baird (1867-1931)married Hugh Knowles on April 12, 1887. Hugh was the son of Hugh Knowles and Grace Blair.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Baird (1869-1892)
David Baird (1871- )

The 1891 census records that John was a farmer in the Dalhousie - Sherbrook North area of Lanark. John died on 9th Apr 1901 and is buried in Hopetown cemetery.


The Lanark Era [Ontario]

In Lanark Twp. Monday, Jan. 15th, Marion Hood, relict of the late John Baird, aged 79 years. Born in Dalhousie, at Hood's, the family moved to Western Ontario, where her brothers, William, Andrew and James still live; David, at Deluth; Mrs. Arch. Penman, and Mrs. Wm Rodger, of Dalhousie are sisters. Mr. John Baird died six or seven years ago. Their family living: James, Dalhousie; Mrs. Arch Creighton, near Perth, Mrs. Wm. Miller, Lanark; and Mrs. Hugh Knowles, Hopetown. Buried in Hopetown Cemetery.

Notes:

Married:
Married by Rev Thomas Fraser, Lanark Baptist

Other Events and Attributes:

• Address: Address:
  Robert James
  Hopetown, ON
  CAN
• _UID: 414762DC95C4402F81D6F53B8EAD6BD18CFD
• Census: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Occupation: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Census: 1881, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1891, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

Lanark Society Settler
Brother and sister married brother and sister
Charles McFadden has Robert James family bible
Robert James, the Society settler was a church elder at St Andrew's in the Lanark Settlement.

Died:
Name:?tab?Robert James
Gender:?tab?Male
Age:?tab?70
Birth Date:?tab?abt 1824
Birth Place:?tab?Lks, Ontario
Death Date:?tab?3 Mar 1894
Death Place:?tab?Lanark, Ontario, Canada
Religion:?tab?Presbyterian
Cause of Death:?tab?Progessine Paralysis

Robert married Jane "Jean" Cumming on 21 Feb 1845 in Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Jane (daughter of Archibald Cumming and Helen "Ellen" Hay) was born in 1820 in Eastwood Parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 17 Dec 1820 in Eastwood Parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 24 Dec 1905 in Hopetown, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: F5A2F659A80F490F907C359D773ADC78D89A
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1881, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1891, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

Christened:
CUMMIN
JEAN
ARCHIBALD CUMMIN/HELEN HAY FR738 (FR738)
F
17/12/1820
562/
40 7
Eastwood

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Died:
From "The Lanark Era": Issue DEC 27, 1905

Death at Hopetown, Saturday, Dec 24th, Jean Cumming, widow of the late Robert James, age 85 yrs. & 3 days.

She was born in Glasgow,Scotland in 1820, & went with her parents to the United States when six years old.

Three years later, they returned to settle in Canada. She married Robert James in 1845. Her husband died 12 years

ago. They had a family of 13 children, all of whom survive; Robert & David, of Southwyn, Manitoba; Archibald, of

Toronto; John L, of Lanark; William, Hopetown; George, Winnipeg; Mrs W H Graham, Dugald, Manitoba; Maggie &

Mrs. Robert Kay, Central Falls, Rhode Island; Mrs W H Trenham,Utica, NY; Mrs. W H Baird, Dalhousie; Mrs. J G Lawson

Middleville; & mrs John Paul, Watsons Corners. Burial in Hopetown Cemetery.

Notes:

Married:
witnesses: Robert James and John Cumming

Other Events and Attributes:

• FamilySearch ID: KV1M-THK
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 194974569
• _UID: F80C5921E6C048C08FEF4740E8BC43AFC74B
• Immigration-Witness: 1820, Canada; 3 sons and 4 daughters; ship Brock; Abercrombie Street - Trans Atlantic Bridgeton Society
• Census: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Occupation: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Residence: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
• Census: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Residence: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
• Census: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Residence: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

There is a note re wife (2) Agnes McEwen b. 1903 before Andrew but all following children note wife Agness Stewart

William's baptism indicates Con1 Lot 18 Lanark Twp.

(Research):?i?A Place Called Motherwell, p. 163
?/i?One day in 1853, two sons of Andrew Baird of Lanark Co., in Ontario came to the end of a hard day of laying a stone fence. Charles put a heavy stone in place and then told his brother it would be the last stone he would lay. With emphasis he declared, 'I am going to look for a farm where they don't have stones.'. True to his word, a few days later he asked hisfather for some money to enable him to visit some of their former neighbours who had located in Perth Co. ....



FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KV1M-THK

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194974569

Immigration-Witness:
Role: Witness
"Abercrombie Street - Trans Atlantic Bridgeton - sailed with 7 children; wife arrived later.
James Baird came from Glasgow but was originally from Perthshire Scotland. He appears to have sailed with seven children but without his wife, Janet King. She appears to be buried with him at Hopetown so possibly she remained behind and joinde him in 1821. Some women, pregnant or with a sick child, did this." The Lanark Society Settlers, Carol Bennett

Died:
Name?tab?[Baird ] Andrew David Sr
Gender Male
Age 68
Birth Date 1803
Birth Place?tab?Scotland
Death Date Dec 1871
Death Place Lanark, Ontario, Canada
Religion Church of Scotland
Cause of Death Debility

Buried:
Name:?tab?Andrew Baird
Cemetery:?tab?Hopetown
Burial Place:?tab?Lanark, Ontario, Canada
Notes:?tab?IN MEMORY OF ANDREW BAIRD. DIED DEC. 13, 1871 AGED 68 Y'RS & 1 MO. ALSO HIS WIFE AGNESS STEWART. DIED MAY. 13, 1879 AGED 75 Y'RS & 2 MO.

Andrew married Agness Stewart on 25 Sep 1823 in Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Agness (daughter of John Stewart and Agnes MacEwen) was born on 13 Mar 1804 in Thornlibank, Eastwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland; was christened on 3 Feb 1805 in Abbey Parish, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland; died on 13 May 1879 in Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Hopetown Cemetery, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FamilySearch ID: KV19-DBJ
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 194974628
• _UID: 37946A48196946E3AE32702991D2B4D38B26
• Alt. Birth: 1805, Thornlibank, Eastwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Wife of Head: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Residence-Occupant: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Residence-Occupant: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KV19-DBJ

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194974628

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Residence-Occupant:
Role: Occupant


Census-Wife of Head:
Role: Wife of Head


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Residence-Occupant:
Role: Occupant


Buried:
Name:?tab?Andrew Baird
Cemetery:?tab?Hopetown
Burial Place:?tab?Lanark, Ontario, Canada
Notes:?tab?IN MEMORY OF ANDREW BAIRD. DIED DEC. 13, 1871 AGED 68 Y'RS & 1 MO. ALSO HIS WIFE AGNESS STEWART. DIED MAY. 13, 1879 AGED 75 Y'RS & 2 MO.

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 61915530
• Occupation: School Master
• _UID: 2066275325284731932304049C6CE072DDE5

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61915530

Died:
William Hood was the son of James Hood (#51456319)and his first wife Elizabeth Jones. James Hood is buried at Creemore Cemetery, Simcoe County, Ontario.

William's mother, Elizabeth Jones, died when William was a young child, and so his father eventually remarried. William left from Greenock, Scotland with his family on July 4, 1820 and sailed on the Prompt for Canada. It has been said that he met his future wife, Martha Park, on board this ship and that theirs was a shipboard romance, but there is no documentation to support that Martha came to Canada at the same time.

That first winter at Dalhousie Township, the school teacher hired and brought over by the name of George Richmond, died when a tree fell on him. He was the first death in the Dalhousie settlement ("The Lanark Society Settlers" by Carol Bennett p. 16). This is probably the teaching position that William Hood took over. It has been said that William had had two years of college before emigrating to Canada. The school house was located at an intersection called Hood's Corner. The school is still standing today, but is a private residence. The Common School Report for 1827 (From the Journal of Assembly of Upper Canada - 1928) shows that William Hood was one of six teachers in Dalhousie Township. William Hood had 12 boys and 10 girls in his classroom.

The soil in Dalhousie Township was quite rocky, causing many of the original emigrants, and many of the first generation children, to relocate to western Ontario where the soil was better. William and Martha did not leave, probably because William had his teaching pay (whatever he could collect in money or other things such as food) besides his farm to supplement his income.

On the Canadian 1871 Census, William and Martha are age 71 and are living with their son John and his family. John and his family are still living in Lanark County, Ontario at this time.

William married Martha Park. Martha (daughter of James Park, I and Marrion Allen) was born in 1799 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 31 Jan 1799 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 21 Jan 1880 in Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Saint Andrew's Cemetery, Watson's Corner, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 62180639
• _UID: 621EB1810D3C42DE8437C54CD06005405C14

Notes:

Christened:
PARK
MATHA
JAMES PARK/MARON ALLAN FR101 (FR101)
F
31/12/1799
627/
10 166
Cambuslang

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62180639

Buried:
plot 187

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: tailor
• _UID: A0226BE36C9A45ABB7D882BC5C1ACAA4B710
• Immigration: 1820; from Cambuslang, on Commerce, Coverdale, Master,

Robert married Margaret Niblo on 25 May 1806 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Margaret was born in 1788 in Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 93876C2112A84F4B809462A514A638BEC678
• Immigration-Witness: 1820; from Cambuslang, on Commerce, Coverdale, Master,

Notes:

Christened:
NIBLO
AGNES
JOHN NIBLO/MARGARET MCCULLOCH FR112 (FR112)
F
05/05/1787
899/
10 135
Stranraer

Immigration-Witness:
Role: Witness

Notes:

Married:
JAMES
ROBERT
MARGARET NIBLO/FR3113 (FR3113)
25/05/1806
644/1
280 44
Glasgow

Other Events and Attributes:

• FamilySearch ID: MF6K-QC7
• _UID: 7546A8F21F57434BB6F6E4D2F40650F3F8A7
• Occupation: 1820, Scotland; labourer
• Residence: 1820, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Concession 4 Lot 15 West
• Immigration: 5 Aug 1820, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada; on Commerce, N. Cloverdale, Master; Bridgeton Canadian Emigration Society
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Residence: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Stone House

Notes:

(Research):Name:?tab?Archibd. Cumming
Age:?tab?35
Birth Year:?tab?abt 1785
Arrival Year:?tab?1820
Arrival Place:?tab?Quebec, Canada
Primary Immigrant:?tab?Cumming, Archibd
Source Publication Code:?tab?1640.16
Annotation:?tab?Date and place of petition for indulgence of passage or date of emigration with intended destination. Includes passengers on board the Commerce, 1820, from Greenock, Scotland, to Quebec, Canada. Also provides occupation, former residence, and county. Extr
Source Bibliography:?tab?DODS, CONSTANCE E. "A Selection of Lists from British Military Records, Series 'C' (Vol. 625)." In Families: Ontario Genealogical Society, vol. 25:2 (May 1986), pp. 95-104.

Birth:
also alt:
Name:?tab?Archibald Cuming
Gender:?tab?Male
Birth Date:?tab?30 Nov 1785
Birth Place:?tab?Glasgow,Lanark,Scotland
Father:?tab?Archibald Cuming
Mother:?tab?Margaret Johnston
FHL Film Number:?tab?1041382, 0102913, 1041382, 0908248

Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

Original data: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

Christened:
CUMING
ARCHIBALD
ARCHIBALD CUMING/MARGARET JOHNSTON FR1360 (FR1360)
M
30/11/1785
644/1
170 431
Glasgow

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MF6K-QC7

Residence:
c. Bennett: Con 3 Lot15

Col Marshall's 1834 Report
Here with family; better lot; some clay land; cold

Another Archibald Cumming settled on Lanark Con 5 Lot 20 in 1820; lot is vacant; Cumming died in the USA; lot worthless

A third Archibald Cumming arrived in 1821; settled on Con 4 L15W; 100 acres (seems to be still there)

Immigration:
sailed from Greenock 21 Jun with 402 settlers

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

Archibald married Helen "Ellen" Hay on 20 Jun 1817 in Abbey Parish, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Helen (daughter of James Hay and Jean Hood) was born in 1786 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 27 Jan 1786 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died about 1857 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: B9B5A593832F431F8D1CF39961D6AB946551
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

Christened:
HAY
HELEN
JAMES HAY/JEAN HOOD FR1367 (FR1367)
F
27/01/1786
644/1
170 441
Glasgow

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

Notes:

Married:
CUMMING
ARCHBALD
HELEN KAY/EASTWOOD FR1732 (FR1732)
20/06/1817
559/
40 642
Abbey

First name(s)?tab?Archbald
Last name?tab?Cumming
Marriage year?tab?1817
Marriage date?tab?20 Jun 1817
Marriage place?tab?Abbey Paisley,Renfrew,Scotland
Spouse's first name(s)?tab?Helen Kay
Spouse's last name?tab?Eastwood
Place?tab?Abbey Paisley
County?tab?Renfrewshire
Country?tab?Scotland
Record set?tab?Scotland Marriages 1561-1910
Category?tab?Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
Subcategory?tab?Parish Marriages
Collections from?tab?Scotland, United Kingdom
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