After living in Singapore for 2 years now it has given me a much greater appreciation of traditional Chinese culture. A typical Chinese family will once a year visit and pay respects to their departed re... Read more
The LAIRD Family of Guelph Ontario is an old and respected Puslinch family date their ancestry back to the late John Laird, who emigrated from Scotland to County Donegal, Ireland in about 1770, and there married Margaret Brown. ... Read more
A FASCINATING directory for the city of Londonderry – dating from the early nineteenth century – has been newly-published on the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) website, offering a rich insight into what it would hav... Read more
There appears to be a connection between the Bogstown Laird’s and the Breden/Bredin family from Ballynagard. In 1886 William Bredin traveled with Richard Laird to Australia on the SS Orient and later married the widow Annie Rowe in M... Read more
Special Thanks to James Dunn Laird, Robert Williams and Steve Henkel for finding the Will and transcribing the text in the same format as the original Will. The year is 1797 and the Rebellion of the United Irishmen is about to take place. Richar... Read more
Thanks to the generosity and support of the Wiley family during a previous visit to Letterkenny I was able to locate and photograph the old Flax Mill that was on John Laird’s 68ac Carrygawley Flax farm. This is the farm where Ann Laird... Read more
I received an email from Mr Herbert Burns of Ballymoney in early August with the below attachment and accompanied text which simply said: “Coming over this year ? – Herbie” It was a very diff... Read more
Canadian Bogstown Laird Found: John Laird (b 14th August 1856 – Bogstown) at the age of 20 immigrated from Londonderry via Liverpool to Quebec on the Sarmatian in August 1876. The shipslog shows he was with a group from Londonderry that were goi... Read more
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