Ann Clark
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Mystery Monday – Alexander Baird, the Blacksmith
Ann Clark, head of the household and wife of Alexander Baird the Blacksmith, was never enumerated as widow in Scotland’s census for 1851 and 1861. I always felt Alexander was out there, wandering somewhere, but contact was maintained with the family because his sons Charles and James marriage certificates did not include the word “deceased”… Continue reading
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Beautiful town of Montrose near by the seaside
(From the poem “Montrose”, William McGonagall, worlds worst poet”) As with my Highlanders details of my Lowlanders are not exactly brimming with certainty and nor did they start off in Montrose but in the nearby Parish of St Cyrus where on the 13th August 1802 – John Clark and Christian Baird in Morphie had two daughters born 12th August… Continue reading
Many Years Ago 