Baird Family History
- Baird Name Meaning
- Scottish: occupational name from Gaelic bàrd ‘bard’, ‘poet’, ‘minstrel’, or of Gaelic Mac an Baird ‘son of the bard’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,076,918 Historical Documents with Baird on Ancestry
- 426,673 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 355,123 Census and Voter Lists
- 60,130 Military Records
- 58,946 Immigration Records
- 1,176,046 Member Trees
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Number of Baird families
 144 - 286  49 - 143 |
 1 - 48  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Baird families
|
1,011 - 2,020 338 - 1,010 |
1 - 337 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Baird census records
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- Scotland (300)
- Ireland (158)
- England (108)
- Great Britain (47)
- Ireland,Great Britain (10)
- Britain (7)
from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Baird census records
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