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Dr Desmond McCourt (OBE) – Memorial Tribute by E. Estyn Evans Desmond McCourt (Des, or Dizzy as I always called him) was one of the most interesting of the hundreds of students who pas... Read more
My great grandmother Eliza Mary Laird was born c.1815 in Northern Ireland. When Eliza and her husband Andrew Kerr came to Australia as Bounty Migrants in 1841 Eliza is listed on the shipping... Read more
The wonders of Google. My Dad could only remember a few lines from his childhood related this 1948 song “I open the door an’ the flies swarm in. I shut the door an... Read more
Andrew Kerr and Elisa Mary (nee Laird) resided at 113, Palmer-street Woolloomooloo in 1858 at the same time one street over Robert Laird and his wife lived at Crown Street. There is a clea... Read more
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 ... 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... 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)... 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 th... Read more
The following is from “The Heritage of Blue Hill” (Nebraska) published in 1976. It has a number of biographies of early settlers there. BIOGRAPHIES FROM THE HERITAGE OF BLUE HILL... Read more
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