Dear Cousins Further to my e-mail earlier in the week, here is more on the Lairds from the Sinclairs. Yours aye Iain Subj: Re: Scots Clans descended from Rollo Date: 9/9/99 4:50:21 GMT Daylight Time From: jsq@mids.org (John S. Quarterman) Sender: jsq@mids.org To: INSLaird@cs.com CC: jsq@mids.org (John S. Quarterman) Iain, I forget whether I mentioned that I've put your general Laird writeup in http://www.mids.org/sinclair/laird.html Please let me know of any changes, etc. John S. Quarterman <jsq@mids.org> Sender: jsq@mids.org Subj: sinclair-digest V1 #84 Date: 9/11/99 5:46:20 GMT Daylight Time From: owner-sinclair-digest@mids.org (sinclair-digest) Sender: owner-sinclair-digest@mids.org Reply-to: sinclair@mids.org To: sinclair-digest@mids.org sinclair-digest Friday, September 10 1999 Volume 01 : Number 084 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:51:38 EDT From: GDSinclair@aol.com Subject: Re: Who are the Lairds? In a message dated 09/08/99 4:43:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time, laurel@spiritone.com writes: << but not the Lairds. Do we need to update things? >> The Lairds are not a Sept or Associated Family of Sinclait/St.Clair/Sinkler. Laird is associated with the Tweedside District. Tweedside is located to the south and east of Edinburgh. It appears that Laird did not align themselves with any Clan but remained a family of independents. (Taken from "Tartan For Me" 6th Edition. GaryD [ This is the Sinclair family discussion list, sinclair@mids.org [ To get off or on the list, see http://www.mids.org/sinclair/list.html - ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 22:59:02 +0100 From: "Privateers" <Privateers@privateers.org> Subject: Re: Who are the Lairds? I was wondering if you could identify which Earl gave the family permission under what circumstances and is the permit still valid? Sinclair - ----- Original Message ----- From: <INSLaird@cs.com> To: <sinclair@mids.org> Cc: <LAIRD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 2:02 PM Subject: Who are the Lairds? Subj: sinclair-digest V1 #85 Date: 9/12/99 5:46:14 GMT Daylight Time From: owner-sinclair-digest@mids.org (sinclair-digest) Sender: owner-sinclair-digest@mids.org Reply-to: sinclair@mids.org To: sinclair-digest@mids.org sinclair-digest Saturday, September 11 1999 Volume 01 : Number 085 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:37:39 EDT From: INSLaird@cs.com Subject: Who are the Lairds? Dear Gary We do not dispute that the main family of Lairds are from the south of Scotland, but our family is from Caithness and before that Norway. We have no evidence of any connection with the Lairds of the south of Scotland, and have been in Caithness for many hundreds of years. To answer Sinclair's question it is the current Earl who has given us permission to wear the Sinclair Tartans and badge. If you would like to see more, please visit our webpage at "http://ourworld.cs.com/inslaird/" Yours aye Iain Laird [ This is the Sinclair family discussion list, sinclair@mids.org [ To get off or on the list, see http://www.mids.org/sinclair/list.html - ---------------------------- Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:52:07 -0500 From: "John S. Quarterman" <jsq@mids.org> Subject: new items in the web pages Here is a brief update on new items in the web pages. All of them may be found by looking under New in http://www.mids.org/sinclair/ The new items in the past week are: A definition of Scottish Lairds (barons) by Sinclair de la Behottiere. Commentary on Grandmasters of the Knights Templar, and the Shroud of Turin, by Sinclair de la Behottiere and Tim Wallace-Murphy. More about the Earls of Orkney, by Niven Sinclair and Sinclair de la Behottiere. Family history as myth, and myth as a guide, by Sinclair de la Behottiere and Niven Sinclair. Laird: a lost sept of Sinclair? by Iain Laird. Those of you who have sent in material that hasn't appeared in the web pages yet, don't despair; I'll get to it as time permits. The vast majority of the material in these web pages has been sent in by various Sinclairs and others all over the world, many of them through the Sinclair discussion list, http://www.mids.org/sinclair/list.html And remember: these web pages were never intended to be the only Sinclair web pages. They are more of an overview that should over time increasingly use links into other pages elsewhere. Send in URLs for your own web pages; I will add links to them. John S. Quarterman <jsq@mids.org> [ This is the Sinclair family discussion list, sinclair@mids.org [ To get off or on the list, see http://www.mids.org/sinclair/list.html - ---------------------------- End of sinclair-digest V1 #85 *****************************