Re: Laird or Leard

[Myra Perala <mperala@teleport.com>]

Another Question re 'Laird'

My sister-in-law's maiden name is Leard, and she insists the other spelling
is not from her  heritate.

How about it"

Myra


At 08:44 AM 9/7/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Cousins,
>    Maybe I should think about this longer before I show my ignorance, but
>if I am wondering perhaps others are also.
>The word "Laird" confuses me.
>It seems to be a clan name ....but then
>sometimes it is a title..There was a Mistress Pauline Hunter of Hunterston,
>Chief of Clan Hunter, 30th Laird of Hunterston at the Pleasanton Games.
>    I assume that there is no title comparable to Earl for a woman so she is
>called a "Mistress"?
>My two dictionaries say this is a Scottish noun for the owner of a landed
>estate.  a variant of Lord.
>
>But in the recent messages about the Sinclair-Lairds it becomes a family
>name?  I see no clan named Laird.
>
>Who can explain this?
>Laurel
>
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