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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 3281001, member: 83956&quot;]Not a coin comment really, but my maternal great-grandmother was a Baird, part of the Scottish Baird immigrants who settled Bardstown (“Bairdstown”) Kentucky, near Louisville. Her great-grandfather James Baird came to America in 1782 in a harrowing seven-week voyage that left him so weak he had to be carried from the boat. I can’t connect the dots perfectly, but after Culloden, because of their Jacobite sympathies, the Bairds had their ancestral lands in Auchmedden stripped from them. The Baird fortunes then waned—hence a number of them immigrated to America, including my ggggg-grandfather. The upshot: A continent and two centuries away, the effects of Culloden can still be felt.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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