Matthew Barr Baird was born on 19^th March 1882 at four in the afternoon, at Charleville, Uddingston. The informant, at Bothwell on 7^th April 1882, was M. B. (Matthew Barr) Baird, the child’s father, who was entered as present.

At the time of the 1891 census, Matthew was a scholar, aged 8, living in the family home, Charleville, Uddingston.

In 1901, Matthew was single, 19, employed as an electrical mechanical engineer and living in the family home, West House, Bothwell.

In 1911, Matthew Barr Baird was a visitor in the home of his prospective father-in-law, Peter Stuart Brown, at Auchengrange, Lochwinnoch. He was entered as ‘29, single, manager iron rolling mills, worker, born Lanarkshire, Uddingston’.

Matthew B. Baird Jr, an iron & steel manufacturer (bachelor), aged 29, married H. E. (Helen Eva) Stuart Brown (spinster) on 28^th September 1911 at Lochwinnoch Parish Church, After Banns According to the Forms of the Church of Scotland. His usual residence was entered as West House, Bothwell. The Register was signed by W. Sinclair Stevenson, Minister of the Parish of Lochwinnoch, also by James Mackie, Minister of Wooddean U. F. Church, Bothwell, and by witnesses Harry A. Baird and P. Stuart Brown.

At the time of his daughter Eva Gordon Baird’s birth in 1914 and again when his son Leslie Stuart Baird was born in 1923, Matthew Barr Baird was designated as an iron and steel manufacturer.

Matthew B. Baird was a witness at the marriage of his sister Agnes to Adam John ‘Jack’ Melrose in 1918.

The ‘Journal of the Inst. of Loco. Engineers’, in connection with a ‘Meeting at London, 20^th October 1920’, at p. 460, under ‘Associates’, lists ‘Matthew Barr Baird, Clyde Steel Works, Hamilton’.

Matthew Barr Baird acted as informant on the death certificate of his mother-in-law, Elizabeth Stuart Brown MS Chapman, in 1927. At that time, he appears to have been resident at Dunavon, Strathaven.

At the time of his daughter Eva Gordon Stuart’s marriage in 1939, Matthew Barr Baird was a steel manufacturer.

At the time of his son Leslie Stuart Baird’s marriage in 1951, Matthew Barr Baird was entered as a tea chest manufacturer.

Matthew Barr Baird, a company director (retired), widower of Helen Eva Stuart Brown, died on 13^th March 1961 at 7^h 40^m pm, at Westgate, Strathaven. He was 78 years of age. His parents were entered as Matthew Barr Baird, a master ironmonger, and Margaret Baird MS Archibald, both deceased. The causes of death were certified as carcinoma of splenic flexure and metastasis in the liver. The informant, on 14^th March 1961, was the deceased’s son, Leslie S. Baird, of Avonholme, 40, Townhead Street, Strathaven.

At the time of his son Leslie Stuart Baird’s death in 1977, Matthew Barr Baird was recalled as an iron and steel manufacturer. He was recalled as a steel manufacter on his daughter Eva’s death certificate in 1996.

Forebears

Matthew Barr Baird’s forebears in the three immediately preceding generations can be identified as follows:

Brothers and Sister

Matthew Barr Baird was the fourth child of a family of six; he had an older sister, two older brothers and two younger brothers.

Agnes Wallace Baird was born in 1876.

Archibald Baird was born in 1878 and died in 1884.

Henry Archibald Baird was born in 1880.

John Baird was born on 29^th July 1883 at 4^h, at Charleville, Uddingston. The informant on 16^th August at Bothwell was M. B. Baird, father, present.

William Archibald Baird was born in 1887 and died in the Great War in 1916.