Laird name help

[AllenJ]

OK- I'm usually pretty good about this stuff but I know when to pull over and ask for directions.
We have just discovered two new family lines going back into Scotland. One is Colquhoun and the other is Laird.
Obviously Colquhoun is it's own clan and I'm enjoying learning more about it. However I am having trouble finding any clan assosiations with the name Laird. Our Laird family names are mainly from Glasgow and Lanark- this is the late 17th and most of the 18th century if that matters at all.
Thanks!

[cajunscot]

OK- I'm usually pretty good about this stuff but I know when to pull over and ask for directions.
We have just discovered two new family lines going back into Scotland. One is Colquhoun and the other is Laird.
Obviously Colquhoun is it's own clan and I'm enjoying learning more about it. However I am having trouble finding any clan assosiations with the name Laird. Our Laird family names are mainly from Glasgow and Lanark- this is the late 17th and most of the 18th century if that matters at all.
Thanks!

Here's a web site to peruse:

http://www.laird.org.uk/Laird/Laird_Family.htm

Yours aye,

Todd

[AllenJ]

Sinclair it is! Thanks for the help

[gilmore]

Sinclair it is! Thanks for the help

Huh?

The Sinclairs are in the north. Your Lairds are from Glasgow and Lanarkshire....

The only way to determine with any certainty who one is descended from is the painstaking work of tracing one's ancestry back, generation by generation, unless one lucks up with Y chromosome DNA.

[sirdaniel1975]

pg. 411 in Black's "Surname's of Scotland" claims it is Middle English and the name is mentioned in Waldefgat, Berwick & Peeblesshire & Glasgow & Fovern.

pg. 48 in MacKay's "Scottish Surnames" states the name is from Scots laird for Landowner.

[cajunscot]

Sinclair it is! Thanks for the help

Read the web site before making that decision, though.

T.