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Rebecca Baird (Sterrett)

Also Known As: "Beard", "Bard", "Starrett"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Ulster, Ireland
Death: March 03, 1741 (66-76)
Christiana Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, United States
Place of Burial: Christiana Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John Sterrett and Ann Sterrett
Wife of John Baird, of Franklin County
Mother of James Baird; Thomas Beard of Hanover Township, PA; John Baird, Jr.; Hannah Baird; Robert Baird and 3 others

Managed by: Gibson 'Gibby' Brack
Last Updated:

About Rebecca Baird

BAIRD AND BEARD FAMILIES, page 78. < PDF >

Seilhamer says about the record of JOHN BAIRD, of Christiana Hundred. and JOHN BAIRD (who wu a taxable in Chester County, ·1729-44), and the John of Manor of Masque (of which Gettysburg was a part), who was with the squatters in 1739, and died I749-50, _that they may have been one and the same, and possibly ancestor to most of. the Pennsylvania BAIRDS, Robert. Thomas, John, William. James and. Hannah were the children. John of Strabane had sons Andrew and James. James, who inherited the property, remained in Ireland. This James had a son, John, Jr., who married Rebecca (possibly Sterrett): also William, James; Sydney, Rebecca, and Jane, all bom in Ireland. John. Jr., and his wife Rebecca emigrated to America soon after his father's death (his will dated May 30, 1719), and settled in Chris- tiana Hundred, New Castle, Del.


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Rebecca Baird's Timeline

1665
1665
Ulster, Ireland
1678
1678
Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
1700
1700
Ireland or Virginia, USA
1724
July 30, 1724
Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia, United States
1730
1730
1739
1739
County Mayo, Ireland
1741
March 3, 1741
Age 76
Christiana Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, United States
March 1741
Age 76
Christiana Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, United States
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