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From: Wayne Hannay <>
Subject: [WIG] Re... Caird .. family `of Kirkinner
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:36:15 -0800


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Caird" <>
Re: [WIG] Re... Caird .. family `of Kirkinner


> Dear Judy
> Some extracts from my notes:
>
> 26. On 5 February 1843 a JAMES CAIRD married MARGARET
> HENRYSON/HENRISON/HENDRISON
>
> The entry in BURKES LANDED GENTRY 1906 , as supplied to me by Ewart
Library
> is as follows:
>
> HENRYSON-CAIRD OF CASSENCARY
> JAMES ALEXANDER HENRYSON-CAIRD, of Cassencary, Creetown, co,
Kirkcudbright,
> J.P. & D.L., b 24 Feb. 1847; m. 19 Dec. 1877, Alice Mona , only child of
> John Alison, of 90 Lancaster Gate, London, and has issue,
> ALISTER JAMES b. 22 March 1884
> Mr. Caird assumed the additional name of HENRYSON by Patent from the Lyon
> Court in 1897 .
> LINEAGE.- This family settled in Wigtownshire before 1800.
> JAMES CAIRD of Drumfad, m. ISABELLA, dau. of Archibald McNeel, and great
> granddaughter of Alexander Stewart of Tonderghie, & d. 1836, having by her
> (who died 1848) had, with other issue, a second surviving son,
> RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR JAMES CAIRD K.C.B., P.C. LL.D, F.R.S., of
Cassencarry;
> co. Kirkcudbright, J.P. and D.L., cos, Wigtown and Kirkcudbright. He was
> M.P. for Dartmouth 1857-9, and the Stirling Boroughs 1859-65, and was
> subsequently a member of the Inclosure Commission and of the Board of
> Agriculture.
> He was born 1816; m. 1st., 15 Feb 1843, MARGARET, only child of CAPT.
> JOHN HENRYSON, R.E., who was descended from the Henrysons or Hendersons of
> Fordel, and from Robert Henryson, the poet, who died about 1490. By her
(who
> died 14 March, 1863) he had issue,
> 1. JAMES ALEXANDER , now of Cassencary.
> 2. ROBERT HENRYSON , of Southbroom House, Devizes, and Millwall,
> Sandwich, Kent, J. P. Wilts, (Reform Club), b. 10 June 1850; m. 30
April,
> 1879, Annie dau.of James Butchart, J. P., of Bushy Park, Victoria.
> 3. LINDSAY HENRYSON, Major late Border Regiment., b. 2Decembe1860; m. 1st,
5
> November 1891, Janet Laura, dau of the late RowlanD Huntof
> Boreatton,Shropshire, and by her (who d. 1892) has issue,
> 1. James Robert, b. 4 November 1892.
> He m. sndly., 18 October 1894, Marion Adele Flora, dau of Major-General
> William Booth, late R.A., and has issue,
> 2. William James, b. 22 March 1897
> 3. John Lindsay, b. 4 July, 1899
> 4. ANNE HENRYSON, m. 17 April, 1873 Edmund Newman Snow, of Franklyn,
> Exeter, and has issue 2 daus.
> 5. AGATHA MARGARET, m. 1880, the late Charles Emanual
Goodhart,
> of Langley Park, Kent and has issue, three sons.
>
> "Cassencary was sold a few years ago , to James Caird, born 1816, late
M.P.
> for Stirling, which he vacated on appointment as a Commissioner for
Tithes.
> He is the second son of the late James Caird , writer, Stranraer, and his
> wife Isabella, daughter of Archibald M'Neil, California. He married in
1843,
> Margaret, daughter of Captain Henryson, Royal Engineers. She died at Nice
in
> 1863, and had issue:-
> (1) James Alexander Henryson Caird (who married, on 19 December 1877,
Alice
> Mona , only surviving child of John Alison, late of Australia, and
> Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park London);
> (2) Robert Peel Caird
> (3) Lindsay Henryson Caird (married, in April 1873, Edmund N. Snew,
> Exeter);
> (4) Anne Henryson, m. 17 April, 1873 Edmund Newman Snow, of Franklyn,
> Exeter, and has issue 2 daus.
>
> The present owner of Cassencarie (Castle Cary)(which is now a Caravan Park
> and can be found on the internet) is A O Henryson Caird.
>
> I hope this information is of some help
>
> IAN CAIRD (New Zealand)
>
>

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