James Baird was born in Takaka, Golden Bay, New Zealand on 6 October 1865 to James Baird and Janet Manson[1]
Marriage
James married Ellen Palmer in Takaka, New Zealand on 15 February 1899.[2] They had 3 children together.
Death & Burial
James died suddenly of heart disease in Wakefield, Tasman on the 6 December 1902 aged only 37 years.[3][4][5]
James was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Wakefield, Tasman District on 9 December 1902.[6][7]
↑1902 Newspaper:
"Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand"
Colonist, Volume XLVI, Issue 10586, 8 December 1902, Page 2 Papers Past Article (accessed 6 July 2023)
↑1902 Newspaper:
"Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand"
Colonist, Volume XLVI, Issue 10587, 9 December 1902, Page 2 Papers Past Article (accessed 6 July 2023)
↑Memorial: Find a Grave (no image), Find A Grave: Memorial #141564696 (accessed 20 July 2023), Memorial page for James Baird (1 Oct 1865-9 Dec 1902), citing Spring Grove Cemetery, Wakefield, Tasman District, Tasman, New Zealand.(date is burial)
↑Burial: "New Zealand, Cemetery Records, 1800-2007", New Zealand Society of Genealogists Incorporated; Auckland, New Zealand; New Zealand Cemetery Records, Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry au Record 60547 #1087356 (accessed 6 September 2023), James Baird burial (died in about 1902) on 9 Dec 1902 in Spring Grove, Marlborough, Nelson.
Acknowledgments
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James: