A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours (1836)
ti, facere, experiri. Estates—In Staffordshire, Cheshire, andDerbyshire. Seat—Linley Wood, in the county ofStafford. MAC BRAIRE, OF TWEEDHILL AND BROADMEADOWS. MAC BRAIRE, JOHN-JOSEPH, esq. of Tweedhill and Broadmeadows, in thecounty of Berwick, a magistrate and a deputy lieutenant for that shire,… … The name of Mac Braire, or Mac Briar,is one of some antiquity in Dumfriesshire,and the adjoining counties on the south-westborder of Scotland. Since the middle of the last century, thepresent family has represented the MacBrairs of Netherwood, frequently alludedto in old local histories, and…
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