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Major James Douglas Laird

Registered: The International Register of Arms, 13th November 2019. Registration No. 0515 (Vol.3).

Arms: Or, in bend three Feathers bend sinisterways Gules.

Crest: Issuing out of flames Or and Gules a Phoenix Gules beaked Or.

Standard: [Assumed in the USA] In the hoist the Arms of Laird (viz: Or, in bend three Feathers bend sinisterways Gules) the fly per fess Argent and Vert charged in the first quadrant with the badge A wyvern passant wings endorsed Gules armed Or eyed Or and Sable collared by a Crown of Ancient Nobility Proper Chained Or; in the second quadrant the badge Three feathers per pale conjoined per fess encircled by a Crown of Ancient Nobility Proper; in the third quadrant the crest of the arms all separated by two transverse bends Or inscribed with the Motto in letters Gules.

Motto: Duty Honor Country.

The Arms of Major
                                                James Douglas Laird

Private Registration: The American College of Heraldry, 25 December 1981, Number 179.

Certification: Chronicler King of Arms of Spain 23rd April, 1985, Protocol 5-1985, Folio 183-185.

Matriculated: The Court of the Lord Lyon, 5th February 1986, volume 53, folio 66.

Arms (illustrated in the style depicted in the Spanish registration) drawn by Quentin Peacock. Standard drawn by Steve Cowan.

The arms, an original design based on a punning of the Scottish name of Laird, were first assumed in November 1981, at New Castle, Pennsylvania.

The Armiger (9th Cavalry Regiment, United States Army retired) is a graduate of the Command and General Staff College with a Master’s Degree in Military Science MS. He is the head of the family, a retired Army Officer and a Vietnam War Veteran who came up through the ranks. His awards include the Combat Infantryman's Badge, Bronze Star and Purple Heart. Currently he is a “right of descent member” of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, est. 1638.

The armiger has long been involved in the research of his family’s history and lineage and is currently a member of the following heritage societies by proven descent from his qualifying ancestors: The Colonial Order of the Crown, The Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent, The Military Order of the Crusades, The Baronial Order of the Magna Charta, The Plantagenet Society, The Winthrop Society, The National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, The Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor, The National Society Sons of the America Revolution, The General Society of the War of 1812, The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and the Military Order of the World Wars.

The armiger is the only son of the late Captain James Douglas Laird, 351st Bomber Group, United States Army Air Force, (born Bristow, State of Oklahoma, 1917) and his wife Marcia Eileen daughter of Grant Garfield Strenick and his wife Myrtle Marian Sanders. His father is the second son of James Edgar Laird, pastor of the Church of Christ (born Scotts Hill, State of Tennessee, 1883) and his wife Iva May, daughter of Jacob Snyder Higginbotham by his wife Rose Ella Pruitt. His grandfather is the second son of William Franklin Laird, Farmer (born Graves County, State of Kentucky, 1848) and his wife Josephine Elizabeth daughter of James Russsell and his wife Elizabeth Taylor. His Great Grandfather is the second son of James Laird (born in the State of North Carolina, 1820) and his wife Winny.

These arms are the exclusive property of Major James Douglas Laird, head of his armorial house, formerly of New Castle in the State of Pennsylvania, now residing in Mesa in the State of Arizona. The right to use of the arms is extended to all lawfully begotten male heirs of the said armiger to the exclusion of all others.

 
 

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