My Family Tree

James Melbourne Laird
James Melbourne (J.M.) Laird was b. ca. 1870 in Lower Freetown. He worked as a farm labourer on a MacMurdo farm in North Bedeque during his younger years. He eventually purchased a farm at Kelvin
and m. 1. Jane (Walker) Humphrey (1855-1927), a widow. They had two ch.: Harold and Hattie, who married Robert MacDonald.
J.M. Laird also had two-step daughters: Myra, and Marion (Humphrey) who m. Alex Tulloch and lived at Swampscott, Mass.
Upon the death of his first wife, J.M. m. 2. a spinster, Miss Henrietta Jardine, who was b. at Upper Freetown (see James Corrie Jardine history). They resided at Kensington. His son Harold took over the farm.
J M. Laird operated a farm at Kelvin and also was a fox breeder. He was the winner of many livestock prizes and was a president of the Maritime Livestock Breeders Assoc. He was also a keen horseman. He was Mayor of Kensington for many years and served as elder and superintendent of Sabbath School at the Kensington United Church.
J.M. Laird d. at Kensington on 19 Jan. 1940 after suffering a heart attack."

History of Freetown from Island Lives website

According to a history of Kelvin Grove, Jane Walker 1854-1927 was the daughter of Daniel (or David) Walker.