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Historically, the term bonnet laird was applied to rural, petty landowners, as they wore a bonnet like the non-landowning classes.
His father, James Muir, was the son of the 'bonnet laird' of Hayston and Birdston farms near Kirkintilloch, he married Margaret Smith and they had two children Thomas and Janet.