When Valentine Bird was born in 1801, in Everdon, Northamptonshire, England, his father, Richard Bird, was 28 and his mother, Mary Leeson, was 24. He married Elizabeth Maycock on 21 August 1825, in Dunchurch, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Great Everdon, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871 and Badby, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881. He died in 1885, in Everdon, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 84, and was buried in Everdon, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English and Scottish: nickname for a young or a small and slender person, from Middle English brid, bird, burd (Old English bird, brid, perhaps also byrd) ‘bird, young bird’, also ‘young man, young woman, child’.
Irish: Anglicized form of a number of Irish names erroneously thought to contain the element éan ‘bird’, in particular Ó hÉinigh (see Heagney ), Ó hÉanna (see Heaney ), Ó hÉanacháin (see Heneghan ), and Mac an Déaghanaigh (see McEneaney ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘bird’, as for example German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Vogel , French Loiseau , Czech Ptáček (see Ptacek ) and Pták, Polish Ptak .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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