Valentine Bird

Brief Life History of Valentine

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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Family Time Line

Valentine Bird
1801–1885
Elizabeth Maycock
1797–1879
Marriage: 21 August 1825
Mary Bird
about 1826–1888
Ann Bird
1829–
John Bird
1832–
Elizabeth Bird
1835–1901
Richard Bird
1839–
Valentine Bird
1842–
James Bird
1843–

Sources (26)

  • Valentine Bird, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Valentine Bird - Church record: Birth record or certificate: birth: 24 September 1797; Everdon, Northamptonshire, England
  • Valentine Birt, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"

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World Events (7)

1801 · The Act of Union

The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.

1815

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

1823

Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.

Name Meaning

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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