When William Bird was born in 1809, in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Jeremiah Bird, was 23 and his mother, Martha Janes, was 22. He married Mary Baker on 8 December 1836, in Edlesborough, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1877, in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 68, and was buried in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, 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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