When William James Bird was born on 12 October 1818, in South Carolina, United States, his father, Hugh Bird, was 38 and his mother, Mildred W Gooch, was 35. He married Susan Jane Mitchell on 31 October 1839, in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 10 daughters. He lived in Alabama, United States in 1870 and Election Precinct 1 Surles and Coleman, Crenshaw, Alabama, United States in 1900. He died on 31 July 1902, at the age of 83, and was buried in Rocky Mount Cemetery, Highland Home, Crenshaw, Alabama, United States.
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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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