Brief Life History of Mary W
When Mary W Bird was born on 8 November 1875, in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle, Delaware, United States, her father, Henry C Bird, was 26 and her mother, Elizabeth J. Talley, was 28. She married Joseph R. Petit De Mange on 16 April 1895, in Delaware, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States in 1880 and Concord Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. She died on 12 May 1966, in Lower Chichester Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Chester Bethel Cemetery, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States.
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- Mary W Bird in household of Harry C Bird, "United States Census, 1880"
- Mary W. Bird, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
- Mary W PetitDeMange, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.
The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.
1877 · First National Strike in U.S. Begins In Pittsburgh Against Pennsylvania Railroad
Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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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