Brief Life History of Nellie May
When Nellie May Bird was born in 1865, in Sangamon, Illinois, United States, her father, John M. Bird, was 31 and her mother, Frances Ellen Greenleaf, was 24. She married Lorin Andrews Etter on 22 June 1887, in Sangamon, Illinois, United States. She lived in Mechanicsburg, Sangamon, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. She was buried in Pickerell Cemetery, Mechanicsburg, Sangamon, Illinois, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (3)
- Nellie M Bird in household of John M Bird, "United States Census, 1870"
- Find a Grave Memorial, Nellie Bird Etter
- Nellie May Bird in household of John M Bird, "United States Census, 1880"
Spouse and Children
1863–1899 Male
1865– Female
Parents and Siblings
1834–1885 Male
1841–1921 Female
Siblings (3)
1865– Female
1869–1906 Male
– Male
World Events (8)
1865
Age 0
1886
Age 21
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
Age 31
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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