When William Birch was born in 1799, in Whalley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Birch, was 30 and his mother, Ann Nanny Douglass, was 25. He married Sarah Taylor in 1821, in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 9 daughters. He died in 1878, in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 79.
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English, German, Danish, and Swedish: topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood, from an ancient Germanic word meaning ‘birch’ (Old English birce, byrce ‘birch’, Middle High German birche, Old Danish birk). In some cases the German and English name may be derived from any of the places called with this word, such as Birch in Aargau (see Birke ) or Birch in Essex. In Swedish, the name is in many instances ornamental.
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