When William Bird was born on 24 March 1795, in Roaring Creek, Mayberry Township, Montour, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, James M Bird, was 40 and his mother, Cynthia Ann Osmun, was 45. He married Margaretta Moyer on 13 July 1816, in Mount Pleasant MM, Henry, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Danville, Montour, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. He died on 20 August 1869, in Mount Pleasant, Henry, Iowa, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Forest Home Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Henry, Iowa, 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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