Brief Life History of Ann
When Ann Bird was born on 23 July 1836, in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Frederick Otto Bird, was 25 and her mother, Mary Ann Fenn, was 20. She married Milo Mitchell on 14 October 1857, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Iowa Township, Iowa, Iowa, United States for about 25 years. She died on 1 July 1924, in Oxford, Johnson, Iowa, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Oxford Cemetery, Oxford, Johnson, Iowa, United States.
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- Ann Burd in household of Frederic Burd, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Ann Bird, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Ann Bird, "Iowa, Marriages, 1809-1992"
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1843
Historical Boundaries: 1843: Iowa, Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Iowa, Iowa, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860
Historical Boundaries: 1860: Millard, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Millard, Utah, United States
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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