Brief Life History of Sabina
When Sabina Bird was born on 3 May 1839, in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Frederick Otto Bird, was 28 and her mother, Mary Ann Fenn, was 22. She married Edwin Dempster Smith on 14 April 1857, in Iowa, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Webster Township, Woodward, Oklahoma, United States in 1900. She died on 13 December 1920, in Woodward, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Union Township, Woodward, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Sabina Burd in household of Frederic Burd, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Sabina Burd, "England and Wales, Birth Registration Index, 1837-1920"
- Sabina Bird, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
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World Events (8)
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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