Brief Life History of Lucy Elizabeth
When Lucy Elizabeth Bird was born on 23 May 1821, in London, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Bird, was 34 and her mother, Susanna Littleford, was 36. She married Archibald Edward McLean on 24 December 1841. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Passenham, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1860. She died on 31 August 1864, in England, at the age of 43.
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- Lucy Mc Lean in household of Archibald Mc Lean, "United States Census, 1860"
- Lucy Mclean, "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007"
- Lucy Madson in entry for Thomas Bird Madson, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
1831 · Old London Bridge Opens
"The popular childhood rhyme ""London Bridge is Falling Down"" refers to the infamous overpass above the Thames River. By the 19th century the bridge had started to fall apart."
1834 · Removal of Menagerie from the Tower of London
The royal menagerie was something more of a zoo with different types of animals and was removed from the tower in 1835.
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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