When Edward Harry Bird was born on 28 August 1858, in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Bird, was 43 and his mother, Harriet Jarrold Goble, was 34. He married Martha Jane Reid on 20 November 1879, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1864 and lived in Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States in 1864 and Star Election Precinct, Beaver, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 20 January 1929, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Vine Bluff Cemetery, Nephi, Juab, Utah, 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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