Cyril Bird

Brief Life History of Cyril

When Cyril Bird was born on 8 September 1898, in Mendon, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Mormon Bird, was 44 and his mother, Emerine Elizabeth Gardner, was 41. He married Blanche Alverda Sorenson on 22 July 1926, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in United States in 1949 and Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 25 March 1976, in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Cyril Bird
1898–1976
Blanche Alverda Sorenson
1904–1999
Marriage: 22 July 1926
Ladene Bird
1927–2023
Cyril Vaughn Bird
1929–1987
Omer Lamar Bird
1935–1937

Sources (40)

  • Curil Bird, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Cyril Maughan BIRD - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth: 8 September 1898; Mendon, Cache, Utah, United States
  • Cyril Bird, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"

World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1902 · Old Main (Utah State University)

The first building on the Utah State University Campus was named Old Main and is the oldest functioning academic building in Utah. It was built after the current site was approved unanimously by the Board of Trustees for the new college. Construction started in 1889 and the entire building was completed in 1902. During the Spanish Flu Epidemic in 1919, the building was used as a makeshift hospital to take care the effected residents in the surrounding area. Old Main was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

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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