Brief Life History of Cathleen Blanche
When Cathleen Blanche Bird was born on 4 July 1852, in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Bird, was 37 and her mother, Harriet Jarrold Goble, was 28. She married Jonathan David Wood on 9 October 1871, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 4 October 1933, in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Farmington City Cemetery, Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Blanch Wood in household of J D Wood, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Blanche Bird Wood, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- Blanche Bird in entry for Clifton G Wood, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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World Events (8)
1854 · The Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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Cathleen Blanche Bird was born in Wreatem, Norfolk, England July 4, 1852. Her parents were James Bird and Harriet Goble Bird who lived in Eastern rural England and made their living by caring for shee …
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