When Mary Hannah Beard was born on 29 May 1860, in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Beard Jr., was 23 and her mother, Mary Ann Openshaw, was 36. She married Thomas Birch on 28 March 1878, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in St. Anthony, Fremont, Idaho, United States in 1900 and Wilford, Bingham, Idaho, United States for about 20 years. She died on 17 December 1947, in Rexburg, Madison, Idaho, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Wilford, Fremont, Idaho, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1879: Oneida, Idaho Territory, United States 1885: Bingham, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Bingham, Idaho, United States 1893: Fremont, Idaho, United States 1913: Madison, Idaho, United States
Historical Boundaries 1883: Bingham, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Bingham, Idaho, United States 1893: Fremont, Idaho, United States
English:
nickname for a bearded man (from Middle English berd, Old English beard). To be clean-shaven was the norm in non-Jewish communities in northwestern Europe from the 12th to the 16th century, the crucial period for surname formation. There is a placename and other evidence to show that this word was used as a byname in the Old English period, when beards were the norm; in this period the byname would have referred to a large or noticeable beard. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other languages, in particular German Barth 1.
habitational name from a place called Beard in Derbyshire (now represented by Beard Hall and Beardwood Farms in New Mills parish), which derives its name by dissimilation from Old English brerd ‘rim, bank’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesPIONEERS OF 1884 THOMAS and MARY HANNAH BEARD BIRCH Thomas Birch was a son of James and Mary Ann Hales Birch and was born at Bromwich, Staffordshire, England June 29, 1848. His father was a moulder …
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