Hugh Marvin Bird

Brief Life History of Hugh Marvin

When Hugh Marvin Bird was born on 17 May 1915, in Moulton, Cassia, Idaho, United States, his father, Henry Joseph Bird, was 38 and his mother, Lydia Davis White, was 36. He married Blanche Lo Ree Egbert on 5 August 1936, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1942. He died in February 1993, in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, at the age of 77.

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Family Time Line

Hugh Marvin Bird
1915–1993
Blanche Lo Ree Egbert
1917–1977
Marriage: 5 August 1936
Bird
1938–1938
Marvi Ree Bird
1943–1943

Sources (25)

  • Hugh M Bird, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Hugh M Bird, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"
  • Hugh M. Bird, "Utah, World War II Index to Army Veterans of Utah, 1939-1945"

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1937 · The Neutrality Act

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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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