Brief Life History of Susannah
When Susannah Bird was born on 22 July 1847, in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Frederick Otto Bird, was 36 and her mother, Mary Ann Fenn, was 31. She married Enoch Richins on 15 December 1866, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1856 and lived in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 31 March 1877, in Charleston, Wasatch, Utah, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Charleston, Wasatch, Utah, United States.
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- Susanna Kellog in household of Ezekiel Kellog, "United States Census, 1860"
- Susannah Bird Richens, "Find A Grave Index"
- Susannah Bird, "Utah, FamilySearch, Early Church Information File, 1830-1900"
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1849
Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
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.
1862
Historical Boundaries: 1862: Wasatch, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Wasatch, Utah, United States
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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BIOGRAPHY OF SUSANNAH BIRD
BIOGRAPHY OF SUSANNAH BIRD by Lois Ivie Lovell and Awilda Richins Ivie Susannah Bird was born in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England. She was the daughter of Frederick Bird and Mary Ann Fenn. Sh …
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