Martha Ann Bird

Brief Life History of Martha Ann

When Martha Ann Bird was born on 20 October 1843, in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Frederick Otto Bird, was 33 and her mother, Mary Ann Fenn, was 27. She married Robert James Dugdale in 1859, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. She lived in Utah, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 23 May 1921, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert James Dugdale
1837–1917
Martha Ann Bird
1843–1921
Marriage: 1859
Robert James Dugdale Jr.
1865–1887
Martha Ann Dugdale
1868–1887
Mary Jane Dugdale
1871–1942
Sarah Elizabeth Dugdale
1874–1959
Lillie May Dugdale
1877–1951
Hannah Belle Dugdale
1880–1910
Lavina Dugdale
1887–1887

Sources (21)

  • Martha Dugdale in household of Robert Dugdale, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Martha Ann Dugdale, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
  • Martha Ann Dugdale, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1849

Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

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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Story Highlight

Biography: Mary Ann Fenn Bird

BIOGRAPHY OF MARY ANN FENN BIRD By William Clayton (Her granddaughter’s husband) Mary Ann Fenn was the wife of Fredrick Otto Bird. She came to Utah in 1856 with the Captain Willie Handcart Company. …

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