Brief Life History of Elizabeth Ann
When Elizabeth Ann Bird was born on 7 July 1850, in East Wretham, Norfolk, England, her father, James Bird, was 35 and her mother, Harriet Jarrold Goble, was 26. She lived in East Wretham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 13 December 1865, in Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States, at the age of 15.
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Sources (8)
- Elizabeth Bird in household of James Bird, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Elizabeth Ann Bird, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
- Elizabeth Ann Bird, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (4)
1851
Historical Boundaries: 1851: Utah Territory, United States 1852: Juab, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Juab, 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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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