Brief Life History of Arthur David
When Arthur David Bird was born on 21 April 1880, in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, Vernon David Bird, was 26 and his mother, Mary Ann Devenish, was 25. He married Jessie Zula Davis on 14 September 1905, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in United States in 1949 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. He died on 14 March 1952, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (27)
- Arthur D Bird, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Arthur D Bird, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
- Arthur D. Bird in entry for John Wilford Giles and Laverne Bird, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
Spouse and Children
1880–1952 Male
1880–1957 Female
Children (2)
1906–1985 Female
1911–1911 Male
Parents and Siblings
1853–1885 Male
1855–1899 Female
Siblings (5)
1877–1894 Female
1878–1934 Male
1880–1952 Male
1881–1895 Female
1883–1890 Male
World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Age 1
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Age 11
1900 · Gold for Cash!
Age 20
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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