When Ann Bird was born on 13 August 1853, in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Andrew Bird, was 24 and her mother, Ann Shill, was 30. She married Meredith Dawson on 13 December 1873. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Summit, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 23 December 1938, in Henefer, Summit, Utah, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Henefer, Summit, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1859: Summit, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Summit, Utah, United States
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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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