Dorothy Mary Bird

Female1923–May 1987

Brief Life History of Dorothy Mary

When Dorothy Mary Bird was born in 1923, in Earl Shilton, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Wilfred Bird, was 34 and her mother, Ethel Wright, was 34. She died in May 1987, in Hinckley, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 64.

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John William Robert Griffiths
1920–1989
Dorothy Mary Bird
1923–1987

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    World Events (3)

    1924

    Age 1

    First UK government led by the Labor party under Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.

    1928 · Women Granted Right to Vote

    Age 5

    Women in England over the age of 21 were granted the right to vote on May 7, 1928.

    1940

    Age 17

    Winston Churchill becomes prime minister. British fighter pilots repel German air attacks in the Battle of Britain. London and other cities badly damaged in German bombing raids.

    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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