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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Spouse and Children
1920–1989 Male
1923–1987 Female
Parents and Siblings
1890– Male
1890– Female
Siblings (4)
1907– Male
1909– Female
1910– Male
1923–1987 Female
World Events (3)
1924
Age 1
1928 · Women Granted Right to Vote
Age 5
1940
Age 17
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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