Ezra Bird

Brief Life History of Ezra

When Ezra Bird was born on 22 February 1841, in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Frederick Otto Bird, was 30 and his mother, Mary Ann Fenn, was 24. He married Eliza Startin in 1872, in Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He registered for military service in 1865. He died on 25 June 1917, in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Ezra Bird
1841–1917
Eliza Startin
1856–1905
Marriage: 1872
Ezra Thomas Bird
1872–1873
Ada M Bird
1875–1960
Anna Eliza Bird
1878–1946

Sources (18)

  • Esaw Bird in household of George Tiffany, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Ezra Bird, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
  • Ezra Bird, "Utah, Territorial Militia Records, 1849-1877"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage

    • Children (3)

    World Events (8)

    1843

    Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.

    1849

    Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States

    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.

    Possible Related Names

    Story Highlight

    Biography: Mary Ann Fenn Bird

    BIOGRAPHY OF MARY ANN FENN BIRD By William Clayton (Her granddaughter’s husband) Mary Ann Fenn was the wife of Fredrick Otto Bird. She came to Utah in 1856 with the Captain Willie Handcart Company. …

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