When Doris H Beard was born in 1905, in Torrey, Yates, New York, United States, her father, Charles King Beard, was 45 and her mother, Frances Wagener, was 38. She died in 1911, in Torrey, Yates, New York, United States, at the age of 6, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Torrey, Yates, New York, United States.
English:
nickname for a bearded man (from Middle English berd, Old English beard). To be clean-shaven was the norm in non-Jewish communities in northwestern Europe from the 12th to the 16th century, the crucial period for surname formation. There is a placename and other evidence to show that this word was used as a byname in the Old English period, when beards were the norm; in this period the byname would have referred to a large or noticeable beard. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other languages, in particular German Barth 1.
habitational name from a place called Beard in Derbyshire (now represented by Beard Hall and Beardwood Farms in New Mills parish), which derives its name by dissimilation from Old English brerd ‘rim, bank’.
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