Brief Life History of Emma Matilda
Emma Matilda Bird was born in 1875, in Bristol, England, United Kingdom as the daughter of George Bond and Elizabeth Bond. She lived in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Bournemouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911.
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- Emma M Bird in household of George Bird, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
- Emma Matilda Bond, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Emma Matilda Bird, "England, Bristol Parish Registers, 1538-1900"
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World Events (8)
1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
1908
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
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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