Minnie Bird

Female17 March 1866–12 November 1866

Brief Life History of Minnie

When Minnie Bird was born on 17 March 1866, in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, United States, her father, John Chetwood Bird, was 26 and her mother, Rachel Sayre Luster, was 26. She died on 12 November 1866, in her hometown, at the age of 0.

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Family Time Line

John Chetwood Bird
1839–1893
Rachel Sayre Luster
1839–1913
Minnie Bird
1866–1866
Lillian Bird
1870–1953
Florence May Bird
1871–1957
Louise S Bird
1877–1968

Sources (3)

  • Minnie Bird, "New Jersey, Births, 1670-1980"
  • Minnie Bird, "New Jersey, Deaths, 1670-1988"
  • Minnie Bird, "New Jersey, Births and Christenings, 1660-1980"

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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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