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By Roz, on February 12th, 2010%  My great grandfather Ernest Alfred Bird was born on 26 July 1888 in Lambeth, London, and died on 23 October 1944 in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
He was the youngest son of Alfred Bird and Emma Sharp and lived in the London borough of Lambeth. On 6 November 1915 he married my great grandmother Elsie Lena Moore at St John the Divine in Kennington. According to the marriage certificate the marriage was witnessed by Ernest’s brother Arthur and also by one of his sisters, Hilda. Elsie’s witness was . . . → Read More: Ernest Alfred Bird (1888-1944)
By Roz, on March 16th, 2007% Since I last wrote a post (that would be 11th February…) my maternal grandfather has reviewed the work we have done so far and has been able to add quite a lot. Not all of it “factual” in the genealogical sense, but some background information, confirmation of second-guessed facts, that sort of thing.
We’ve been able to add some detail to the Moore branch of the family (my grandfather’s mother’s family); in particular following Elsie Lena Moore‘s brothers and sisters.
Lilian Moore, Elsie Lena’s eldest (surviving to adulthood) sister we now know married a George . . . → Read More: Update
By Roz, on February 11th, 2007% As my esteemed husband has written below, our trees, transferred in from Family Historian 3.1, are now live and browsable on this site.
The trees work best if you know the ID of the person you’re looking at. A few IDs you may want to follow:
Daisy Douglas Crosbie Henderson: ID 70
Alexander Brand Inglis: ID 383
James Inglis: ID 402
Priscilla Coucher: ID 271
William Bird: ID 212
John Crosbie Aitken Henderson: ID 384
Ada Kathleen Watters: ID 69
William Shaw of Fish Quarter: ID 163
Basil Hall: ID 343
. . . → Read More: Yes, it’s true, the trees are alive.
By Roz, on January 15th, 2007% William Bird, my great great great grandfather, was a tailor born in Marylebone, London, in 1829 or thereabouts. In June 1856 he married Priscilla Coucher, in St Pancras’s Old Church. After the birth of four children (that I know of) he died in Q3 1882, aged “54″ according to the death register.
The William Bird who married Priscilla Coucher has around five or six user-submitted entries in the Family Tree section of www.ancestry.co.uk giving his birth year as 1835, and parents sometimes named as George Bird and Elizabeth Mary Cosham. And this is where it doesn’t quite add up. If . . . → Read More: William Bird: Tailor
By Roz, on December 22nd, 2006% My Dad’s side of the family is notable for the amount of travelling around they did – it seems that each generation moved location as a matter of course. As a contrast, the more I look into my Mum’s side of the family (the Halls and the Birds and their ancestors) the less mobility I see. The Halls are Kent-born for at least five generations – and I have found that the earliest Hall so far in my tree lived on the same road in 1861 as my Great Aunt does today.
But that longevity is trumped by the eight-generation . . . → Read More: Mobility
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