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By Roz, on April 24th, 2007% Yes, Gervase.
The (certified copy of the) marriage certificate for William Bird and Priscilla Coucher’s marriage, on June 2nd 1856 in St Pancras, lists the groom’s father as one Gervase Bird, Tailor.
Not what I was expecting, and it flatly contradicts 90% of the trees out there on the internet for the supposed genealogy of William (Some have him as son of George, taken from information on the IGI and assumed to be correct. It isn’t: that William Bird died one year later, see previous posts.).
Investigation shows that there have been just two Gervase Birds on record since 1837. . . . → Read More: William Bird, son of Gervase Bird
By Roz, on April 16th, 2007% My maternal grandfather recently produced some documents to help clarify and confirm some information about the Bird side of the family. We had no idea that he had these documents, but he produced birth certificates for his father (Ernest Alfred Bird), his step-grandmother (Lina Matheson); marriage certificates for his father Ernest to Elsie Lena Moore, and of his grandfather’s second marriage to Lina, as well as a Baptism certificate (never seen one of those before!) for Lina, and Alfred’s death certificate.
Bearing in mind my own mother didn’t know that her great grandfather had married twice (his first wife, Emma . . . → Read More: More Bird information
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 February 1st, 2007% It’s been a while – two weeks is a long time in genealogy.
Firstly – Psychology 101.
When I first set up my family tree on www.ancestry.co.uk I created it as a “Private Tree”. At some point later, it got accidentally saved as a “Public Tree” and therefore available to the whole world to view. Not a problem in itself, apart from the fact that some annoying “feature” of the tree is that you cannot tell it specifically who is alive and therefore who should be marked as “Living” – the tree displayed all my grandfathers’ details despite the . . . → Read More: Ramble…
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
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