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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 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 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 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 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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