Mary BIRD, (* c. 1766 - 1846)

A Dictionary of British Surnames by P. H. REANEY, 1970, Kloof Library, Durban.

p. 33

BIRD, BIRDS, BYRD, BYRDE, BRIDE:

Ernald, William BIRD 1193 P (Y); 1221 ElyA (Sf); Ralph, Robert LE BRID(D) 1235 FFEss, 1243 AssSo; Richard BIRD 1260 AssC; John BRIDE 1332 SRCu; Richard BRIDE alias BIRDE 1568 SRSf. OE BRIDD 'bird', a nickname. Sometimes, no doubt, metonymic for birdclever: Robert BIRDCLEVER 1427 Calv (Y), William BURDCLEVER 1495 FrY, 'bird-catcher'.

P (Y): Pipe Rolls (Rec. Comm. 3 vols. 1833-44; Pipe Rolls Soc. (in progress); Great Roll of the Pipe 26 Hy III, ed. H. L. Cannon, 1918). Yorkshire.

ElyA (Sf): B. M. Cott. Tib. B ii. Suffolk.

FFEss: Feet of Fines (Pipe Roll Soc., 4 vols., 1894-98). Essex. (Essex Arch. Soc., in progress).

AssSo: Assize Rolls. Somerset. (Som. Rec. Soc., 4 vols.), 1897-1929.

AssC: Assize Rolls. Cambridgeshire. (W. M. PALMER, Assizes held at Cambridge, 1260 (1930), M. M. TAYLOR, Cambs Sessions of the Peace (Cambs Antiq. Soc. 55), 1942.)

SRCu: Subsidy Rolls. Cumberland. (J. P. STEEL, Cumberland Lay Subsidy (6 Edw III), Kendal, 1912).

SRSf: Subsidy Rolls. Suffolk. (E. POWELL, A Suffolk Hundred in 1283, Cambridge, 1910; The Rising in East Anglia in 1381, 1896; Subsidy Rolls for 1327, 1524, 1568 (Suffolk Green Books), 3 vols., 1906-10).

Calv (Y): Calverley Charters (Thoresby Soc. 6), 1904. Yorkshire.

FrY: Register of the Freeman of York (Surtees Soc. 96, 102), 1897, 1900.

metonymic: a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated (as "crown" in "lands belonging to the crown").

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MARRIAGE TO WILLIAM BROOKS

21 JUL 1784 at Saint Mary, Putney, London, England

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