BIRD OF ECKINGTON
Sarah Bird may be the “Sara
Beard daughter of Maximilian Beard” who was baptised
on 1 December 1650 at Eckington.[1]
Maximilian Bird was buried at Eckington on 26 June 1697.[2]
The marriage of Maximilian Bird and Ann Burgan on 29 March 1651 is recorded in
the Killamarsh parish registers[3]
and the will of Anthony Bird of Killamarsh, written in 1667, mentions his
brother Maximilian.[4]
The family appears to have come from Harthill, where the surname took the form Birdock and similar variations.
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BIRD
1 SARAH BIRD of Mosborough,
Eckington, Derbyshire.
Children of Sarah Bird:
2 i THOMAS
BIRD (1683-ca 1763); m MARY WRIGHT.
ii GEORGE BIRD, bap 21 Sep 1686,
Eckington.[5]
2 THOMAS BIRD of Highlane,
Eckington, sicklesmith, was baptised on 9 April 1683
at Eckington[6]
and died ca 1763.[7] He
married on 2 May 1717 at Beighton, MARY WRIGHT,[8]
daughter of John and Phebe (Hancock) Wright (see here). Mary was
baptised on 19 May 1686 at Beighton and buried on 2 January 1753 at Eckington.
Children of Thomas and Mary (Wright) Bird:
i MARY BIRD, bap 30 Mar 1719,
Eckington,[9]
bur 27 Jun 1719, Eckington.[10]
ii PHEBE BIRD, bap 27 Jun 1720,
Eckington,[11]
bur 4 Jul 1786, Eckington;[12]
m ca 6 Aug 1738, GODFREY HASLAM[13]
(see here).
iii THOMAS BIRD, bap 11 May 1723,
Eckington,[14] d
ca 1764;[15] m
26 Oct 1747, Eckington, ESTHER HASLAM.[16]
iv JOHN BIRD of Eckington, sicklesmith, bap 19 Nov 1727, Eckington;[17]
m 10 Feb 1752, Hathersage, ANN HERNSHAW.[18]
v ELIZABETH BIRD, bap 29 Nov 1730,
Eckington,[19]
bur 27 Mar 1798, Eckington;[20]
m(1) 24 Jul 1753, Eckington, THOMAS SMITH;[21]
m(2) 4 Jul 1763, Eckington, THOMAS WHITFIELD.[22]
[1] Eckington parish registers.
[2] Eckington bishop’s transcripts.
[3] Killamarsh parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[4] Dioceses of Lichfield and Coventry Wills and Probate 1521-1860 (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).
[5] Eckington bishop’s transcripts.
[6] Eckington parish registers. The baptism entry describes him as “Tho: Bird a bastard” and does not name either of his parents. However, he is identified as a son of Sarah Bird of Mosborough, spinster, in Robert Eadon Leader, History of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, 2 vols (Sheffield, 1905-06), 2:137, 237, where the 1726 apprenticeship of Godfrey Haslam to Thomas Bird is also recorded. Thomas Bird was apprenticed on 24 Aug 1691 to William Staniforth of Eckington (Derbyshire Record Office, D750/A/PO/86).
[7] He and his son of the same name were very likely the Thomas Birds buried at Eckington on 4 Nov 1763 and 26 Apr 1764, but it is not certain which entry refers to which individual.
[8] Beighton parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).
[9] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[10] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[11] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[12] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[13] Dioceses of Lichfield & Coventry Marriage Allegations and Bonds, 1636-1893 (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).
[14] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[15] He and his father were very likely the Thomas Birds buried at Eckington on 4 Nov 1763 and 26 Apr 1764, but it is not certain which entry refers to which individual.
[16] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[17] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). He was probably the John Bird buried on 7 May 1785 at Eckington.
[18] Hathersage parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); Dioceses of Lichfield & Coventry Marriage Allegations and Bonds, 1636-1893 (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).
[19] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[20] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[21] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). There was also an Elizabeth Bird who married Isaac Binney at Eckington in 1768, but Isaac and Elizabeth Binney had children baptised into the 1780s, so Isaac’s wife would not be the Elizabeth Bird who was baptised in 1730.
[22] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). There was an Elizabeth Smith who married William Blundell at Eckington in 1765, but it seems more likely that Elizabeth (Bird) Smith was the Elizabeth Smith who married Thomas Whitfield in 1763 because Godfrey Haslam was a witness at the latter marriage and was also a party to the marriage bond (Dioceses of Lichfield & Coventry Marriage Allegations and Bonds, 1636-1893, online at www.findmypast.co.uk).