Person:James Bird (65)

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James Bird
b.Abt 1647 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
d.1 Sep 1723 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 1640
  1. Thomas Bird1640 - 1710
  2. John Bird1641/42 - 1732
  3. Samuel Bird1644 -
  4. James BirdAbt 1647 - 1723
  5. Sarah Bird1649 - 1669
  6. Joseph Bird - 1665
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  James BirdAbt 1647 - 1723
  • W.  Mary George (add)
m. 6 Apr 1669
Spouse and Children
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m. 13 Nov 1679
  1. Thomas Bird1692/93 - 1770
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Facts and Events
Name[2] James Bird
Gender Male
Birth[3] Abt 1647 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 6 Apr 1669 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mary George (add)
Marriage 13 Nov 1679 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Ann Withington
Death[1] 1 Sep 1723 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. ↑ Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners. A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Containing Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1890)
    p. 132.

    James Bird Senr Dyed September the 1st 1723.

  2. ↑ Trask, William B. "Thomas Bird, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and Some of His Descendants", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    Vol. 25, p. 23.

    James Bird [#4], s/o Thomas Bird [#1] and wife Ann, b. abt. 1647, d. 1 Sep 1723, m. (1) 6 Apr 1669 Mary George, m. (2) 13 Nov 1679 Ann Withington.

  3. ↑ NEHGR, p. 75:144, says James was baptized Feb 1644. Source:Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Records of the First Church at Dorchester in New England, 1636-1734, p. 156, publ. 1891, shows the baptism of Samuell Bird "2 Mo : 44" [so April, not February], and interlined over Samuel is the notation "(or James)". Savage (publ. 1860) (1:182) gives only years, 1644 and 1647 for Samuel and James, apparently estimates based on Samuel "bapt. that year [1644]", and "Thomas Bird and His Descendants", NEHGR, p. 25:21-2 (1871), says Samuel bap. April 1644, James, b. about 1647. Neither shows any other information for Samuel, nor is he mentioned in the 1667 will of the father Thomas (NEHGR 16:161). So depending on the provenance of the notation mentioned, which is unknown (or further evidence being presented), it is possible there never was a son Samuel and it was James born in 1644, or this could have been added after the fact, the assumption of 1800's researcher, wondering who was Samuel and why isn't James' baptism found, and thus written into the records book?
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