Person:Mary Bird (130)

Note: Mary Bird/Byrd did not marry John Rogers (a theory that was popular in the late 19th century and has since been debunked - see talk page of John Rogers and Rachel Eastham, section John Rogers and Mary Byrd: A Theory Debunked).

1. ↑ Dawson, Nelson L. Genealogies of Kentucky Families: From the Filson Club History Quarterly. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1981)
   3:272.

   'In a later book [in Caroline County] ... we found this under date of June 10, 1756, on page 168: "On the motion of Robert Goodlow & John Rogers its Ordered they have Admr. of the Estate of Mary Eastham & ack. a bond for same." '

2.   Anderson, William Kyle. Donald Robertson and his wife Rachel Rogers of King and Queen County, Virginia: their ancestry and posterity : also a brief account of the ancestry of Commodore Richard Taylor of Orange County, Virginia, and his naval history during the War of the American Revolution. (Detroit, Mich.: unknown, 1900)
   p. 221.

   The author quotes from an 1856 letter from a granddaughter of John Rogers (which he had in his possession), saying “Grandfather, John Rogers, lived and died in King and Queen county. He married Rachel Eastham. She was daughter of Mary Bird, and that is the way Bird came into the family.”

3.   Anderson, William Kyle. Donald Robertson and his wife Rachel Rogers of King and Queen County, Virginia: their ancestry and posterity : also a brief account of the ancestry of Commodore Richard Taylor of Orange County, Virginia, and his naval history during the War of the American Revolution. (Detroit, Mich.: unknown, 1900)
   p. 216.

   The author points out that the Rogers family, when it used the name Bird/Byrd, almost universally spelled it Bird (e.g., ‘John Rogers named one of his sons Bird, and this son always wrote his name this way.’).

4.   Dawson, Nelson L. Genealogies of Kentucky Families: From the Filson Club History Quarterly. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1981)
   3:325.

   The 17 Jul 1694 will of Robert Bird of New Kent and King and Queen counties mentions his 4 children William, Robert, Anna and Mary, and bequeaths 300 acres of land in King and Queen county to his daughter Mary.

5. ↑ Birth year estimated based on estimated birth years of her daughter and siblings, and her own approx. death year.