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« on: Sunday 16 November 08 06:08 GMT (UK) »
For Ceronn and Nev Fouiller: I am new to this chat business – I fell into it by accident this morning, and when I saw your message of 26 July 2008 about George Gwynne Bird I was worried that you were off on a wrong track. After some messing about I got back to the subject and found that you and the others have steamed ahead with Birds relevant to your families. I just wanted to let you know that I am a relative of George Gwynne Bird (all three of them!) and that they are a Herefordshire family. Their crest does indeed have martlets on it, but my grandfather's motto was 'Volare sperno'. My grandfather was the one who updated the Bird entry in Burke's Landed Gentry some time in the 1930s I think, as he and his forebears had kept careful records about the family since 1570. However, George Gwynne Bird MD, son of George Gwynne Bird and Elizabeth Priest, was my grandfather's first cousin twice removed and he may not have known all that much about him. Could you please tell me where you got the information – all new to me – about GGB emigrating to upper Canada in 1833 and trying farming, and that later he was physician to Swansea Infirmary, published a booklet about cholera 1849, and believed in the 'miasma' theory of disease. I would love to add these details to my research but I need to know the source.
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Sorry, fezworth, we have no John Williams Bird, and the only Mary Anne Bird was born 1805 and married firstly Charles William Tasker Bird and then Daniel Lawrence -- no issue from either marriage. In the 1930s our Birds had connections in Jersey, not Guernsey.