'Bird02'
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Families covered: Bird of Broxton
| Ormerod identifies this family's coat of arms as "Argent, a cross patonce Gules, between four martlets of the second a canton Azure" which, apart from its omitting "of the second", is also given in Visitation (1613). It appears that this family was connected to those on Bird03. | |||||||||||||||
| Richard Le Bird | |||||||||||||||
| m. Marie de Bontishall (dau of Henry de Bontishall) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | David Le Bird | ||||||||||||||
| A. | Hugh Le Bird of Broxton (a 1338) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Agnes de Bickerton (a 1329, dau of William de Bickerton or Beckerton) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | David Le Bird of Broxton (a 1338, 1364) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mabell de Broxton (a 1338, sister/coheir of Henry de Broxton, dau of Thomas?) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Hugh Le Bird (a 1369, 2nd son?) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Alice Bulkeley (dau/coheir of Peter Bulkeley of Broxton) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | David Le Bird 'of Broxton' | ||||||||||||||
| (A) | John Le Bird of Broxton (a 1406) | ||||||||||||||
| (i) | Henry Bird of Broxton (a 1468) | ||||||||||||||
| (a) | John Bird | ||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | Thomas Bird of Broxton (a 1527) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret Dod (dau of William Dod of Broxton) | |||||||||||||||
| ((A)) | Peter Bird of Broxton (d before 1528) - continued below | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Clive (dau of James Clive of Huxley) | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | Maud de Bird possibly of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Dod of Edge | |||||||||||||||
| b.+ | other issue - John, Thomas | ||||||||||||||
| ii. | John Le Bird | ||||||||||||||
| a. | Margery Bird | ||||||||||||||
| m. (after 1369) Roger Bulkeley (son of Peter by Nichola Bird) | |||||||||||||||
| iii.+ | other issue - Richard, William | ||||||||||||||
| B. | Uchtred Le/De Bird connected to David above by dotted line | ||||||||||||||
| i. | David Bird (a c1331) | ||||||||||||||
| ii. | Thomas Bird 'of Wore' of Broxton (a 1333) | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ de Halghton (dau/heir of William de Halghton) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Nichola Bird | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Peter Bulkeley (son of Robert of Bulkeley) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. David Dod of Smith's Pentrey in Broxton (son of John) | |||||||||||||||
| 2. | Hugh Le Bird | ||||||||||||||
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| Peter Bird of Broxton (d before 1528) - continued above | |||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Clive (dau of James Clive of Huxley) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | George Bird of Broxton (a 1560) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Dod (dau of David Dod of Edge) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Thomas Bird of Broxton (a 1564) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Jane Bulkeley (a 1564, dau of Ralph Bulkeley of Halghton (Randall Bulkley of Haughton)) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Richard Bird of Broxton (bur 19.08.1632) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Robinson (dau of John Robinson of Steele) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Richard Bird of Broxton (b c1596, d 1640) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (c07.1620) Sarah Wright (dau of Rev. William Wright of Waverton) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | George Bird of Broxton (b c1624, d 31.12.1702) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (c08.1641) Ellen Adlington (bur 22.05.1644, dau of Hugh Adlington of Adlington) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Ellen Bird (d infant) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Elizabeth Dod (dau of Thomas Dod of Hampton and/or Passall in Shocklach) | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | Elizabeth Bird (b c1649, a 1702) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (sp) Hugh Hamnett of Handley mentioned on Ormerod (Cheshire, vol 3, p448) | |||||||||||||||
| m3. Martha Dutton (b c1632, d 31.12.1701, dau of Peter Dutton of Hatton/Dutton) | |||||||||||||||
| (C) | George Bird of Broxton (b c1660, dsp bur 07.09.1723, 2nd son?) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Whitmore of Barrhill (b 1658-9, d 16.07.1718) | |||||||||||||||
| (D) | Martha Bird (a 1664, d before 1702) | ||||||||||||||
| Ormerod (Cheshire, vol 3, p448) suggests that it was Martha, not her half-sister Elizabeth, who married ... | |||||||||||||||
| m. William Glegg of Whitby | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | William Glegg of Broxton (a 1724) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| (E)+ | other issue - Dutton (dvpsp), Richard (dvpsp), Edward (bpt 05.03.1666, dvpsp), Charles (b c1669, dsp 05.01.1724), Katherine, Margaret, Hannah (dsp before 1702), Sarah (b 10.06.1657, dsp bur 19.10.1657), 5 others (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | Richard Bird (bur 1654) | ||||||||||||||
| (3) | Anne Bird | ||||||||||||||
| m. (20.11.1653) Richard Davenport of Nantwich | |||||||||||||||
| b. | Catherine Bird | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Orton of Broxton | |||||||||||||||
| c. | Frances Bird | ||||||||||||||
| m. George Starkey of Royals Green | |||||||||||||||
Main source(s): Ormerod (Cheshire, vol 2, p371, 'Bird of Broxton'), Visitation (Cheshire, 1613 & 1663, 'Bird of Broxton')
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