Talk:Bird, Savage & Bird

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Family connections[edit]

The business and social links between the various families associated with Bird Savage & Bird is demonstrated in a letter between Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Vaughan dated 25 February 1783. The Bird brothers were meeting with Vaughan in Paris and carried messages, documents and gifts between him, Benjamin Franklin and William Temple Franklin. ^[1]

Bird, Savage & Bird - Family connections^[2]

Thomas Bird
(1694–1746)
m
Elizabeth Martyn
(1695–1758)

John Manning
(1703–1738/9)
m
Sarah Coventry
(1711–?)

Robert Bird
(1723–1788)
m
Mary Merttins^[3]^[4]
(1722–1804)

Mary Bird
(1724–1780)
m
Abel Smith II
(1717–1788)

William Coventry Manning
m
Elizabeth Ryan

Rebecca (Manning)
Hamm

John Savage

Elizabeth Smith
(1758–1789)

William Manning
(1763–1835)

Elizabeth Manning
(1756–1817)

Martha Manning
m
John Laurens
(1754–1782)

Sarah Manning
m
Benjamin Vaughan
(1751–1835)

Benjamin Savage
m
Elizabeth Dunn^[5]

Robert Bird
(1760–1842)
m (cousin)
Lucy Wilberforce Bird
(1768–1847)

Henry Merttins Bird
(1755–1818)

Dotted line = married

References

^ “To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan, 25 February 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-39-02-0131. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 39, January 21 through May 15, 1783, ed. Ellen R. Cohn.(see note 8) New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, pp. 212–216.]
^ Oliver, Vere Langford (1910). Caribbeana : being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies. London: Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke. p. 242/3. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
^ "Died, Mrs Mary Bird aged 78". No. Page 4. The Morning Post London, Greater London, England. 5 March 1804. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
^ "Will of Mary Bird, Widow of Walcot Bath , Somerset". The National Archive. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
^ Burke, Sir Bernard (1863). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Harrison. p. 1334. Retrieved 19 October 2020.

[1] “To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan, 25 February 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-39-02-0131. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 39, January 21 through May 15, 1783, ed. Ellen R. Cohn.(see note 8) New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, pp. 212–216.]

[2] Oliver, Vere Langford (1910). Caribbeana : being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies. London: Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke. p. 242/3. Retrieved 3 February 2021.

[3] "Died, Mrs Mary Bird aged 78". No. Page 4. The Morning Post London, Greater London, England. 5 March 1804. Retrieved 17 July 2021.

[4] "Will of Mary Bird, Widow of Walcot Bath , Somerset". The National Archive. Retrieved 17 July 2021.

[5] Burke, Sir Bernard (1863). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Harrison. p. 1334. Retrieved 19 October 2020.

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