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From: "sanford mason jr." <>
Subject: [BIRD-L] Please Change MY Address.
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:32:38 -0600
References: <3.0.6.32.20020129195750.00a56a30@cecasun.utc.edu>


TO Please change to my address not my
husband's.
AM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Bird" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 6:57 PM
Subject: [BIRD-L] Prudence Byrd (no, not the one you think) of England, b.
1600


> Hello to the flock:
>
> I could use some help with a little puzzle concerning a Prudence Byrd,
born
> about 1600 (or a little before) possibly in Essex Co., England. She is
> identified as a daughter of John Byrd, and has a brother named Richard.
> She is a descendant of Symond Bird (his grandchild), who was the brother
of
> William Byrd, the famous Elizabethan composer. This identification is
> found in John Harley's book "William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal"
> (1997) and is taken from the will of another John Byrd, this one another
of
> WB's older brothers. John the brother of William the composer died in
> January 1621/2, and his will was probated in London. He named a LOT of
> relatives in his will! :-) The will is reproduced in Harley's book.
>
> Anyway, this older John Byrd named the children of his nephew John Byrd as
> Richard Byrd and Prudence Byrd. (BTW, the last name spellings are
> irrelevant. They changed sometimes within the same document!)
>
> Of course, I immediately thought of Prudence Bird who married Martin
> Kellogg of Great Leighs, Essex, who indeed had a father named John Bird
> (from the Birds of Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire). This Prudence
Bird's
> ancestry was proved by Myrtle Stevens in TAG about two or three years ago.
> However, the father of "nephew" John Bird was Symond Bird, not a John,
> according to Harley's book (based on some evidence collected for the
> Visitation of London in 1571 by Robert Cooke, and never published.
> However, the pedigree is available at Oxford U., and is reproduced in
> Harley's book). Harley believes it to be authentic.
>
> Also, Prudence Bird of Bishops Stortford and later of Great Leighs, Essex
> did not have a brother named Richard, apparently. So it appears that we
> have another Prudence Bird, also born shortly before 1600, who had a
father
> named John, and was possibly born in Essex (or maybe Wiltshire).
>
> Has anyone run across a birth record/baptismal record for this Prudence,
or
> any other information? I checked the IGI, and there are only two or three
> Prudence Birds (when you eliminate the duplicated/erroneous records) from
> 1541 to 1621, so the name is unusual for the era.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Steve Bird
>
>
>
>
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> Dr. Steven Bird
> Director of Orchestras
> University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
>
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