09 February 2020

Birds in Your Family Tree?

A group of long-time members had lunch together after Saturday's BIFHSGO meeting. Somehow our topic of conversation got around to unusual names, not that surprising considering those present.

I mentioned my tree has Chicken, Martin, Peacock and Woodcock.

Here's an alphabetical list for birds, one for each letter with the number of hits in the FreeBMD birth index.

A few are missing.

Genealogist-birders  — don't hesitate to help fill in bird names used for surnames starting with the missing letters.

A?
Bird (97039)
Chicken (1720)
Duck (6120)
Eagle (7359)
Finch (44961)
Goose (2219)
Heron (9087)
Ibis (1)
Jay (10178)
Kite (6655)
Loon (110)
Martin (279010)
Nightingale (22161)
Owl (6)
Partridge (31818)
Quail (1109)
Raven (10196)
Sparrow (14502)
Turkey (2)
U ?
V ?
Woodcock (35189)
X?
Y?
Z?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Verdin

Anonymous said...

Bustard and Rook or Rooke

Glenn W said...

Could you please tweet this out for our avian-named friends?