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Andrew BIRD (1572–1642) & Elizabeth CRUMPE (1575–1637)

7^th great-grandparents of Thomas Jefferson BIRD (1861-1931)

8^th great-grandparents of Jeff Augustus “Gus” BIRD (1893-1954)

9^th great-grandparents of Evelyn Virginia BIRD Linton (1922-2012)

Andrew BIRD (1572-1642) was born in 1572 and died on November 6, 1642 in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Andrew was the son of John BIRD (1545–1615) & Colleen CROSSART (1550–1621). John was born in 1545 and died on November 13 1615, both in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Colleen was born in 1550 and died on January 29, 1621 both in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. [i] They all were members of the Church of Saint John the Evangelist, Dublin, Ireland and were all buried there. [ii] Andrew married Elizabeth CRUMPE (1575–1637) on November 8, 1595, in the Church of Saint John the Evangelist, Dublin, Ireland. [iii]

Andrew & Elizabeth had one known child:

Thomas BIRD (1598–1662) born on May 17, 1598 in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Married Mary BELDEN (1600–1664) on November 14 1619 in the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Dublin, Ireland. [iv] Mary was born in 1600 in Hepstonstall, Yorkshire, England. [v] They emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1631. [vi] Thomas died on August 10, 1662 in Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut. Mary died in March 1664 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. [vii]

The Church of Saint John the Evangelist

The Church of Saint John the Evangelist was a former Church of Ireland church located on the west side of Fishamble Street in the center of old Dublin, Ireland. Some of its parish records survive.

According to Sir John Gilbert the church was built in 1168 by a native Irishman called Giolla Michell. [viii] The church was then attached to the Church of the Most Holy Trinity (Christ Church), which was run by the Augustinian Order. Fishamble Street, in those times reached only as far as the Music Hall, the rest, where the church was located, was called Bothestret. In the church there was a chapel to St. Mary and one to St. John, which was used by the Guild of Tailors. [ix]

An Arland Ussher (died 1557), nephew of the Mayor of Dublin, rebuilt the church. The new church consisted of a chancel, nave and two aisles. There were vaults underneath the church and a belfry contained three bells. [x]

The church was re-built in 1681. Its walls were only 24 feet high. There were 42 pews, which were shared among several families. The names Bird, Bladen, Hutchinson, Forster, Crumpe, Crossart, Thompson, Grimes, Reeves, Stacey and Shipley, among others, are recorded. [xi]

Sources:

[i] Irish Genealogy.ie: Publisher Irish Genealogy.ie; Publisher Location internet; Web Address churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/f37f4c 0355573……. Ireland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1620-1911 [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620–1911. Index. Salt Lake City, Utah: Family Search. FHL Film Number: 824047

[ii] Irish Genealogy.ie: Publisher Irish Genealogy.ie; Publisher Location internet; Web Address churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/f37f4c 0355573

[iii] Irish Genealogy.ie: Publisher Irish Genealogy.ie; Publisher Location internet; Web Address churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/f37f4c 0355573

[iv] Irish Genealogy.ie: Publisher Irish Genealogy.ie; Publisher Location internet; Web Address churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/f37f4c 0355573……… Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.

[v] Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.

[vi] FARMER, JOHN. A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New-England; Containing an Alphabetical List of the Governours, Deputy-Governours, Assistants or Counsellors, and Ministers of the Gospel in the Several Colonies, from 1620 to 1692; Graduates of Harvard College to 1662; Members of the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company to 1662; Freemen Admitted to the Massachusetts Colony from 1630 to 1662; With Many Other of the Early Inhabitants of New-England and Long-I Page 33; Annotation: Excellent directory of the first settlers of New England. Drake's additions and corrections (no. 1666) are found in the G.P.C. published 1936 reprint and in no. 9151, Tepper, Passengers to America, pp. 468-470.

[vii] Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.

[viii] Gilbert, John (1854). A History of the City of Dublin. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[ix] Samuel, Carlyle Hughes. The Church of S. John the Evangelist, Dublin, Dublin, 1889. Reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, 2009.

[x] Ossory: Distinguished Dubliners

[xi] Dublin's burial grounds and graveyards, by Vivien Igoe. Wolfhound, Dublin, 2001

Below: Church of Saint John the Evangelist Dublin, Ireland, photo by Christopher Doyle

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