NASH Family Tree

BIRD Chronicles

BIRD Branch of the NASH Family Tree

Amanda Matilda NASH (1846-1920) Ancestors

page established July 16, 2010

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NASH Branch of the BIRD Family Tree

updated February 26, 2025

The progenitor of our NASH family tree is Sir knight Alexander NASH (1460–1510). He was born in 1460 and died in 1510 in Digswell, Hertfordshire, England. Alexander was the Knight of the Shire of Hertfordshire. Knight of the shire was the formal title for a member of parliament (MP) representing a county constituency in the British House of Commons, from its origins in the medieval Parliament of England. Alexander was the 14^th great-grandfather of Evelyn Virginia BIRD (1922-2012).

(14th great-grandparents)

Alexander NASH (1460-1510) Sir knight

(13th great-grandparents)

Allyne NASH (1504-1530) & Marie (1512–?)

(12th great-grandparents)

Robert NASH (1525-1550) Sir knight & Marie HOWELL (1531–1645)

(11th great-grandparents)

Robert NASH (1550-1605) & Joan BREWER (1553–1605)

(10th great-grandparents)

John NASH (1575-1656) & Elizabeth PENRICE (1575–1600)

(9th great-grandparents)

John NASH (1596-1650) & Mary (1598-?)

(8th great-grandparents)

Major John Thomas NASH (1616-1687) & Elizabeth TAPP (1615–1676)

(7th great-grandparents)

William Colley NASH (1644-1705) & Hannah LINDERMAN (1700–1740)

(6th great-grandparents)

Abner NASH (1685-1732) & Elizabeth HINTON (1688–1711)

children:

Thomas Abner NASH (1710–1737); Lt. Colonel John Hinton NASH 1711–1776) emigrant; Elizabeth Mary NASH (1715–?); Lucille Tenby NASH (1718–?); Edward NASH (1725–1783)

(5th great-grandparents)

Lt. Colonel John Hinton NASH (1711-1776) & Anne OWEN 1710–1757 emigrant

children:

Colonel John Hinton NASH (1729–1802); Colonel Thomas NASH (1730–1769); Ann Owen NASH (1730–1795); Mary NASH (1733–1812); Lucy NASH (1736–1817); Brigadier General Francis NASH (1740–1777); Governor Abner NASH (1740–1786); Betty NASH (1741–1776); Elizabeth NASH (1743–1790); Margaret NASH (1744–?); Prissilla NASH (1746–?); Lucy NASH (1748–1810); Francis NASH (1748–1777); Thomas NASH (1754–1854); William NASH (1755–1808)

(4th great-grandparents)

Colonel John Hinton NASH (1729-1802) & Margaret "Peggy" CLOYD (1740–1792)

children:

Nancy NASH (1762–?); John NASH (1768–?); Agatha NASH (1774–1830); Thomas Columbus NASH (1775–1828); Mary NASH (1780–1852); Travis Coleman NASH (1781–1844)

(3rd great-grandparents)

Thomas Columbus NASH (1775-1828) & Hannah WEST (1775–1871)

children:

Sarah Claudia NASH (1804–1899); Jesse E. NASH (1805–1839); Joseph NASH (1806–?); John Bolin NASH (1807–1880); William West NASH (1809–1846); James Hilton NASH (1810–1836) (died at the Battle of the the Alamo); Mary Ann NASH (1811–1860); George Washington NASH (1814–1880); Thomas Milton NASH (1816–1864); Nancy NASH (1818–1860); Franklin Wiley NASH (1821–1880); Payton Smith NASH (1822–?); Amanda M. NASH (1825–1893)

(2nd great-grandparents)

John Bolin NASH (1807-1880) & Jane FERGUSON (1808–1876)

children:

Elizabeth Pinckney NASH ((1828–1915): Rowland Bolin NASH (1830–1904); Ferguson NASH (1835–1904); Hannah Virginia NASH (1837–1880); Sarah "Sally" A. NASH (1839–1880); George Washington NASH (1841–1865); Mary Jane NASH (1843–1920); Amanda Matilda NASH (1846–1922); William Payton NASH (1851–1939); Sciota Tennessee NASH (1853–1869)

(great-grandparents)

Amanda Matilda NASH (1846-1920) & George Augustus "Gus" GAY (1840-1879)

children:

Harrett GAY (1864-?), Catherine GAY (1867-?), Drusilla GAY (1868-1948), David GAY (1870-1915), George Washington GAY (1872-?), Thomas Jefferson GAY (1874-?)

(grandparents)

Thomas Jefferson BIRD (1861-1931) & Drusilla GAY (1868-1948)

children:

Thomas Jefferson Bird, (1884-1884); Gus Jefferson Bird (1885-1886); Gertrude Bird (1886-?); Susie Bird (1888-1889); Albert Bird (1889-1908); Hugh Leon BIRD (1925-2001) ; Jeff Augustus "Gus" Bird (1893-1954); Harriet Melinda Bird (1898-1990); Guy Rowland Bird (1898-1949); Thomas Jefferson BIRD II, (1899-1969) ; Drusilla Gay Bird (1905-1991); John William Bird Sr.(1907-?); Annabel Bird (1909-1910); Richard Bruno Bird (1910-1979); Frank Lafayette Bird Sr. (1913-1994)

(father & mother)

Jeff Augustus "Gus" BIRD (1893-1954) & Clara Myrtle GRAY-SADLER Bird (1900-1988)

children:

Guy Edward "Eddie" BIRD (1918-1957): Earl Alford BIRD (1919-1991); Myrtle Elizabeth BIRD Dougall Holzapel (1921-1996); Evelyn Virginia BIRD Linton (1922-2012) J. A. "Jeff Augustus" BIRD (1923-2015); Albert Irvin BIRD (1925-2008); Donald Milton BIRD (1926-1999); Margaret Drusilla BIRD Norwood (1928-2019); Iva Lee BIRD Bryant (1930-1993); Carlton Norris Bird (1931-2002); Franklin Delano "Buddy" BIRD (1934-2016); Frances Dell BIRD Shivers (1934-2014); Mary Louise BIRD Gill (1936); David Brewer Bird (1938-1997); Patricia "Pat" Marjie BIRD Bronstad (1941); Beatrice "Betty" Jean BIRD Jensen (1942)

Nash Name Meaning

English: topographic name for someone who lived by an ash tree a variant of Ash by mis division of Middle English atten ash ‘at the ash’ or a habitational name from any of the many places in England and Wales named Nash from this phrase as for example Nash in Buckinghamshire Herefordshire or Shropshire. The name was established from an early date in Wales and Ireland. Jewish: possibly an Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2^nd edition, 2022