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Jake Bird (1901–1949), American serial killer and burglar; Jake Bird (baseball) (born 1995), American baseball pitcher; Jean Bird (1912–1957), British pilot; John Bird (actor) (1936–2022), British actor and comedian; John Bird (artist) (1766–1829), Welsh landscape artist; John Bird (astronomer) (1709–1776), British astronomer and ...
Fowler is an English and/or Scots surname. Its origin is the Old English fugelere, an occupational name for a bird-catcher or hunter of wild birds. [1] [2] [3] Old English fugel or fugol means "bird" and has evolved into the modern word fowl
—Pseudo-Aristotle, On the Universe, 393b Pliny the Elder, in the fourth book of his Natural History likewise calls Great Britain Albion. He begins his chapter on the British Isles as follows, after describing the Rhine delta: Ex adverso huius situs Britannia insula clara Graecis nostrisque monimentis inter septentrionem et occidentem iacet, Germaniae, Galliae, Hispaniae, multo maximis ...
Murgatroyd (with variants including Murgatroid) is a surname among the English nobility, originating in Yorkshire. [2] Its etymology, according to one source, is as follows: in 1371, a constable was appointed for the district of Warley in Yorkshire .
This is a list of the bird species recorded in England.The avifauna of England include a total of 625 species, of which 14 have been introduced by humans.. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of British Ornithologists' Union (BOU).
The first records of the Snodgrass family in the new world are in the early 18th century in Virginia. The Virginia town of Hedgesville (now West Virginia) was founded by William Snodgrass, who arrived in the American colonies in 1700.
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Surnames of Lowland Scottish origin (1 C, 66 P) Pages in category "English-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,354 total.