There was not just one progenitor of surname BIRD families in ‘Rupert’s Land’ and the North West, as the two family lines shown below illustrate (and more may follow as research continues).
A) James Curtis Bird and Elizabeth Montour, Red River Settlers beginning c. 1821 (with step-families)
1. BIRD, James Curtis ‘Sr.’. Born c. 1773, Mitchum, Surrey/ Acton, Middlesex, London, England, to James BIRD and Elizabeth CURTIS; brother to Elizabeth (baptized 3 December 1777), William, George (baptised 4 June 1779), Charles James, Levi (baptized 11 April 1782), Mary Downes (baptized 8 January 1784); HBC career; signed on 23 April 1788 HBC service; writer 1788–1792 York Factory; writer 1792–1793 Cumberland House; 1st informally married c. 1792; ‘in charge’ 1793–1794 South Branch House, 1794–1795 Nepawi, 1795–1797 Carlton House; 2d informally married c. 1798; trader 1797–1799 Carlton House; trader 1799–1803 Edmonton House and 1803–1813 supervising inland posts; 3d informally married by c. 1805 (because informally married to more than one woman, gossiped to have practiced polygamy, but may have separated from one wife and married another, while still providing support for the earlier spouse and offspring); Chief of District 1813–1816 Edmonton; Chief of District 1816–1817 Carlton; Acting Governor 1817–1818 Rupert’s Land; Chief of District 1818–1820 Cumberland; Chief Factor 1820–1821 Fort Garry, Red River; formally married, 20/ 30 March 1821 Red River, to 3d spouse; as many as 14 children, although their names and ages (and mothers) have not been conclusively established (records are imprecise and contradictory), but at least 10 appear to have been born before 1821; Chief and Factor in charge of District 1821–1824 Red River (with furlough year, 1822–1823, to establish farmstead); retired 1824;
• age 53, listed 1827 Red River census, with 1 spouse, 3 sons (over age 16), 6 sons (under age 16), 5 daughters (over age 15), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 barn, 4 stables, 3 horses, 1 mare, 1 bull, 12 cows, 12 oxen, 8 calves, 11 swine, 3 carts, 2 ploughs, 2 harrows, 1 boat, 1 canoe, 16 cultivated acres;
• age 54, listed 1828 Red River census, with spouse, 5 sons (under age 16), 1 daughter (over age 15), 1 daughter (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 barn, 4 stables, 2 horse, 1 mare, 2 bulls, 10 cows, 10 oxen, 18 calves, 24 swine, 2 carts, 2 poughs, 2 harrows, 1 canoe, 10 cultivated acres;
• age 54, listed 1829 Red River census, with spouse, 3 sons (over age 16), 4 sons (under age 16), 2 daughter (over age 15), 1 daughter (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 barn, 1 stable, 1 horse, 3 mares, 1 bull, 13 oxen, 16 cows, 29 calves, 70 swine, 3 carts, 3 ploughs, 3 harrows, 1 boat, 1 canoe, 24 cultivated acres;
• age 55, listed 1830 Red River census, with spouse, 2 sons (over age 16), 4 sons (under age 16), 1 daughter under age 15), and 4 houses, 4 stables, 1 barn, 3 horses, 2 mares, 1 bull, 15 cows, 8 oxen, 20 calves, 40 pigs, 3 carts, 2 ploughs, 3 harrows, 1 boat, 1 canoe, 28 cultivated acres (and 4 adult men, 4 adult women, 2 boys residing as servants — all born in ‘Rupert’s Land’);
• age 56, listed 1831 Red River census, with spouse, a married man and married woman, an unmarried man, 2 sons (over age 16), 4 sons (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 2 houses, 3 stables, 1 barn, 4 horses, 1 mare, 30 oxen, 3 bulls, 30 cows, 10 calves, 30 pigs, 3 ploughs, 3 harrows, 6 carts, 1 boat, 1 canoe, 25 cultivated acres;
• age 57, listed 1832 Red River census, with spouse, 2 sons (over age 16), 3 sons (under age 16), 1 daughter (over age 15), 1 daughter (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 barn, 1 stable, 2 horses, 1 mare, 12 oxen, 2 bulls, 13 cows, 6 calves, 30 pigs, 2 plows, 3 harrows, 2 carts, 2 canoes, 33 cultivated acres;
• age 58, listed 1833 Red River census, with spouse, an unmarried man, an unmarried woman, 1 son (over age 16), 4 sons (under age 16), 1 daughter (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 3 horses, 1 mare, 12 oxen, 2 bulls, 16 cows, 6 calves, 20 pigs, 3 ploughs, 2 harrows, 3 carts, 1 canoe, 33 cultivated acres;
widowed 1834; formally married, 22 January 1835 St. John’s, Red River, to 4th spouse;
• age 60, listed 1835 Red River census, with spouse, 1 son (over age 16), 3 sons (under age 16), 1 daughter (under age 15), and 2 houses, 3 stables, 1 barn, 2 horses, 13 oxen, 2 bulls, 8 cows, 10 calves, 2 ploughs, 2 harrows, 3 carts, 1 canoe, 30 cultivated acres;
• age 63, listed 1838 Red River census, with spouse, 2 sons (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 2 houses, 3 stables, 1 barn, 1 horse, 1 mare, 8 oxen, 1 bull, 8 cows, 16 calves, 4 pigs, 2 ploughs, 2 harrows, 3 carts, 1 boat, 1 canoe, 30 cultivated acres, 1 windmill, 1 ice house;
• listed 1840 Red River census, with spouse, 2 sons (over age 16), 1 son (under age 16), 3 daughters (under age 15), 1 male servant, 3 female servants, and 2 houses, 1 stable, 1 barn, 1 horse, 2 mares, 9 oxen, 2 bulls, 10 cows, 13 calves, 11 pigs, 2 ploughs, 2 harrows, 3 carts, 1 boat, 1 canoe, 30 cultivated acres, 1 windmill;
• age 68, listed 1843 Red River census, with spouse, 5 sons (over age 16), 1 son (under age 16), 2 daughters (over age 15), 4 daughters (under age 15), and 2 houses, 3 stables, 1 barn, 2 horses, 3 mares, 12 oxen, 1 bull, 10 cows, 11 calves, 6 pigs, 3 ploughs, 3 harrows, 6 carts, 2 canoes, 30 cultivated acres, 1 windmill;
?• listed 1846[/ 1847?] Red River census, with spouse, 2 sons (over age 16), 1 son (under age 16), 1 daughter (over age 15), 1 daughter (under age 15), and 1 house, 2 stables, 2 barns, 3 horses, 2 mares, 20 oxen, 1 bull, 14 cows, 6 calves, 16 pigs, 2 ploughs, 2 harrows, 5 carts, 1 canoe, 20 cultivated acres;
• age 74, listed 1849 Red River census, with spouse, 1 unmarried man, 1 unmarried woman, 1 son (over age 16), 1 son (under age 16), 1 daughter (over age 15), 1 daughter (under age 15), 1 house, 3 stables, 1 barn, 2 horses, 1 mare, 12 oxen, 1 bull, 9 cows, 11 calves, 5 pigs, 2 plows, 2 harrows, 4 carts, 1 canoe, 1 boat, [20?] cultivates acres;
died 18 October 1856, Red River, age 84; buried 24 October 1856, St. John’s, Red River; left an estate, excepting real property, valued at under £4,000, the bulk of which was left to his daughter and son by his 4th marriage — Eliza Margaret BIRD and Curtis James BIRD. Birds Hill Village, MB, was founded on or near James Bird’s property (3,000 acres with a rise of land originally known as Pine Hill, northeast of Upper Fort Garry).
+ Unidentified Woman. Indigenous; reputedly ‘Snake’ so sometimes assumed to be Shonone/ Shononi, but, given James Bird’s location at the inferred time of marriage, was more likely to have been Assiniboine/ Stoney/ Nakoda or even A’ani/ A’aninin/ Haaninin/ Atsina/ “White Clay People”/ Gros Ventre. (It is not clear in fur trade records whether, in this period of Canadian history, the name ‘Snake’: referred to Northern Paiute people; was inaccurate; or was meant to identify an entirely unrelated, non-Paiute people. Notably ‘Sioux’ — of which the Assiniboine/ Stoney/ Nakoda were a part — was mistranslated in some accounts as deriving from a Chippewa/ Ojibwe word meaning “little snake.” But as well, throughout most records, the Piegan Blackfoot referred to the A’aninin as “Piik-siik-sii-naa,” which translates as “snakes.”)
2. BIRD, Margaret/ Marguerite. Born c. 1787 “in the Snake Indian Settlement“, father unidentified; ‘Cree’/ ‘Halfbreed’; adopted by James Curtis BIRD at Rocky Mountain House (probably on the occasion of his country marriage to her mother); 1st married 1809; formally married 10 May 1825 Red River; baptized 30 September 1833 Red River?; died 1847/ 1849; buried 9 September 1849 St. Andrew’s, Red River.
+ HOURIE/ HOORY/ HOWRIE, John ‘Sr.’ Born 1775/ 1779, Orkney; HBC career; died 1857; buried 18 August 1857 St. Andrew’s, Red River.
3. HOURIE/ HOORY/ HOWRIE, John Henry ‘Jr.’ Born c. 1810, North West; baptized 5 June 1823 Red River; married 2 January 1833 Red River; farmer, resided 1875 St. Clements MB; scrip affidavit 1875; died 25 April 1896 St. Clements MB.
+ DENNETT, Janette/ Janet/ Jane ‘Jessie’/ ‘Jessy’. Born c. 1815, North West, to William DENNET ‘Scotch’ and Sophia BALLANTYNE/ BALLENDINE ‘Cree’ [see BALLENDINE page]; baptized 5 June 1823 St. John’s, Red River; resided 1875 St. Clements MB; scrip affidavit 1875.
4. HOURIE, [Children]. [See BALLENDINE page.]
3. HOURIE/ HOORIE, Robert. Born c. 1815, North West; baptized 5 June 1823 Red River; married 28 November 1837 St. Andrew’s, Red River; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census; farmer, resided 1875 St. Clements MB; scrip affidavit 1875.
+ ANDERSON/ ‘HENDERSON’, Christiana/ Christine ‘Christy’. Born c. 1825 St. Andrew’s, Red River, to James ANDERSON/ ‘HENDERSON’ ‘of Orkney’ and Mary DEMORAN ‘Saulteaux’; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census; resided 1875 St. Andrews MB; scrip affidavit 1875.
4. HOURIE, Catherine. Born 24 December 1845 St. Andrew’s, Red River; with spouse, listed 1870 Rat Creek, Whitemud MB census; resided 1877 Portage la Prairie MB; scrip affidavit 1877.
+ SHANNON, William. Born c. 1837 Ireland, to Thimothy SHANNON and an unidentified woman; with spouse, listed 1870 Rat Creek, Whitemud MB census.
5. SHANNON, Kate. Born c. 1867; with parents, listed 1870 Rat Creek, Whitemud MB census.
5. SHANNON, William. Born c. 1870; with parents, listed 1870 Rat Creek, Whitemud MB census.
4. HOURIE, Peter. Born 1848/ 1849 St. Clement’s, Red River; baptized 19 January 1848 Red River; farmer, resided 1875 St. Clements MB; scrip affidavit 1875.
?+ THOMAS, Margaret Ann. previously married PEEBLES [see THOMAS page].
4. HOURIE/ HOORY, John. Born April 1852 St. Andrew’s, Red River; married 24/ 27 January 1870 Poplar Point, Red River?; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; widowed 1873; farmer, resided 1875 St. Clements MB; scrip affidavit 1875; resided 1885 Battleford [SK]; resided 1901 St. Marks.
+ SWAIN, Matilda. Born March 1855 St. Andrew’s, Red River, to James SWAIN and Margaret/ Margeurite RACETTE [see SWAIN page]; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; died 20 March 1873, age 18; buried 23 March 1873 St. Andrews MB/ Poplar Point MB?; father’s scrip affidavit 1875.
5. HOURIE, Sarah Ann/ Anne. Born 20 January/ 24 May 1870 St. Andrew’s, Red River; died 2 March 1870/ 1871, age 1 m./ 2 mos.?; buried 2 March 1871? St. Clements MB; father’s scrip affidavit 1875; father’s scrip declaration 1877.
+ BABY, Annabelle ‘Bella’. Born to Baptiste BABY and Mary COURCHENE.
5. HOURIE, Sarah Jane. Born 19 April 1885 Battleford [SK]; father’s scrip claim 1901.
4. HOURIE/ HOORIE, Philip. Born 15 May 1855; with parents, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census; farmer, resided 1875 St. Clements MB; scrip affidavit 1875.
4. HOURIE/ HOORIE, Isabel/ Isabella ‘Bella’. Born c. 1856; with parents, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census; age about 17, married St. Peter’s MB; listed under #346 St. Peter’s Band; 6 children all died in infancy; ‘deserted’ by spouse (at Qu’Appelle?); lived partly with father and partly with brother John at South Branch [SK]; met c. 1883 Charles BIRD at South Branch [SK]; withdrew from treaty 1886; resided 1886 Battleford; returned c. 1887 to Portage la Prairie MB; moved c. 1888 to Selkirk MB, lived with sister part time at Mapleton MB.
+ STEVENSON/ STEVENS, Thomas ‘Tom’ ‘Jr.’ member, St. Peter’s Band; separated c. 1882 from spouse; joined Pasquah’s Band then remarried.
+ BIRD, Charles. Born to William George BIRD and an unidentified woman; brother to Jim BIRD; grain farmer, South Branch [Prince Albert SK].
5. BIRD, Thomas Albert. Born 18 March 1884 Mapleton MB/ in the house of uncle John HOURIE and aunt ‘Jane'[?], South Branch [Prince Albert SK]/ Mapleton, Red River; ‘illegitimate’; resided 1901 Tyndale MB; scrip claim 1901; scrip index.
4. HOORIE, Henry/ Henri. Born c. 1858; with parents, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census.
4. HOURIE/ HOORIE, Maria/ Euphenia. Born June 1857/ 1860; with parents, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census; ‘spinster’ resided 1875 St. Clements MB; scrip affidavit 1875.
4. HOORIE, Joseph. Born c. 1862; with parents, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census.
3. HOURIE/ HOORY/ HOORIE, Thomas. Born c. 1820; baptized 5 June 1823 Red River.
+ SINCLAIR, Mary Ann. Born c. 1825 to William SINCLAIR and Elizabeth ANDERSON.
4. SINCLAIR/ HOURIE, John. Born 2 October 1847/ 1848; baptized 7 November 1848 Red River; [LAC scrip affidavit instead links to spouse].
+ BABY/ BABIE/ BABYE, Jane. Born 25 December 1851 Poplar Point, Red River, to Jean Baptiste BABY and Mary COURCHENE; scrip affidavit 1875.
4. SINCLAIR/ HOURIE, Elizabeth. Born 14 October 1849 St. Andrew’s, Red River; baptized 16 December 1850 Red River; listed? 1870 St. Andrews MB census; resided 1875 St. Clements MB; scrip affidavit 1875; scrip index.
+ THOMAS, Louis.
3. HOURIE, Jane. Born c. 1824; died young.
3. HOURIE, George. Born c. 1825 St. Andrew’s, Red River; baptized 19 April 1825 St. John’s, Red River; 1st married 13 October 1845 St. Andrew’s, Red River; with 2d spouse, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; died 27 January 1875; buried 30 January 1875 St. Pauls MB.
+ COOK, Eleanor ‘Helen’/ ‘Ellen’. Born c. 1826; children; buried 15 September 1859 St. Andrew’s, Red River.
4. HOURIE, Mary Ann. Born 15 September 1846 St. Andrew’s, Red River; resided 1875 St. Andrews MB; scrip affidavit 1875.
+ CROMARTIE/ CROMARTY, William. resided 1900 Birch Hills [SK].
5. CROMARTIE/ CROMARTY, Caroline Frances. Born 20 April 1879 Halcro [SK]; resided 1900 Red Sun Hill; scrip claim 1900.
+ ADAMS, Horace Charles.
5. CROMARTIE/ CROMARTY, Joseph Charles. Born 6 March 1881 St. Andrews, Halcro Settlement, North West [SK]; baptized 27 March 1881 St. Andrew’s, Halcro Settlement [SK]; died 25 April 1900 Birch Hills; buried 27 April 1900 Birch Hills; father’s scrip claim 1900.
5. CROMARTIE/ CROMARTY, Alexander Jeremiah. Born 5 June 1883/ 1884 St. Andrews, Halcro Settlement, North West [SK]; baptized 7 June 1883 St. Andrew’s, Halcro Settlement [SK]; died 18 June 1883/ 1884, age 11 days; buried 20 June 1883/ 1884 St. Andrew’s, Halcro Settlement [SK]; father’s scrip claim 1900.
5. CROMARTIE/ CROMARTY, Andrew Peter Dominick. Born 2 Novmber 1884 Halcro Settlement [SK]; resided 1900 Birch Hills; scrip claim 1900.
4. HOURIE, Jane. Born c. 1847; with father and stepmother, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census.
+ BALLENDEN, James.
+ KNIGHT, Elisabeth/ Elizabeth. Born November 1829 St. John’s, Red River, to James KNIGHT and Sophia HALLET; with husband and step-daughter, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; widow, resided 1875 At. Andrews MB; scrip affidavit 1875.
3. HOURIE, James. Born c. 1828; baptized 20 May 1828 St. John’s, Red River; buried 23 August 1828 St. Andrew’s, Red River.
?3. HOURIE, Betsy. Born c. 1829.
3. HOURIE, Peter. Born 1825/ 1830 St. Andrew’s, Red River; baptized 30 November 1830 St. John’s, Red River; 1855 Fort Pelly/ Regina; scrip file (with declaration 1885).
+ WHITFORD, Sarah/ Sara. Born 1834/ 1837/ 1840 Red River, to Francois WHITFORD and Marie GLADU [see WHITFORD page]; baptized 2 June 1834 St. John’s, Red River?; scrip file (re children’s claims, includes affidavit 1885 that names mother as Margaret CREAMER, but perhaps confused with husband’s mother Margaret ‘Cree’); resided 1886–1901 Regina [SK]; died 29 January 1871 St. Clements MB?/ 1910.
4. HOURIE, [Children]. [See WHITFORD page.]
?3. HOURIE/ HOWRIE, Philip. Born 13 August 1833; baptized 30 September 1833 Red River; with spouse, listed 1870 High Bluff MB census.
+ COOK/ HALCRO, Euphemia/ Neptune.
2. BIRD, Charles. Born c. 1795 ‘Rupert’s Land’; HBC career; apprentice 1805–1808 Edmonton; along with Thomas FIDLER, listed as “Native of YF” (York Factory port of departure) among passengers who sailed 4 September 1808 aboard the King George for London, via Orkney and Yarmouth UK, arriving 24 November Ratcliffe docks [HBCA C.1/420; C.4/1]; sailed 1812 for Hudson Bay, probably aboard the King George, arriving 31 August at York; writer, 1812–1815 Edmonton; age 19, reported ill 1814–1815; clerk and writer 1815–1818 Paint River; died 23 July 1818, age 23; “in closing out his account after his death the following notation appears in the records: ‘Balance to his father James Bird’.”
?+ Elizabeth. Born c. 1798.
+ Oo-menahomisk/ Mary. ‘Swampy Indian’/ Cree; name perhaps suggests she was an avid boater?
2. BIRD, James John/ James Jacques/ James Joke/ Jimmy Jock/ Jemmy Jock/ James ‘Jr.’ Born 1792/ 1798 ‘probably at Carlton House’/ 1800 near Prince Albert [SK]; HBC career; apprentice clerk then trader 1809–1815 HBC Edmonton; clerk 1815–1816 Qu’Appelle; interpreter 1818–1821 Edmonton; married 1825 Belly River, North West; ‘had several wives and at least 11 children’; informally 2d? married Sturgeon River; clerk and interpreter 1833–1839 Saskatchewan; guide for brother-in-law James SINCLAIR’s colonizing party from Red River to Oregon in 1841; career as interpreter for U.S.; settled in Red River 1856, ‘twelve miles below Upper Fort Garry’; 2d? formally married 25 December 1857 St. Paul’s, Red River; resided 1856–1867 [MB]; resided from 1867 Qu’Appelle and Riding Mountain; with 2d? spouse listed and again listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; ‘blind by 1870s’; interpreter for Canadian treaties; resided from 1876 near Battle River; with spouse, listed 1881 Prince Albert [SK] North West census; resided 1883–1885 Gleichen, near Crowfoot Crossing; wrote will 26 July 1884 leaving three-quarters to son? Thomas and one quarter to son? Philip; scrip declaration 1885; died 11 December 1892 Two Medicine Creek, Blackfoot Reservation, MT; buried December 1892 Browning, MT. See also John C. Jackson, Jemmy Jock Bird: Marginal Man on the Blackfoot Frontier [Google Books preview].
+ Elizabeth. Born c. 1808 to unidentified Indigenous parents; ‘Indian’; died 1846, age 38; buried 21 April 1846 St. John’s, Red River.
3. BIRD, James. Born 1824; baptized 26 February 1834 Red River.
3. BIRD, John. Born c. 1825; died age 12; buried 2 October 1837 St. John’s, Red River.
3. BIRD, William. Born c. 1826.
3. BIRD, Elizabeth. baptized 10 May 1835.
3. BIRD, Edward. Born c. 1830; died before 1885.
3. BIRD, Mary. Born March 1832; died before 1885.
3. BIRD, Letitia ‘Letty’. Born July 1834; died before 1885.
3. BIRD, Maria. Born 1836; died before 1885.
3. BIRD, Charles. Born January 1837; died before 1885.
+ BUTTS, Sarah ‘Sally’. Born c. 1809 North West, to The Butts Heart/ Bull’s Heart/ Heart BUTTS; Piikuni/ ‘Piegan’, ‘Indian woman’; baptized 6 June 1858 St. Paul’s, Red River; married 25 December 1857 St. Paul’s, Red River; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; with spouse again listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; with spouse, listed 1881 Prince Albert [SK] North West census.
3. BIRD, Nancy. Born c. 1844; married c. 1859; separated; listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census.
+ KNIGHT, Peter. Born 1822/ 1823/ 1840 to James KNIGHT and Sophia HALLET; previously 1st married c. 1846 to Mary; subsequently 3d married 1867 to Caroline COTÉ.
4. KNIGHT, Charlotte. Born c. 1859; with mother, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census.
3. BIRD, Agnes. Born 1845/ 1850; resided 1870 St. Clements MB; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census; with spouse, resided 1870/ 1875 Touchwood Hills/ “Prince Albert Mission on the Saskatchewan River”; scrip affidavit 1875 (claim refused); died 1885.
+ HOURIE/ HOORY, Thomas. Born c. 1844 to Robert HOURIE and Angelique RACETTE; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census.
4. HOURIE/ HOORY, Sara/ Sarah. Born c. 1863 St. Andrew’s, Red River; with parents, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census; married 1883 South Branch; took treaty, John Smith Band, South Branch; withdrew from treaty 1887; widow, resided 1887 Pakan [SK]; scrip declaration 1887.
+ FLAMMOND, Moses.
5. FLAMMOND, William. Born c. 1886.
4. HOURIE/ HOORY, Elizabeth Jane ‘Elise’. Born c. 1865 High Bluff, Red River; with parents, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census; resided 1874–1886 Prince Albert [SK]; took treaty, John Smith Band, South Branch; married 1881 Prince Albert [SK]; withdrew from treaty 1886; scrip declaration 1886.
+ ANDERSON, Patrick. resided 1900 Sturgeon Lake, North West.
5. ANDERSON, William Charles. Born 23 October 1882 St. James, North West [SK]; died 7 January 1884 South Branch [SK]; father’s scrip claim 1900.
5. ANDERSON, Edward. died before 1886.
5. ANDERSON, Walter James. Born c. 1885.
4. HOURIE/ HOORY, Robert. Born c. 1869; with parents, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census.
4. HOURIE/ HOORY, John Peter. Born June 1872 Qu’Appelle; in treaty; withdrew from treaty c. 1893; died 26 April 1900; widow’s scrip claim 1900.
+ WHITFORD, Alice Margaret. Born 15 February 1878 South Branch [SK], to Jacob WHITFORD and Rachel KENNEDY (see WHITFORD page); baptized 3 March 1878 South Branch Mission; widowed; resided 1900 Prince Albert [SK]; scrip index.
5. HOURIE, Aveline Myrtle. Born 1899; died 29 May 1900.
4. HOURIE, Charles. Born August 1877 Prince Albert [SK]; in treaty, John Smith Band; withdrew from treaty; resided 1900 Birch Hills [SK]; scrip claim 1900.
3. BIRD, Joseph ‘John’. Born c. 1845; married 5 December 1867/ 18 October 1868 St. Andrew’s, Red River; died 1869/ 10 April 1871 St. Andrew’s, Red River; farmer, [formerly] resided St. Andrews MB; buried 1869/ 1871 St. Andrews MB; widow’s scrip affidavit 1878; scrip index.
+ LOUIS, J. Sarah. Born 2 October 1848 St. Andrew’s, Red River, to James LOUIS and Isabella SPENCE; widowed, with parents, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; resided 1875 St. Andrews MB; scrip affidavit 1875; father’s scrip affidavit 1875 (names Sarah as a widow); 2d married Simon WESTWAY; resided 1878 St. Andrews South MB.
4. BIRD dite WESTWAY, Barbara. Born 17 January 1866/ 1868; baptized 31 January 1868 Park’s Creek, Red River; with mother, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; mother’s scrip affidavit 1875; scrip index.
4. BIRD, Leah. Born 3 November/ March 1869 Park’s Creek/ St. Andrew’s, Red River; baptized 7 March 1869[?]; died 18 December 1871 St. Andrews MB; mother’s scrip affidavit 1878; scrip index.
3. BIRD, Thomas. Born c. 1847.
3. BIRD, Philip. Born 1848/ 1850/ 1852 U.S.; employed 1868/ 1869 HBC freighter; at Winnipeg, Red River, 1869/ 1870; resided Park’s Creek 1870; married summer/ 8 September 1870 St. Andrews MB; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; with parents, again listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; returned to Saskatchewan as labourer and freighter; with parents, listed 1881 Prince Albert [SK] North West census; 2d married c. 1883 Duck Lake; interpreter, 1884/ 1885 Blackfoot Crossing Church of England; resided 1885 Calgary [AB]; scrip declaration 1885; resided 1900 Carlton [SK].
+ KIPLING/ KIPPLING, Mary. Born c. 1848 to Peter KIPLING and an unidentified woman; cousin to Baptiste ARCAND; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; with spouse, again listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; with spouse, listed 1881 Prince Albert [SK] North West census; died c. November 1882 Prince Albert [SK].
4. BIRD, Henry. Born c. 1871 [MB]; died 1873/ 1878 [MB].
4. BIRD, Anne ‘Nancy’. Born 10 October 1874 Blackfoot Crossing; “was at school at [Carly le Penn?] for about two years, she then took sick and came to Fort McLeod & lived there for about a year with … [her paternal uncle] and having got better my brother took her to St. Peters [Mission School]”; died of consumption [TB] 7 July c. 1893 at home, having been removed that day by her father from St. Peter’s Mission School MT U.S.; buried St. Peter’s Mission MT U.S.; father’s scrip claim 1900; scrip index.
4. BIRD, Alice Mary. Born fall 1877 Bow River, Porcupine Hills [Fort McLeod]; died fall c. 1880 home of Thomas HOURIE, South Branch, Halcro Settlement; buried Prince Albert [SK]; father’s scrip claim 1900; scrip index.
4. BIRD, Sarah Jane. Born c. 1878 Buffalo Lake, southeast of Edmonton; died spring c. 1880 Westbourne; buried 8 June 1880, age 2 (not 5); father’s scrip claim 1900; scrip index.
4. BIRD, Thomas James. Born 1877/ 1879; with parents, listed 1881 Prince Albert [SK] North West census.
4. BIRD, Joseph. Born March 1879 Forks of the Red Deer River, north of Medicine Hat [AB]; died March 1879; father’s scrip claim 1900; scrip index.
4. BIRD, Mary Ann. Born 14 November 1881 Red Deer River, north of Swift Current; baptized 29 January 1882 Prince Albert [SK]; died December 1882 at home of William CROMARTIE “who took care of the child after her mother died about a month before”, Halcro Settlement, South Branch; buried 14 December 1882 Prince Albert [SK]; father’s scrip claim 1900; scrip index.
4. BIRD, [2 other children]. Born no later than c. 1883; died before 1885.
+ LUSSIER/ LUCIER, Louise. previously 1st married Mederick DeGUIRE; widowed; with 2d husband, resided 1900 Carlton [SK]; scrip claim 1900 on behalf of daughter (DeGUIRE; scrip index ; see also scrip file; and file).
4. BIRD, Sarah Ann. Born 8 February 1885 Blackfoot Reserve [AB]; baptized spring 1885 CMS Blackfoot Reserve [AB]; resided 1900 Carlton [SK]; scrip claim 1900; scrip index.
3. BIRD, Catherine. died before 1885.
3. BIRD, Alfred. Born c. 1850.
+ Elizabeth.
2. BIRD, George. Born 1792/ 1793/ 1794/ 1796/ 1798 South Branch House, Saskatchewan River; HBC career; married 23 August 1825 St. John’s, Red River;
• age 31, listed 1827 Red River census, with spouse, 1 son (under age 16), 1 daughter (under age 15), and 1 house, 2 cows, 1 cultivated acre;
• age 34, listed 1828 Red River census, with spouse, 1 son (under age 16), 1 daughter (under age 15), and 1 cow, 2 calves, 3 swine, 1 cultivated acre;
• age 35, listed 1829 Red River census, with spouse, 1 son (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 3 cows, 1 calf, 13 swine, 2 cultivated acres;
• age 36, listed 1830 Red River census, with spouse, 1 son (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 3 cows, 1 oxen, 2 calves, 4 pigs, 1 canoe, 2 cultivated acres, with note “lives with Joseph Bird”;
• age 37, listed 1831 Red River census, with spouse, 2 sons (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 2 oxen, 6 cows, 3 calves, 5 pigs, 1 canoe, 3 cultivated acres;
• age 38, listed 1832 Red River census, with spouse, 2 sons (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 2 oxen, 3 cows, 1 calf, 10 pigs, 1 canoe, 5 cultivated acres;
• age 39, listed 1832 Red River census, with spouse, 3 sons (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 2 oxen, 3 cows, 8 pigs, 1 plough, 1 canoe, 6 cultivated acres;
• listed 1835 Red River census, with spouse, 3 sons (under age 16), 1 daughter (over age 15), 1 daughter (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 1 mare, 2 oxen, 5 cows, 2 calves, 8 pigs, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 1 cart, 1 canoe, 3 cultivated acres;
• age 46, listed 1838 Red River census, 4 sons (under age 16), 1 daughter (over age 15), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 1 horse, 2 mares, 2 oxen, 1 bull, 4 cows, 6 calves, 5 pigs, 3 sheep, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 2 carts, 1 canoe, 10 cultivated acres, 1 ice house;
• age 48, listed 1840 Red River census, with spouse, 3 sons (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 1 horse, 1 mare, 2 oxen, 1 bull, 1 cow, 1 calf, 3 sheep, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 4 carts, 1 canoe, 12 cultivated acres;
• age 51, listed 1843 Red River census, with spouse, 1 son (over age 16), 4 sons (under age 16), 1 daughter (over age 15), 1 daughter (under age 15), and 1 house, 2 stables, 1 barn, 2 horses, 2 mares, 3 oxen, 2 cows, 1 pig, 1 sheep, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 3 carts, 1 canoe, 10 cultivated acres;
• age 54, listed 1849 Red River census, with spouse, 2 sons (over age 16), 2 sons (under age 16), 1 daughter (over age 15), 3 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 2 mares, 2 cows, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 2 carts, 1 canoe, 10 cultivated acres;
died 28 February 1855 Red River? or farmer 1862?
+ THOMAS, Ann/ Anne/ Amore ‘Nancy’. Born c. 1800 Red River to Thomas THOMAS of the HBC and Sarah, a Cree woman? or John THOMAS and Margaret? [see THOMAS page].
3. BIRD, Amelia ‘Melien’. Born 4 January 1821; baptized 1 August 1824 Carlton [SK]; married 20 December 1838, by banns, Middlechurch, Red River; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Paul MB census; died 9 April 1893 Middlechurch, Manitoba.
+ FIDLER, Peter. Born c. 1820 to Peter FIDLER and Mary a ‘Mackagonne’/ ‘Maskagon’/ ‘Muskegon’/ ‘Swamy Cree’ woman; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Paul MB census.
4. FIDLER, Sarah. Born c. 1850; with parents, listed 1870 St. Paul MB census.
4. FIDLER, Thomas. Born 20 August 1853, St. Paul’s, Red River; with parents, listed 1870 St. Paul MB census; labourer, resided 1876 St. Paul MB; scrip affidavit 1876.
4. FIDLER, Mary. Born c. 1857; with parents, listed 1870 St. Paul MB census.
4. FIDLER, William. Born c. 1859; with parents, listed 1870 St. Paul MB census.
4. FIDLER, Peter. Born c. 1866; with parents, listed 1870 St. Paul MB census.
3. BIRD, Frederick Adolphus. Born 18 March 1823, Red River; baptized 1 August 1824; married 21 December 1843, by banns, Middlechurch, Red River;
?• age 24, listed 1846 Red River census, with spouse [and, given his age and subsequent listing in the 1849 census, an improbable number of children and other assets — unless minding someone else’s farm?], 2 sons (under age 16), 5 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house 1 stable, 1 barn, 2 mares, 9 oxen, 12 cows, 5 calves, 8 pigs, 16 sheep, 1 plough, 2 harrows, 3 carts, 1 boat, 18 cultivated acres;
• age 26, listed 1849 Red River census, with spouse, 1 son (under age 16), and 1 house, 1 mare, 1 bull, 1 cow, 1 calf, 4 cultivated acres;
with spouse, listed 1870 Portage la Prairie MB census; farmer, resided 1875 Portage la Prairie MB; scrip affidavit 1875; scrip affidavit 1875 on behalf of children; with spouse, listed 1881 Portage la Prairie MB census; farmer, died 30 November 1884 Carleton [SK]; buried December 1884 Portage La Prairie MB; scrip index.
+ GARRIOCH/ ‘GARRICK’, Anne/ Ann/ Anna. Born 6 April 1824/ 1826 to William GARRIOCH and Nancy COOK; baptized 16 April 1826 Red River; with spouse, listed 1870 Portage la Prairie MB census; 8 children; with spouse, listed 1881 Portage la Prairie MB census; died 6 May 1919 of ‘bronchitis’ Portage La Prairie MB; buried 8 May 1919 St. Mary’s cemetery, Portage La Prairie MB.
4. BIRD, Edward. Born c. 1840; resided St. Paul’s, Red River?; married 5 January 1860 Middlechurch/ St. Paul’s, Red River?; died c. 1864.
+ SINCLAIR, Isabella. resided St. Paul’s, Red River; widowed; 2d married Michel DESMARAIS.
5. BIRD, Alfred. Born c. 1861; with mother and step-father, listed 1870 High Bluff MB census in the home of Isabella SINCLAIR.
5. BIRD, Henry James. Born c. 1863; with mother and step-father, listed 1870 High Bluff MB census.
4. BIRD, William Gilbert. Born 1847/ 25 July 1848/ 1849 St. Paul’s, Red River; married 15 September 1870 St. Pauls MB; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Paul MB census; trader resided 1875 ‘St. Paul'[?]; scrip affidavit 1875; with spouse, listed 1881 Portage la Prairie MB census; with spouse, listed 1881 Prince Albert [SK] North West census?; with spouse, listed 1891 Westbourne MB census; resided Carrot River [Star City SK]; died 4 August 1942 Star City SK; scrip index.
+ CUMMING/ CUMMINGS, Harriet. Born 25 August 1855 St. Paul’s, Red River, to Robert CUMMING/ CUMMINGS and Jane MONKMAN [see MONKMAN page]; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Paul MB census; 11 children; resided 1875 ‘St. Paul’ MB; scrip affidavit 1875; with spouse, listed 1881 Portage la Prairie MB census; with spouse, listed 1881 Prince Albert [SK] North West census?; with spouse, listed 1891 Westbourne MB census; died 24 September 1927 Star City SK; scrip index.
5. BIRD, Isabelle Jane ‘Isabella’. Born 1872/ 4 June 1873; with parents, listed 1881 Portage la Prairie MB census; with parents, listed 1881 Prince Albert [SK] North West census?; with parents, listed 1891 Westbourne MB census; died 1956.
+ COLBOURNE, Jack.
5. BIRD, Clara Ann. Born 1874/ 1875/ 1876; with parents, listed 1881 Portage la Prairie MB census; with parents, listed 1881 Prince Albert [SK] North West census?; with parents, listed 1891 Westbourne MB census; married 1904/ 1905; died 1951.
+ MABB, Henry Liddell. Born 1872 Hull, Yorkshire, England, to Henry Liddell MABB ‘Sr.’ and Ellen HOLDER; previously married to Bertha May MULLETT; died 1960/ 1961.
5. BIRD, Emma Margaret. Born 1876 Portage la Prairie MB; died 16 August 1880 Westbourne MB.
5. BIRD, Jemima Adelaide. Born 1878; died 23 August 1880 Westbourne MB.
5. BIRD, Mable Mary. Born 16 august 1880; died 11 January 1881.
5. BIRD, Frederick Robert Edward Donald ‘Fred’. Born 4 August 1883 Prince Albert [SK]; baptized 4 August 1883 St. Catherine’s; with parents, listed 1891 Westbourne MB census; resided Westbourne; resided 1901 Willow Creek; scrip claim 1901; died 15 January 1949 Prince Albert [SK]; scrip index.
5. BIRD, William Francis ‘Frank’. Born 28 May 1886; with parents, listed 1891 Westbourne MB census; .
5. BIRD, Ina Maria. Born 20 February 1889; with parents, listed 1891 Westbourne MB census; died 1961.
5. BIRD, Pauline Constance Ivy. Born 13 May 1899.
5. BIRD, Uma Serita Frederick. Born 13 May 1899.
4. BIRD, Emma Margaret. Born 17 May 1850, Portage La Prairie; with parents, listed 1870 Portage la Prairie MB census; died 1879 Portage la Prairie MB.
+ OTTON, Frank Woolnoth. Died 1907 Battleford SK.
5. OTTON, [son].
5. OTTON, [son].
4. BIRD, Harriet Anne. Born 20 May 1854, Portage La Prairie; baptized 20 May, Portage La Prairie.
4. BIRD, Clara. Born 9 April 1856 Portage la Prairie; with parents, listed 1870 Portage la Prairie MB census; married 17 February 1873; resided 1875 Portage la Prairie MB; scrip affidavit 1875.
+ BATES, John George. Born c. 1852, Ireland; died 1899.
5. BATES, [3 children].
4. BIRD, Catherine. Born 13 March 1860 Portage la Prairie [MB]; baptized 22 April 1860 St. Mary’s la Prairie; with parents, listed 1870 Portage la Prairie MB census; scrip index.
+ GARDEN, George F.S.
5. GARDEN, [daughter]. Born Portage la Prairie.
4. BIRD, Maria M. Born 29 April 1862 Portage La Prairie [MB]; baptized 26 June 1862 St. Mary’s la Prairie; with parents, listed 1870 Portage la Prairie MB census; with parents, listed 1881 Portage la Prairie MB census; died 30 June 1926 Portage La Prairie MB; buried 2 July 1926 St. Mary’s cemetery, Portage [MB]; scrip index.
4. BIRD, Adelaide Harriet. Born 15 November 1864 Portage La Prairie; baptized 18 December 1864; buried 27 October 1865 St. Mary’s la Prairie, Portage.
4. BIRD, Frederick Charles ‘Fred’. Born 18 August 1866 Portage La Prairie; baptized 18 September 1866 St. Mary’s la Prairie; with parents, listed 1870 Portage la Prairie MB census; with parents, listed 1881 Portage la Prairie MB census; resided Star City SK; died 5 April 1914 Portage [MB]; scrip index.
+ IRELAND, Alice.
5. BIRD, [daughter]. Born Portage la Prairie MB
4. BIRD, Henry George ‘Harry’. Born 12 December 1868 Portage La Prairie; baptized 23 December 1868; with parents, listed 1870 Portage la Prairie MB census; with parents, listed 1881 Portage la Prairie MB census; died 10 December 1940 Star City [SK]; scrip index.
?+ LOGAN, Ann Harriet.
5. BIRD, [3 children].
3. BIRD, Catherine. Born 17 August 1829, St. Paul’s Red River; with spouse, listed St. Johns MB census; resided 1875 St. Johns MB; scrip affidavit 1875; died after 1901.
+ SPENCE, Thomas. Born 1812/ 1816 to James SPENCE and an unidentified woman; with spouse, listed St. Johns MB census.
3. BIRD, George. Born c. 1830; baptized 3 April 1831, St. John’s Red River; unmarried, listed 1870 St. Paul MB census; died 11 September 1881 St. Paul’s MB.
3. BIRD, Thomas. Born 1831/ 1832, St. Paul’s, Red River; baptized 3 March 1833 Red River; married 24 July 1862 St. Andrew’s, Red River; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Paul MB census; resided 1876 St. Paul MB; scrip affidavit 1876; with spouse, listed 1881 St. Paul MB census.
+ FOX, Ann ‘Nancy’. Born c. 1842 to carpenter Charles FOX and an unidentified woman; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Paul MB census; with spouse, listed 1881 St. Paul MB census.
4. BIRD, Ann Elizabeth. Born c. 1862; with parents, listed 1870 St. Paul MB census; with parents, again listed 1870 St. Paul MB census; with parents, listed 1881 St. Paul MB census.
4. BIRD, Charles James. Born 1866; with parents, listed 1870 St. Paul MB census; with parents, again listed 1870 St. Paul MB census; with parents, listed 1881 St. Paul MB census.
4. BIRD, Thomas. Born c. 1870; with parents, listed 1870 St. Paul MB census; with parents, again listed 1870 St. Paul MB census; with parents, listed 1881 St. Paul MB census.
4. BIRD, Therza/ Thersa M. M. Born c. 1875; with parents, listed 1881 St. Paul MB census.
4. BIRD, Alfred Edgar. Born c. 1878; with parents, listed 1881 St. Paul MB census.
4. BIRD, Francis Albert. Born c. 1880; with parents, listed 1881 St. Paul MB census.
3. BIRD, Charles James. Born c. 1835; baptized 13 September 1835 Red River.
3. BIRD, Sarah. Born c. 1838; baptized 8 July 1838 Red River.
+ TARN, John.
3. BIRD, William George Thomas. Born 1 April 1840 Red River; baptized 6 December 1840 Red River; ‘8th child’; married half-cousin; with spouse, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; with spouse, listed 1881 High Bluff, Poplar Point MB census; died 1912.
+ SUTHERLAND, Mary Jane ‘Harriet’. Born 1846/ 1848 to James SUTHERLAND ‘Jr.’ and Maria BIRD (daughter of Joseph BIRD and Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ THOMAS; see below); with spouse, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; with spouse, listed 1881 High Bluff, Poplar Point MB census.
4. BIRD, William. Born c. 1868; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; with parents, listed 1881 High Bluff, Poplar Point MB census.
4. BIRD, Sarah Ann ‘Annie’. Born 1871/ 1872; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; with parents, listed 1881 High Bluff, Poplar Point MB census; 13 children; died 1963.
+ CROMARTIE, William George. Born 1867 to William Edward CROMARTIE and Mary Ann HOURIE; 3d child of 17; died 1942.
4. BIRD, Marie Adelaide Bedson. Born 7 June 1884 South Branch; resided 1900 Birch Hills [SK]; scrip claim 1900.
3. BIRD, Ann Elizabeth. Born 9 June 1844 ‘St. Paul’, Red River; baptized 9 June 1844 Red River; with spouse, listed 1870 High Bluff MB census; died 6 February 1871, High Bluff MB; husband’s scrip affidavit 1875.
+ ADAMS, Joseph. Born 1842 to George ADAMS and an unidentified woman; with spouse, listed 1870 High Bluff MB census; farmer, resided 1875 High Bluff MB.
4. ADAMS, Thomas. Born c. 1865; with parents, listed 1870 High Bluff MB census.
4. ADAMS, Joseph Charles. Born c. 1868; with parents, listed 1870 High Bluff MB census.
3. BIRD, Harriet ‘Sophia’. Born 9 December 1846 Red River; baptized 9 December 1846 Red River; died 7 February 1855.
2. BIRD, Joseph. Born 1 January 1799/ 1800 Edmonton House [AB]/ 1801 North West; married 13 March 1821 St. John’s, Fort Douglas, Red River;
• age 28, listed 1827 Red River census, with spouse, 1 son (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 horse, 1 mare, 4 cows, 1 oxen 2 calves, 1 swine, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 1 boat, 1 canoe, 2 cultivated acres;
• age 29, listed 1828 Red River census, with spouse, 2 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 barn, 1 stable, 1 mare, 3 cows, 3 oxen, 3 calves, 1 swine, 1 cart, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 2 boats, 1 canoe, 7 cultivated acres;
• age 30, listed 1829 Red River census, with 1 son (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 mare, 4 oxen, 3 cows, 5 calves, 7 swine, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 1 boat, 8 cultivated acres;
• age 30, listed 1830 Red River census, with spouse, 1 son (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 1 mare, 3 cows, 5 oxen, 2 calves, 44 pigs, 1 cart, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 2 boats, [6?] cultivated acres;
• age 30, listed 1831 Red River census, with spouse, 1 son (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 1 horse, 5 oxen, 1 bull, 4 cows, 1 calf, 11 pigs, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 1 cart, 4 oats, 1 canoe, 6 cultivated acres;
• age 31, listed 1832 Red River census, with spouse, 1 son (under age 16), 3 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 1 horse, 5 oxen, 2 cows, 1 calf, 14 pigs, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 1 cart, 3 boats, 1 canoe, 6½ cultivated acres;
• age 32, listed 1833 Red River census, with spouse, a married man, a married woman, 2 sons (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 1 horse, 4 oxen, 1 bull, 4 cows, 1 calf, 6 pigs, 1 plough, 1 boat, 1 harrow, 1 canoe, 7 cultivated acres;
• age 36, listed 1835 Red River census, with spouse, 2 sons (under age 16), 3 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 1 horse, 2 mares, 4 oxen, 1 bull, 6 cows, 4 pigs, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 1 cart, 1 canoe, 10 cultivated acres;
• age 39, listed 1838 Red River census, with spouse, 3 sons (under age 16), 1 daughter (over age 15), 3 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 1 horse, 3 mares, 3 oxen, 1 bull, 3 cows, 2 calves, 1 pig, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 2 carts, 3 boats, 14 cultivated acres, 1 ice house;
• age 41, listed 1840 Red River census, with spouse, 3 sons (under age 16), 1 daughter (over age 15), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 3 mares, 2 oxen, 1 bull, 3 cows, 4 calves, 8 pigs, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 1 cart, 2 boats, 1 canoe, 19 cultivated acres;
• age 44, listed 1843 Red River census, with spouse, 3 sons (under age 16), 2 daughters (over age 15), 3 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 2 stables, 1 barn, 3 horses, 3 mares, 5 oxen, 1 bull, 5 cows, 2 calves, 7 pigs, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 3 carts, 2 boats, 1 canoe, 13 cultivated acres;
widowed 1846;
• age 50, listed 1849 Red River census, with 1 son (over age 16), 2 sons (under age 16), 2 daughters (over age 15), 1 (daughter under age 15), and 1 house, 2 stables, 1 barn, 1 horse, 2 mares, 3 oxen, 2 cows, 1 pig, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 3 carts, 1 boat, 18 cultivated acres;
named in father’s will of 21 March 1855; farmer, resided 1875 Poplar Point MB; scrip affidavit 1875; died 9 September 1878/ 1879 Poplar Point MB; scrip index.
+ THOMAS, Elisabeth ‘Betsy’. Born 27 January 1805 Swan River (not to Thomas THOMAS ‘Sr’ of the HBC and Sarah ‘Cree’? see THOMAS page); died 1846.
3. BIRD, Marie/ Maria. Born c. 1822 St. Paul’s, Red River; baptized 24 March 1822 Red River; married 1 November 1838, by banns, Middlechurch, Red River; with spouse, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; died 22 November 1891, South Branch [SK].
+ SUTHERLAND, James ‘Jr.’ Born c. 1816 to James SUTHERLAND and an unidentified woman; with spouse, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census.
4. SUTHERLAND, Elizabeth. Born c. 1840 St. John’s, Red River; married 9 December 1858 St. Paul’s, Red River.
+ BROWN, James. Born 1837 Red River, to Henry BROWN and Isabella SLATER (see SLATER/ SCLATER page); farmer, resided 1875 Poplar Point MB; scrip affidavit on behalf of children 1875; died 1900.
5. BROWN, [Children]. [See SLATER/ SCLATER page.]
4. SUTHERLAND, Mary Jane ‘Harriet’. Born 1846/ 1848; married half-cousin; with spouse, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; died before 1901.
+ BIRD, William George Thomas. Born 1 April 1840 Red River to George BIRD and Ann ‘Nancy’ THOMAS (see above); 8th child; with spouse, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; died 1912.
5. BIRD, William. Born c. 1868; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census.
5. BIRD, Sarah Ann ‘Annie’. Born 1871; 13 children; died 1963.
+ CROMARTIE, William George. Born 1867 to William Edward CROMARTIE and Mary Ann HOURIE; 3d child of 17; died 1942.
5. BIRD, Marie Adelaide Bedson. Born 7 June 1884 South Branch; resided 1900 Birch Hills [SK]; scrip claim 1900.
4. SUTHERLAND, Thomas. Born c. 1848; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census.
4. SUTHERLAND, Jessie Ann. Born 23 February 1851 St. Paul’s, Red River; resided 1877 Poplar Point MB; scrip affidavit 1877; died 1933 Halcro, near Prince Albert SK.
?+ McLEOD, Malcolm. Born 15 April 1844/ 1865[?] ‘Grand Rapids’, to John McLEOD and Elizabeth SWAIN [see SWAIN page]; baptized 4/ 26 July 1844 St. John’s, Red River; ‘Scotch’; married 1870 St. Joachim Mission, Fort Edmonton [AB]; resided 1900, 1901 Willoughby, near MacDowall [SK]; died 6 April 1906 suddenly, at sea aboard ship, returning from holiday in Scotland; buried at sea.
5. McLEOD, [Children]. [See SWAIN page.]
4. SUTHERLAND, Edwin. Born 31 May 1853 [Baie?] ‘St. Paul’, Red River; ; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; labourer, resided 1875 Poplar Point MB; scrip affidavit 1875.
4. SUTHERLAND, Catherine Maria. Born c. 1855; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census.
4. SUTHERLAND, Sarah. Born c. 1861 with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census.
4. SUTHERLAND, Charles John. Born c. 1865; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census.
3. BIRD, Elizabeth. Born 1824 St. Paul’s, Red River; baptized 18 October 1824 Red River; resided Red River; married 18 January 1844, by banns, Middlechurch, Red River; with spouse, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; died 22 October 1887 Prince Albert [SK].
+ BRUCE, James. Born 1815 1809/ 1815 Green Lake/ 1817 to William BRUCE and Frances ALLARY [see BRUCE and ALLARY/ HENRY pages]; baptized 6 August 1822 St. John’s, Red River; resided Red River; with spouse, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; died 23 December 1873 Poplar Point MB; widow’s scrip affidavit 1875.
4. BRUCE, [Children]. [See BRUCE page.]
3. BIRD, William. Born 1826; baptized 26 December 1826 St. John’s, Red River; died December 1827, age 13 mos.; buried 11 December 1827 St. John’s.
3. BIRD, Joseph. Born c. 1829; baptized 27 January 1829; died 8 June [year?] Red River.
3. BIRD, Emma. Born c. 1831; baptized 25 August 1831; buried 1 August 1833 Red River, age 2.
3. BIRD, Jane. Born 14 August 1835 St. Paul’s, Red River; baptized 14 August 1833; resided 1875 Poplar Point MB; near widowed father and next to brother Charles and sister Letitia, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; scrip affidavit [1875].
+ TAYLOR, David. Born 1837 to William TAYLOR and Sarah SABISTON; unmarried, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census [see TAYLOR page]; then married Nancy BIRD (born 1835)? [or born 1845, to James TAYLOR and an unidentified woman?]
4. BIRD, Charles G. Born 28 November 1861 St. Paul’s, Red River; ‘illegitimate’; with mother, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; mother’s scrip affidavit 1875; scrip index.
+ MARTEN/ MARTIN, John. resided 1875 Poplar Point MB.
3. BIRD, Letitia. Born c. 1836; baptized 28 February 1836 Red River; photographed 1858 with buffalo robe and beaded saddle [Humphrey Lloyd Hime, image printed in Henry Youle Hind’s folio, Photographs taken at Lord Selkirk’s Settlement of the Red River of the North, to illustrate a narrative of the Canadian Exploring Expeditions in Rupert’s Land (London: J. Hogarth, 1860), image no. 25, described as “a Cree Half-breed” — see Slideshow: Woman of Red River]; near widowed father and next to brother Charles and sister Jane, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census (with son Charles G. BIRD, born c. 1859).
3. BIRD, Thomas James. Born 1838; baptized 18 March 1838 Red River.
3. BIRD, Charles George. Born 14 February 1840/ 3 February 1846 St. Paul’s, Red River; baptized 12 March 1840 St. John’s, Red River; 1st married 30 June 1863 St. Mary’s la Prairie, Portage [MB]; widower of St. Ann’s/ Poplar Point; 2d married 13 February 1868; with/ next to widowed father, and with 2d spouse, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; farmer, resided 1875 Poplar Point MB; scrip affidavit 1875; with spouse, listed 1881 Prince Albert, North West census; died 31 December 1919 Waitville/ Birch Hills SK; scrip index.
+ HALLETT, Ann. Born 1846 St. John’s, Red River to Henry HALLETT Jr. and Catherine PARENTEAU; baptized 7 June 1846 St. John’s, Red River; died c. 1868 St. Andrew’s, Red River.
+ HALCRO/ HALCROW, Ann ‘Nancy’/ ‘Annie’. Born 1840/ 1843/ 1844 St. Andrew’s, Red River, to Joseph HALCRO/ HALCROW and Sophia/ Sophie COOK; with spouse, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; resided 1875 Poplar Point MB; scrip affidavit 1875; with spouse, listed 1881 Prince Albert, North West census; resided 1900 Birch Hills; scrip index.
4. BIRD, Charles Thomas. Born 1868/ 1869; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; with parents, listed 1881 Prince Albert, North West census.
4. BIRD, Joseph. Born c. 1871; with parents, listed 1881 Prince Albert, North West census.
4. BIRD, Alfred William. Born 22 May 1878 Halcro [SK]; with parents, listed 1881 Prince Albert, North West census; resided 1900 Birch Hills; scrip claim 1900; scrip index.
+ TAYLOR, Ellen. Born 1879 South Branch Saskatchewan to Edward TAYLOR and Sarah STEVENS; died 19 January 1899 Birch Hills, age 20; husband’s scrip claim 1900; scrip index.
5. BIRD, Sydney Harold. Born c. 1899; after death of mother, placed in the care of grandmother Ann BIRD of Birch Hills.
4. BIRD, Victoria Alice. Born 8 March 1883 Halcro [SK]; resided 1900 Birch Hills; scrip claim 1900; scrip index.
4. BIRD, Florence. Born 19 August 1885 Halcro/ St. Andrew’s [SK]; died of consumption [TB] 5 May 1900, age 15; mother’s scrip claim 1900; scrip index.
3. BIRD, Ann Harriet. Born c. 1842; baptized 20 March 1842 Red River; died 1845, age 3?; buried 12 September 1845 St. John’s?
3. BIRD, John. baptized 12 February 1844.
3. BIRD, Sarah. baptized 20 December 1845; died 1846, age 3 mos.?; buried 1 March 1846 St. John’s, Red River?
2. BIRD, Henry. Born 1802/ 12 December 1804 Edmonton House/ 1805 North West; married 28 October 1824, by banns, St. John’s, Red River;
• age 23, listed 1828 Red River census, with spouse, 1 daughter (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 cow, 1 calf, 7 swine, with note “stops with his father”;
• listed 1830 Red River census, with spouse, 2 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 2 cows, 2 calves, 5 pigs, 1 plough, 2 cultivated acres;
• age 26, listed 1831 Red River census, with spouse, 3 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 5 cows, 1 calf, 10 pigs,1 plough, 1 harrow, 1 canoe, 4 cultivated acres;
• age 27, listed 1832 Red River census, with spouse, 3 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 6 cows, 1 calf, 15 pigs, 1 plough, 2 harrows, 1 canoe, 4½ cultivated acres;
• age 28, listed 1833 Red River census, with spouse, 1 unmarried man, 1 son (under age 16), 4 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 2 oxen, 5 cows, 2 calves, 3 pigs, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 1 canoe, 4½ cultivated acres;
• age 30, listed 1835 Red River census, with spouse, 5 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 1 horse, 2 oxen, 3 cows, 4 calves, 4 pigs, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 1 cart, 1 canoe, 3 cultivated acres;
• age 33, listed 1838 Red River census, with spouse, 1 daughter (over age 15), 4 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 2 horses, 2 oxen, 1 cow, 2 calves, 2 pigs, 1 Plough, 1 harrow, 2 carts, 1½ cultivated acres;
• age 35, listed 1840 Red River census, with spouse, 5 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 2 stables, 1 horse, 2 oxen, 1 bull, 3 cows, 2 calves, 2 pigs, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 3 carts, 1 canoe, 3 cultivated acres;
• age 39, listed 1843 Red River census, with spouse, 5 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 horse, 3 oxen, 2 cows, 4 calves, 4 pigs, 8 sheep, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 1 cart, 5 cultivated acres;
• age 44, listed 1849 Red River census, with spouse, 2 sons (under age 16), 3 daughters (over age 15), 3 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 ox, 1 bull, 1 cow, 1 pig, 2 sheep, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 1 cart, 2 canoes, 3 cultivated acres;
named in father’s will of 21 March 1855; with spouse, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; resided 1875 Poplar Point MB; scrip affidavit 1875; with spouse, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census; widower, listed 1891 St. Andrews MB census; died 9 December 1893 St. Andrew’s MB; scrip index.
+ CALDER, Harriet/ ‘Harriot’. Born 28 October 1809 York Factory/ 1815 North West, to John CALDER and Sarah HUMPHRIES/ HUMPHREY/ HUMPHREYVILLE/ UMFREVILLE; baptized 1 May 1825 St. John’s, Red River; with spouse, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; resided 1875 Poplar Point MB; scrip affidavit 1875; with spouse, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census; died 14 October 1889 St. Andrew’s MB; scrip index.
3. BIRD, Amelia. Born c. 1826 St. Paul’s, Red River; baptized 21 January 1827 St. John’s, Red River; married 30 December 1847, by special license, Upper Church/ St. John’s, Red River; with spouse, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; resided 1875 Poplar Point MB; scrip affidavit 1875; died 13 May 1898 Portage la Prairie MB.
+ TAYLOR, James. Born 10 July 1825 St. Paul’s, Red River, to William TAYLOR and Sarah SABISTON [see TAYLOR page]; with spouse, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; resided 1875 Poplar Point MB; scrip affidavit 1875 on behalf of children.
4. TAYLOR, William. Born c. 1848; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; married 23 March 1870 St. Andrews, Red River.
+ LAMBERT, Margaret. Born 18 August 1855 St. Andrews, Red River, to John LAMBERT and Anne PRINCE.
4. TAYLOR, James. Born c. 1850; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census.
4. TAYLOR, Henry. Born c. 1851; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census.
4. TAYLOR, Charlotte. Born c. 1853; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census.
4. TAYLOR, Alexander. Born c. 1855; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census.
4. TAYLOR, John. Born 17 April 1858 St. Paul’s, Red River; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census.
4. TAYLOR, Elizabeth. Born 24 May 1860 St. Paul’s, Red River; baptized 1 July 1860 St. Ann’s, Poplar Point, Red River; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census.
4. TAYLOR, Alfred. Born 7 April 1862 St. Paul’s, Red River; baptized 1 June 1862 St. Ann’s, Poplar Point, Red River; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census.
4. TAYLOR, Benjamin. Born 9 June 1864 St. Paul’s, Red River; baptized 12 June 1864 St. Ann’s, Poplar Point, Red River; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census.
4. TAYLOR, David Edwin. Born 29 June 1865 St. Paul’s, Red River; baptized 18 July 1866 St. Ann’s, Poplar Point, Red River; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; died 3 November 1871; buried 5 November 1871 St. Ann’s, Poplar Point MB.
4. TAYLOR, Albert. Born 5 June 1867 St. Paul’s, Red River; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census.
3. BIRD, Elizabeth ‘Eliza’. baptized 3 June 1828 St. John’s, Red River; died 1835, age 7?; buried 22 July 1835?
3. BIRD, Chloe. Born 1832; baptized 3 February 1832 St. John’s, Red River.
3. BIRD, Jemima. baptized 28 June 1835 St. John’s, Red River; died 1838 age 3?; buried 17 November 1838?
3. BIRD, Harriet/ ‘Harriot’. Born 1838; baptized 12 October 1838 St. John’s, Red River.
3. BIRD, Ann ‘Nancy’/ ‘Annie’. Born July 1840/ 1844 St. Andrew’s, Red River; baptized 8 June 1841 St. John’s, Red River; with spouse, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; died 6 January 1874 St. Ann’s/ Poplar Point MB; buried 6 January 1874 St. Ann’s, Poplar Point MB; husband’s scrip affidavit 1876?
+ BROWN, Peter. Born August 1839/ 1843 St. Paul’s, Red River, to Henry BROWN and Isabella SLATER/ SCLATER [see SLATER/ SCLATER page]; with spouse, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; resided 1876 Poplar Point; scrip affidavit 1876; widowed, 2d married Mary Jane STRANNIGAN (additional children, see SLATER/ SCLATER page).
4. BROWN, [Children]. [See SLATER/ SCLATER page.]
3. BIRD, John James. Born 3 October 1843 St. Andrew’s Red River; baptized 20 October 1843 Red River; with siblings, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; married June 1871; resided 1875 St. Andrews MB; scrip affidavit 1875; with spouse, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census; died 1933.
+ PEEBLES, Margaret. Born c. 1845 St. Andrew’s, Red River, to James PEEBLES and Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ MORRISON; previously 1st married 28 February 1867 St. Andrew’s, Red River, to Thomas JOHNSTON; daughter Eliza Johnston born 1867; widowed 1869; widow, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; 2d married; resided 1875 St. Andrews MB; scrip affidavit 1875; with 2d spouse, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census; scrip index.
4. JOHNSTON/ BIRD, Eliza. Born 1867; with mother, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; with mother and step-father, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census.
4. BIRD, Isabelle/ Isabella. Born c. 1870; with mother (and William RICHARD?), listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; with parents, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census.
4. BIRD, Henry James. Born c. 1872; with parents, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census.
4. BIRD, John. Born c. 1874; with parents, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census.
4. BIRD, David Edward. Born c. 1876; with parents, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census.; with parents, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census.
4. BIRD, Mary Louisa. Born c. 1878; with parents, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census.
4. BIRD, Andrew. Born c. 1880; with parents, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census.
3. BIRD, Morris/ Maurice Henry/ ‘E.’/ Henry Maurice. Born 1847/ 1849 St. Paul’s, Red River; baptized 9 December 1847 Red River; with siblings, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; married 8 February 1872 St. Andrew’s, Red River; farmer, resided 1875 St. Andrews MB; scrip affidavit 1875; died 4 April 1878, St. Andrews MB, age 28; buried 7 April 1878 St. Andrew’s; scrip index.
+ FIDLER, Sarah. Born 4 March 1851 St. Andrew’s, Red River to Patrice/ Peter FIDLER and Amelia ‘Melien’ BIRD; resided 1875 St. Paul ‘now St. Andrews’ MB; scrip affidavit 1875; afterwards 2d married Donald GUNN ‘Jr.’ (children) [see SWAIN/ SWAINE/ SWAN page]; scrip index.
3. BIRD, Caroline/ Carolina. Born c. 1850 St. Andrew’s, Red River; baptized 16 June 1850 Red River; resided St. Andrew’s, Red River; with siblings, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; resided 1875 Poplar Point MB; scrip affidavit 1875.
+ McDONELL, John.
3. BIRD, Edith Jane. Born c. 1854; baptized 4 November 1855 St. Andrew’s, Red River; died 20 October 1863 St. Andrew’s, Red River, age 11; buried 8 November 1865 St. Andrew’s, Red River.
2. BIRD, William. Born 1801/ 1802/ 1803/ 1805; baptized 5 June 1823[?] Red River; married 28 October 1822[?] Church Mission House/ St. John’s, Red River;
• age 25, listed 1828 Red River census, with spouse, 2 sons (under age 16), and 1 house, 1 horse, 2 cows, 5 swine, cultivating acres with his father;
named in father’s will of 21 March 1829;
• age 28, listed 1831 Red River census, with spouse, 2 sons (under age 16), 1 daughter (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 horse, 2 oxen, 2 cows, 4 calves, 11 pigs, 4 cultivated actes, and notation “Lives on a lot of his father’s”;
• age 31, listed 1832 Red River census, with spouse, 3 sons (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 horse, 1 ox, 3 cows, 3 calves, 13 pigs, 5 cultivated acres;
• age 32, listed 1833 Red River census, with spouse, 3 sons (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 horse, 2 oxen, 5 cows, 3 calves, 4 pigs, 1 plough, 3 cultivated acres;
• age 32, listed 1835 Red River census, with spouse, 3 sons (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 2 horses, 2 oxen, 4 cows, 4 calves, 1 pig, 1 canoe, 2 cultivated acres;
• age 35, listed 1838 Red River census, with spouse, 4 son (under age 16), 3 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 horse, 3 oxen, 3 cows, 5 calves, 6 pigs, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 2 carts, 1 canoe, 4 cultivated acres, 1 windmill;
• age 37, listed 1840 Red River census, with spouse, 4 sons (under age 16), 3 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 1 horse, 4 oxen, 1 bull, 3 cows, 2 calves, 7 pigs, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 5 carts, 1 canoe, 6 cultivated acres, 1 windmill;
• age 42, listed 1843 Red River census, with spouse, 1 son (over age 16), 3 sons (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 2 stables, 1 barn, 1 horse, 1 mare, 3 oxen, 1 bull, 4 cows, 2 calves, 6 pigs, 5 sheep, 1 plough, 4 carts, 1 canoe, 6 cultivated acres, 1 windmill;
• age 44, listed 1846 Red River census, wth spouse, 1 son (over age 16), 5 sons (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 2 stables,1 barn, 1 horse, 1 mare, 6 oxen, 10 cows, 4 calves, 7 pigs, 10 sheep, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 3 carts, 1 boat, 18 cultivated acres;
named in father’s will of 21 March 1855; widowed, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census (with/ next to sons Henry, Nicholas, and John Thomas); farmer, resided 1875 Poplar Point MB; scrip affidavit 1875; farmer, listed 1881 High Bluff, Poplar Point MB census; died 18 June 1885 [Winnipeg?]; scrip index.
+ HAY/ MONKMAN/ ‘MORTMAN’, Venus Rubina/ Robina/ ‘Vennie’/ ‘Bennie’/ ‘Beney’/ ‘Bene’. Born 1801 to unidentified parents; reputedly Blackfoot, Hay First Nation; described as “Halfbreed” in sons’ scrip affidavits; baptized 5 June 1823 Red River (named as Venus HAY); died 1864.
3. BIRD, James ‘Jr.’ Born c. 1823 St. Paul’s, Red River; baptized 9 November 1823 Red River (mother named as Bene); married 28 January 1847;
• age 25, listed 1849 Red River census, with spouse, 1 daughter (under age 15), and 1 stable, 3 horses, 2 oxen, 1 bull, 2 cows, 2 calves, 2 pigs, 7 sheep, 5 cultivated acres;
with spouse, listed 1870 St. Peters MB census; farmer, resided 1875 St. Peters MB; scrip affidavit 1875 (names mother as Rubina); with wife, ran the first spinning and weaving mill in St. Andrew’s parish, Red River; “raised cattle and sold hides … had big gardens too” [Beyond the Gates of Lower Fort Garry (1980)]; died 27 April 1891; scrip index.
+ GIBSON/ ‘GIPSON’, Isabella. Born July 1829 St. John’s, Red River, to Hugh GIBSON “a white” and Ann? (not 1st wife Isabella CHALIFOUX?); with spouse, listed 1870 St. Peters MB census; resided 1875 St. Peters MB; scrip affidavit 1875 died 15 May 1901; scrip index.
4. BIRD, Ann ‘Annie’. Born 16 July 1848 St. Andrew’s, Red River; baptized 8 February 1848 Red River; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census; resided 1875 St. Clements MB; scrip affidavit 1875; with parents, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census.
+ McLENNAN/ McLELLAN/ McLEAN, Murdoch ‘Mordo’. Born c. 1826 to John McLENNAN/ McLELLAN/ McLEAN and an unidentified woman; ‘Scottish’; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census.
5. McLEAN, Christine. Born c. 1857; with parents, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census.
5. McLELLAN/ McLEAN, James Alfred. Born c. 1858; with parents, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census.
+ BEAR, Mary Elizabeth.
6. McLELLAN, Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’.
+ GUDMUNDER/ GOODMAN, Palmie ‘Paul’.
5. McLEAN, Roderick. Born c. 1860; with parents, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census.
5. McLEAN, William. Born c. 1862; with parents, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census.
5. McLEAN, Donald. Born c. 1864; with parents, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census.
5. McLEAN, Ann. Born c. 1866; with parents, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census.
5. McLEAN, Mordo. Born c. 1868; with parents, listed 1870 St. Clements MB census.
4. BIRD, Isabel/ Isabella. Born 4 March 1849 St. Andrew’s, Red River; baptized 10 April 1849; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Peters MB census; resided 1875 St. Clements MB; scrip affidavit 1875.
+ REID/ REED, Murdock ‘Mordo’. Born 1835/ 1845 to John REED/ REID and an unidentified woman; ‘Scottish’; HBC employee; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Peters MB census.
5. REID, Catherine. Born 18 November 1866; with parents, listed 1870 St. Peters MB census.
5. REID, John. Born 8 October 1867; with parents, listed 1870 St. Peters MB census.
4. BIRD, Sophia/ Sophie. Born 20 February 1856 St. Andrew’s, Red River; with parents, listed 1870 St. Peters MB census; ‘spinster’, resided 1875 St. Peters MB; scrip affidavit 1875; 1st married 1880; resided Winnipeg MB; widowed 1882; returned to parent’s home at St. Peters MB; 2d married c. 1890; resided Devil’s Creek, East Selkirk, raising cattle and sheep; moved to Selkirk; widowed; at least 5 children; moved back to live with parents; recounted “Grandmother’s sister was married to Francis Hearne, a brother of Sir Samuel Hearne, [she went with?] a brother to Ireland twice and told us all about her trips when she visited at our home. There was also a connection through my grandmother to Sir John A. McDonald, but I don’t remember it exactly. The relatives I knew best were Fulshers at Parkdale and the Hays, at St. Andrews” [Elsie MacKay, Selkirk’s 75th Anniversary (n.d.), 53]; received telegrams on 100th birthday, 1956, including from Queen Elizabeth and John Diefenbaker; appeared on television 1959; died 20 December 1960 at home, age 104; [see also photograph “Slideshow: Women of Red River” page]; scrip index.
+ SABEL, William Turner. Of England; arrived 1875 MB; “settled for a time at Whytewold” MB; “an amateur artist and worked as an interpreter for people, coming to settle in Manitoba” [Beyond the Gates of Lower Fort Garry (1880), 384]; died of scarlet fever, age 30, Winnipeg MB.
5. SABEL, Henry. died 1938 car accident.
+ Maggie.
6. SABEL, Sybil.
6. SABEL, Nellie.
6. SABEL, Mae.
6. SABEL, Bill.
6. SABEL, Doris.
6. SABEL, Clifford.
6. SABEL, Henry.
+ ANDERSON, George. Arrived 1875 MB from Guelph ON; died 1892 Selkirk MB “killed near his home by a runaway team of horses that knocked fish boxes on him” [Beyond the Gates of Lower Fort Garry (1980)].
5. ANDERSON? [or SABEL?], Mary. resided St. Peters MB; died 1979.
+ FLETT.
5. ANDERSON, Edward.
5. ANDERSON, Catherine.
+ CLEMONS.
5. ANDERSON, Georgina ‘Gina’.
+ McLEOD. “a trapper”.
6. McLEOD, Earnest.
6. McLEOD, Violet.
6. McLEOD, Alice.
+ GRAHOME, Lloyd.
6. McLEOD, Betty.
+ MacSEPHNEY, Bob.
6. McLEOD, Ida.
+ BOLAND.
4. BIRD, Charles ‘Charlie’. Born 25 April 1860 St. Andrew’s, Red River; with parents, listed 1870 St. Peters MB census; resided 1875 St. Peters MB; father’s scrip affidavit 1875; “went to the Klondike Gold Rush with Robert Smith of Selkirk” [Beyond the Gates of Lower Fort Garry (1980)]; with parents? and with spouse, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census; scrip index.
+ MONKMAN, Annie. Born c. 1860; with spouse, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census.
5. BIRD, William ‘Bill’. Born c. 1880; with parents, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census.
3. BIRD, William ‘Jr.’/ ‘the Younger’. Born November 1825/ 1826[?] ‘Winnipeg’, Red River; baptized 8 January 1826 Red River (mother named as Bennie HAY);
• age 23, listed 1849 Red River census [on father’s original holding?], with spouse[?], 1 unmarried woman, and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 1 mare, 2 oxen, 4 cows, 2 calves, 2 pigs, 5 sheep, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 11 ploughed acres, 1 windmill;
HBC career (miller, farmer, freighter); 1st formally married 1855; resided from 1861 Edmonton [AB]; 2d married 1874 Edmonton [AB]; resided 1885 Edmonton [AB]; scrip declaration 1885 (names mother as Bene HAY).
+ Sophie.
+ TABOR, Fanny. “Indian of White Fish Lake”/ “Halfbreed”.
4. BIRD, John James. Born 1874/ 1875; baptized autumn 1875 ‘The Hermitage’; died c. 1878 Old Fort Edmonton.
4. BIRD, William Robert. Born c. 1876; baptized 16 April 1876 ‘The Hermitage’; died 1886/ 1887 age ‘about 12’?
4. BIRD, Caroline. Born 20 June 1878 Strathcona; resided 1900 Strathcona; scrip claim 1900 (names father as William BIRD “son of James”; scrip claim 1900 on behalf of deceased siblings; scrip index; scrip index.
4. BIRD, Nicholas. Born 9 May 1881 Edmonton [AB]; resided 1900 Strathcona; scrip claim 1900.
4. BIRD, Elizabeth. Born c. 1883; baptized 30 September 1883 ‘The Hermitage’; died c. 1883 age 5/ 6 mos.
4. BIRD, Flora Ann Mary. Born 24 June/ summer 1885; attended, 1897–1900, Methodist Industrial [mis-transcribed ‘Montreal’] School, Red Deer [AB] (see Alberta Residential Schools this site); scrip claim 1900; scrip index.
?3. BIRD, Betsy. Born c. 1825; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Peters MB census.
+ KENNEDY, Adam. Born c. 1820 to John KENNEDY and an unidentified woman.
3. BIRD, Charles. baptized 18 March 1832 St. John’s, Red River (names mother as Venus).
3. BIRD, Mary. Born 15 March 1832/ 1835 St. Paul’s, Red River; baptized 18 March 1832/ 1835 Red River (names mother as Venus); married 28 August 1860 Fort Simpson, North West; resided 1897 Fort Vermillion; scrip declaration 1897 (names mother as Venus); died 25 July 1911 St. John’s MB.
+ SMITH, William Robert ‘Jr.’. Born 21 September 1833 St. John’s, Red River, to William Robert SMITH ‘Sr.’ and Mary Ann SWAIN; baptized 22 September 1833 St. John’s, Red River; HBC career; scrip declaration 1897; “lived at St Johns Man until 1854, then came to Fort Simpson and Fort McPherson where I lived until 1857, then Fort [Liard?] 1860 – Big Island 1861 & 1862 – Fort Simpson till 1865. Fort Providence till 1866 – Fort Simpson 1867 – Great Slave Lake Fort Resolution until 1885 – since then I have lived 2 years at Chippewyan and for the last 12 years I have lived here [Fort Vermilion]”; resided 1899 Fort Vermillion; died 20 October 1919 Vermilion AB.
4. SMITH, [children]. [See SWAIN/ SWAINE/ SWAN page.]
3. BIRD, Sarah [I?]. baptized 20 July 1835 Red River (names mother as Venus).
?3. BIRD, Isabella. baptized 26 July 1835.
3. BIRD, Joseph. baptized 29 October 1837 Red River.
3. BIRD, George. Born c. 1841 St. Paul’s, Red River; baptized 14 November 1841 (names mother as Venus); with spouse, listed 1870 St. Paul MB census; died 7 April 1872; widow’s scrip affidavit 1875 (names mother as Rubina).
+ HAYWOOD/ HEYWOOD/ HOWARD, Elizabeth. Born c. 1847 to Charles HAYWOOD/ HOWARD and an unidentified woman; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Paul MB census; widowed; 2d married McLELLAN; resided 1875 St. Paul MB.
4. BIRD/ McLELLAN, Ann Caroline ‘Annie’. Born c. 1864; with relatives, listed 1870 St. Paul MB census.
+ FIDLER, Joseph. Born 1862; died 1934.
5. FIDLER, Bella.
+ PALMER, James. Born 1881; died 1963.
6. PALMER, Viola.
+ NICHOLS, Sid. Born 1918; died 1967.
4. BIRD/ McLELLAN, Sophia. Born c. 1868; with parents, listed 1870 St. Paul MB census.
3. BIRD, Henry. baptized 6 November 1843 St. John’s, Red River (names mother as Venus); with father and brothers, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census.
3. BIRD, Nicholas. Born 1 April 1846/ 1847/ 1848, St. Paul’s, Red River; baptized 3 May 1846/ 1847 Red River (names mother as Venus); with toddler daughter and with brothers, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; farmer, resided 1875 Poplar Point MB; scrip affidavit 1875 (gives mother’s name as Rubina MONKMAN, surname mis-transcribed as MORTMAN by LAC); with 2d spouse, listed 1881 Prince Albert [SK] North West census?; resided 1900 Halcro [SK]; died 13 June 1924, St. Andrew’s, Halcro SK; scrip index.
+ SHARP, Margaret. Born c. 1850; died c. 1868?
4. BIRD, Sarah ‘Jane’. Born c. 1868; with father, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census.
+ HALCRO/ HALCROW, Mary. Born c. 1857?; with spouse, listed 1881 Prince Albert [SK] North West census?
4. BIRD, Joseph ‘Joe’ William. Born 17 December 1876 St. Catherine’s [SK]; baptized 21 January 1877; with parents, listed 1881 Prince Albert [SK] North West census?; resided 1900 Halcro; scrip claim 1900; scrip index.
4. BIRD, John ‘Thomas’. Born 14 October 1878 Halcro [SK]; baptized 27 November 1878; with parents, listed 1881 Prince Albert [SK] North West census?; resided 1900 Halcro [SK]; scrip claim 1900; scrip index.
4. BIRD, Mary ‘Margaret’. Born 15 July 1880 Halcro [Prince Albert SK]; baptized 28 July 1880; with parents, listed 1881 Prince Albert [SK] North West census?; resided 1900 Prince Albert [SK]; scrip claim 1900.
+ COWAN, Albert.
4. BIRD, Henry James. Born 14 May 1882; baptized 3 April 1882 Halcro [Prince Albert SK]; resided 1900 Halcro [Prince Albert SK]; scrip claim 1900; scrip index.
4. BIRD, Curtis George. Born 15 March 1884 Halcro [SK]; baptized 27 April 1884; resided 1900 Halcro [SK]; scrip claim 1900; scrip index.
?3. BIRD, Sarah [II?]. Born 1840/ 1841/ 11 July 1848 Red River; with spouse listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; scrip issued 1876.
+ SHARP, William. Born 1845 to Edward SHARP and Sarah; ‘Irish’; with spouse, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census.
4. SHARP, William Henry. Born c. 1867; with parents, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census.
3. BIRD, John Thomas ‘Jack’. Born 25 October 1850 St. Paul’s, Red River; baptized 28 November 1850 St. Paul’s, Red River?; with father and brothers, listed 1870 Poplar Point MB census; with brother Nicholas, listed 1881 Prince Albert [SK] North West census?; married 1882 Prince Albert [SK]; resided 1900 Prince Albert [SK]; died 18 December 1946, Birch Hills SK; buried St. Saviour’s, Birch Hills SK.
+ CAMPBELL, Frances Elizabeth ‘Bessie’. Born out of wedlock 4 October 1865/ 1867 St. Andrew’s, Red River, to Richard Duncan CAMPBELL and Catherine HALCRO; raised by maternal aunt and uncle, Margaret HALCRO and James MONKMAN [see MONKMAN page]; resided 1900 Prince Albert [SK]; died 1925 Birch Hills SK; buried St. Saviour’s, Birch Hills SK.
4. BIRD, William Robert. Born 7 October 1883 Prince Albert [SK]; baptized 28 October 1883 St. Marys [SK]; died 9 May 1884 Halcro Settlement, South Branch [SK]; buried 11 May 1884 St. Marys [SK]; mother’s scrip claim 1900; scrip index.
4. BIRD, Alice Mabel. Born 19 June 1885, Qu’Appelle [SK]; resided 1900 Prince Albert [SK]; scrip claim 1900; scrip index; died 1965.
+ JOBE, Burton. Born 7 September 1883; died 1937.
5. JOBE, Rubina Frances. Born 1 July 1918; died 1998.
4. BIRD, Blanche Louise. Born 7 September 1892.
4. BIRD, Catherine. Born 21 September 1894.
4. BIRD, Laura May. Born 1896; married 1925; died 1973.
+ PETERSON, Elmer Martines. Born 1890; died 1971.
4. BIRD, John J. Born 17 April 1899.
+ MONTOUR, Elizabeth. Born c. 1777/ 1789 [SK?] to Nicholas Jean dit Menard MONTOUR ‘Sr.’ and an unidentified Indigenous woman; lineage reputedly “included roots in the Cree, Shawnee, Oneida, Iroquois and Algonquin tribes” — her father was baptized 31 October 1756, Albany, child of Andrew ‘Sattelihu’ MONTOUR and Sarah AINSE/ Sally HANDS (born 1728; died 1823 ON). Nicholas Jean dit MONTOUR died 6 August 1808 Pointe du Lac, Quebec. Elizabeth Montour’s grandfather, Andrew ‘Sattelihu’ MONTOUR (born c. 1700 and died 1775), was a son of ‘Chief’ ONEIDA and Elizabeth COUC (born c. 1667 at Trois Rivieres; died c. 1752 Pennysylvania; a daughter of Pierre COUC and Marie MITE AMECKE); Elizabeth Montour was baptized 13 May 1821?; formally married James Bird ‘Sr.’ 30 March 1821; died autumn 1834, age 45; buried 1 November 1834 St. John’s, Red River.
2. BIRD, Elizabeth Maria. Born c. 1806; married 3 December 1829, by banns, St. John’s, Red River; died April 1845.
+ SINCLAIR, James. Born 1805/ 1806/ 1809/ 1810/ 1811 to William SINCLAIR [I] and Nahoway/ Margaret HOLDEN [see SINCLAIR page]; educated Scotland; returned c. 1826/ 1828; from 1832 listed Red River censuses; Oregon colonizer 1841, 1844; in San Francisco 1844/ 1849; 2d married 20 April 1848 to Mary CAMPBELL (children); council for defense, 1849 Sayer Trial, Red River; appointed 1853 first Postmaster Red River; with family, migrated 1854 to Oregon; died 1856 Cascades, Columbia River [OR U.S.]; [see extended bio details SINCLAIR page].
3. SINCLAIR, [Children]. [See SINCLAIR page.]
2. BIRD, John ‘Jack’. Born 1807/ 1808/ 1810/ 1811, Fort Edmonton [the provenance for a middle name ‘Philip’ is weak]; married 29 March 1826 St. John’s, Red River;
• age 21, listed 1828 Red River census, with spouse, 1 mare, 1 cow, 1 calf, 1 swine, with note “stops with his father”;
• age 21, listed 1832 Red River census, with spouse, 1 daughter (under age 15), with 1 house, 1 mare, 2 oxen, 2 cows, 2 calves, 8 pigs;
• age 28 [sic: 23?], listed 1833 Red River census, with spouse, 2 sons (under age 16), 1 daughter (under age 15), with 1 house, 5 oxen, 3 cows, 2 calves, 6 pigs, 1 plough;
• age 27, listed 1835 Red River census, with spouse, 1 son (under age 16), 1 daughter (under age 15), with 1 house, 5 horses, 4 oxen, 5 cows, 7 calves, 6 pigs, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 1 cart, 1 canoe;
• age 30, listed 1838 Red River census, with spouse, 4 sons (under age 16), 1 daughter (under age 15), with 1 house, 1 stable, 2 horses, 3 mares, 10 oxen, 1 bull, 4 cows, 8 calves, 2 pigs, 1 plough, 2 harrows, 4 carts, 12 cultivated acres;
age 30, died 1837/ 15 October 1838/ 1839 near Pembina, MN Terr. U.S., of a gunshot wound inflicted by Thomas Simpson (reputed to be insane cousin of Sir George Simpson); buried 15 October 1838/ 1840 Red River.
• age 32, listed 1840 Red River census, with spouse, 2 sons (under age 16), 1 daughter (under age 15), 1 male servant, and 1 house, 2 stables, 1 barn, 2 horses, 2 mares, 6 oxen, 4 cows, 5 calves, 1 pig, 1 plough, 2 harrows, 5 carts, 5 cultivated acres;
+ McKAY/ MacKAY, Mary. Born 19 March 1810 Brandon House to John Richards McKAY ‘Sr.’ and Mary FAVEL (see MacKAY/ McKAY page);
• widow, listed 1843 Red River census, with 2 sons (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 ox, 1 cow, 1 pig;
• age 27 [sic], widow, listed 1849 Red River census with 2 sons (under age 16), 2 daughters (under age 15), and no other entries.
died 1858, Vancouver, Clark Co. WA Terr. U.S.
3. BIRD, John ‘Jr.’ Born c. 1829?; died age 21?; buried 8 June 1850 St. John’s, Red River?
3. BIRD, Simon. baptized 20 December 1830 Red River.
3. BIRD, Elizabeth ‘Eliza’. baptized 18 August 1833 Red River.
3. BIRD, Charles James. baptized 28 December 1835 Red River.
3. BIRD, William. baptized 11 May 1838 Red River.
2. BIRD, Letitia/ Loetitia ‘Letty’. Born 10 February 1810 Brandon House; reputedly “could trace her a remarkable lineage that included roots in the Cree, Shawne, Oneida, Iroquois and Algonquin tribes, through her mother”; baptized 13 May 1821 Red River; “second child in a family of eleven”; married 2 October 1827, by banns, St. John’s, Red River; migrated with James SINCLAIR’s party of settlers to Oregon 1841; named in father’s will of 21 March 1855; with husband and 4 children; had 10/ 11 children (one an adopted granddaughter) and “raised 23 orphan children and had three with her, at the time of her death”; died 16 February 1897 Glencoe [North Plains, Washington County OR], age 87 “and 6 days”; buried grave no. 68 Harrison Cemetery [Vadis] OR U.S.
+ McKAY/ MacKAY, Charles Richard. Born 8 February 1807/ 1808 Brandon House [MB] to John Richard McKAY and Mary FAVEL (see MacKAY/ McKAY page); “seventh son”; member of the ‘Wolf Pack Meeting’ often held at his house to form the state of Oregon; founder of Glencoe Settlement; died 28 May 1873/ 1 April 1873, Glencoe OR U.S.
3. McKAY, [Children]. [See MacKAY/ McKAY page.]
2. BIRD, Levi/ Levy. Born c. 1813 Edmonton House; 1st married 9 November 1832, by banns, St. John’s, Red River;
• age 20, listed 1833 Red River census, with spouse, and 1 house, 1 cow;
• age 22, listed 1835 Red River census, with spouse, 1 son (under age 16), and 1 house, 1 stable, 2 horses, 2 oxen, 2 cows, 2 calves, 2 cultivated acres;
• age 25, listed 1838 Red River census, with spouse, 2 sons (under age 16), 1 daughter (under age 15), 1 male servant, 1 female servant, and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 2 horses, 4 oxen, 4 cows, 4 calves, 3 pigs, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 1 canoe, 3 cultivated acres;
widowed 1838/ 1840;
• age 27, listed 1840 Red River census, with spouse, 2 sons (under age 16), 1 daughter (under age 15), 2 female servants, and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 1 mare, 2 oxen, 3 cows, 2 calves, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 1 cart, 8 cultivated acres;
died age 63; buried 12 January 1864 St. John’s, Red River.
+ THOMAS, Jane. Born 1813/ 1815 to Thomas THOMAS ‘Sr.’ of the HBC and Sarah, a Cree woman [see THOMAS page]; baptized 10 November 1822; named in her father’s of 1828, inherited £1,000 in three per cent Bank of England consols; died 1838/ 1840 age 25; buried 24 October 1838/ 1840 Red River.
3. BIRD, Thomas Levi. Born 3 April 1832 St. Paul’s, Red River; baptized 2 July 1834 Red River; resided 1875 St. Andrews MB; scrip affidavit 1875; scrip index.
+ MONTREUIL/ MOUTREL/ MONTRET, Rosalie. Born c. 1839 to Louis MONTREUIL and an unidentified woman; (probably not born Montreal); afterwards married BEAL?; near son, listed and again listed, 1870 St. Andrews MB census, next to James BIRD and Sarah BUTTS, Philip BIRD and Mary KIPLING, and Nancy BIRD-KNIGHT; resided 1875 St. Andrews MB.
4. BIRD, Charles James. Born November 1860 St. Andrew’s, Red River; near mother, listed and again listed, 1870 St. Andrews MB census, in the home of Thomas SETTER/ LETTER and Isabelle LUTED, next to James BIRD and Sarah BUTTS, Philip BIRD and Mary KIPLING, and Nancy BIRD-KNIGHT; mother’s scrip affidavit 1875; scrip index.
3. BIRD, Sophia. Born 1834 St. Paul’s, Red River; baptized 8 May 1836 Red River; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; resided 1875 St. Andrews MB; scrip affidavit 1875; died 9 September 1891 St. Andrew’s, MB.
+ KNIGHT, John. Born 1830/ 1832 to James KNIGHT and Sophia HALLETT; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; resided 1877 St. Andrews MB.
4. KNIGHT, Maria. Born c. 1857; with parents, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census.
4. KNIGHT, George. Born 13 October 1861 St. Paul’s, Red River; baptized 13 October 1861 Red River; with parents, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census; father’s scrip affidavit 1877.
4. KNIGHT, Margaret. Born c.1862; with parents, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census.
4. KNIGHT, William. Born c.1864; with parents, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census.
4. KNIGHT, Ann E. Born c. 1866; with parents, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census.
4. KNIGHT, Catherine. Born c. 1868; with parents, listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census.
3. BIRD, James Edward. baptized 17 December 1837 Red River.
?+ TAYLOR, Betsy. ‘Cree Indian’.
3. BIRD, Henry. Born 10 May 1844 St. Paul’s, Red River; resided 1864 St. Andrew’s, Red River; married 1 September 1864 St. Andrew’s, Red River; fur trader and labourer, in service HBC Athabasca District; resided 1869–1870 Fort Alexander [MB]; took treaty 1871 St. Peters Band; resided St. Peter’s, Red River; invalided c. 1879; described 1885 as “treaty halfbreed”; with spouse, listed 1881 St. Clements MB census; resided 1885 St. Andrew’s Red River; petition of discharge from treaty 1885; withdrew from treaty 1886; died 1892.
+ LOUIS/ LEWIS, Chloe. Born 1845/ 1851 to farmer James LEWIS and an unidentified woman; resided 1864 St. Andrew’s, Red River; with spouse, listed 1881 St. Clements MB census.
?+ Nancy. Born c. 1800; listed 1870 St. Andrews MB census.
3. BIRD, James. Born c. 1845 to Levi BIRD ‘a white man’ and Nancy (according to wife Emilia BOUCHER); 1 sister and 1 brother; ‘from Winnipeg’; married c. 1865 Stuart’s Lake; resided Grand Prairie 1865–1875; fur-trader 1885 HBC; died 1890/ 1891; widow’s scrip claim 1900.
+ BOUCHER/ BOUCHE, Amelia/ Emelia/ Emilia/ Emilie. Born c. 1849 ‘across the mountains’/ ‘Winnipeg’, Red River, to James BOUCHER (born to George BOUCHER and Nancy) and Marie PLANTE (born to Antoine PLANTE and Marie GEORGE); 5 sisters (named in scrip claim); “I lived in British Columbia about sixteen years”; widow, 2d married c. 1896 to Etienne BERARD; resided 1900 Strathcona; scrip claim 1900 on behalf of deceased children; scrip claim 1900 on behalf of 2 living daughters; resided 1901 Edmonton; scrip claim 1901; scrip index.
4. BIRD, James. Born c. 1868 Stuart’s Lake/ Fort George BC; ‘1st child’.
4. BIRD, Joseph M. Born 1871/ 1872 Trout Lake/ Fort McMurray/ ‘St. John’/ Peace River; ‘2d child’; resided 1886–1900 Fort Chipewyan; resided 1900 Athabasca Landing; scrip claim notice; scrip claim 1900; at Fort McMurray as trader 1902 for Ross Brothers Shelf and Heavy Hardware; scrip index; scrip index.
4. BIRD, Mary. Born before 1871 Stuart’s Lake/ c. 1875 Grand Prairie; resided 1900 Stuart’s Lake BC.
+ MURRAY, A.C. resided 1900 Hazelton BC.
4. BIRD, George. Born before 1871 Grand Prairie.
4. BIRD, Sara/ Sarah. Born before 1871/ 1876 Lesser Slave Lake; resided 1900 Edmonton; scrip claim 1900.
+ DONALD, William.
4. BIRD, Marion/ Mary Ann. Born before 1871/ 1876 Lesser Slave Lake; resided 1900 Golden BC; scrip claim 1900.
+ CARRUTHERS, William.
4. BIRD, Elizabeth ‘Eliza’. Born 10 November 1883/ 1884 Slave Lake; died 1889 Edmonton, age 6; buried 23 January 1889 St. Albert [AB].
4. BIRD, Bethsy. Born fall 1885 near Athabasca Landing; died 1889, age 3 yrs. 5 mos.; buried 10 April 1889 St. Albert [AB].
4. BIRD, William ‘Willie’. Born c. 1886? Slave Lake; died 1890, age 4?; buried 20 February 1890 St. Albert [AB].
4. BIRD, Jennie. Born c. 1881 Slave Lake/ 1887 Bear’s Lake; resided “with her sister” 1900 Stuart’s Lake BC.
4. BIRD, Maggie. Born c. 1890?
?3. BIRD, Betsy.
?3. BIRD, William.
2. BIRD, Philip. Born ca. 1818 Red River; baptized 30 March 1821 Red River; married 4 February 1847 Upper Church/ St. John’s, Red River;
• age 30, listed 1849 Red River census, with spouse, 1 son (under age 16), and 1 House, 1 stable, 2 mares, 1 cow, 1 calf, 1 cart, 6 cultivated acres;
reputed to be Roman Catholic; migrated to Oregon with James SINCLAIR’s party 1854; died 1 June 1910 Sumner, Pierce Co. WA U.S.
+ FIDLER, Mary. Born c. 1831 to Thomas FIDLER and either his first wife Nancy/ ELizabeth HALLETT or his second wife Jane KIPLING; Mary FIDLER died c. 1877 Pierce Co. WA Terr. U.S.
3. BIRD, Maurice. Born November 1847 Red River; baptized 12 November 1847; died November 1847 Red River, age 3 weeks; buried 20 November 1847 Red River.
3. BIRD, Joseph James. Born 8 November 1848 Red River; baptized 23 November 1848 Red River; died 31 December 1935 Roy, Pierce County WA.
3. BIRD, Mary Eliza. Baptized 29 December 1850 Red River; married 17 December 1866 Pierce County, Washington Territory.
+ BREWER, James.
3. BIRD, Roderick. Baptized 29 May 1853; married 15 February 1886, Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington Territory; died 29 August 1935, Tacoma, Pierce County.
+ WOODWARD, Catherine.
3. BIRD, Harriet Maria. Born c. 1855 Hillsboro, Washington Territory; died 3 August 1887 Teniono, Thurston County, Washington Territory.
3. BIRD, Anna L. Born c. 1857, Washington Territory; died 30 September 1935.
3. BIRD, Aurilla. Born c. 1860 Washington Territory; married 22 August 1873 Steilacoom, Pierce County, Washington Territory; died 7 June 1937 Western State Hospital, Steilacoom, Pierce County.
+ BASTIEN, Isaac. Born c. 1849 Washington Territory; died 10 July 1936, Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington Territory.
?2. BIRD, Henry. baptized 13 May 1821 Red River (Elizabeth’s step-son Henry above?).
2. BIRD, Arthur. Born [1811?] c. 1822; baptized 20 October 1822 Red River; migrated to Oregon 1854 with James SINCLAIR’s party.
+ Unidentified woman.
2. BIRD, Mary. baptized 11 October 1829 Red River; named in father’s will of 21 March 1829; 1st married 1842 Red River; named in father’s will of 21 March 1855; 2d married 18 October 1860 St. John’s, Red River; died before 1870.
+ McKENZIE, Hector. Born c. 1788 to Charles McKENZIE and Mary McKAY.
3. BIRD/ McKENZIE, Mary. Born c. 1842; baptized 2 August 1843 Red River.
3. McKENZIE, Hugh. Married 19 July 1878.
+ McLENNAN, Mary Ann. Born 2 November 1869 St. Clement’s, Red River Settlement.
+ LANE, William Douglas. Born c. 1819 Ireland to John LANE and an unidentified woman; widower, listed 1870 St. Francois Xavier MB census; farmer, resided 1875 St. James MB.
3. LANE, Eliza Harriet. Born 19 May 1863 St. Francois Xavier, Red River; baptized 29 June 1863 St. John’s, Red River; with father, listed 1870 St. Francois Xavier MB census; resided 1875 St. James MB; father’s scrip affidavit 1875.
2. BIRD, Thomas. Born c. 1815/ 1816; baptized 13 May 1821 Red River; married 21 April 1836, by banns, St. John’s, Red River;
• age 23, listed 1838 Red River census, with spouse, 1 daughter (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 barn, 1 horse, 1 mare, 2 oxen, 1 cow, 1 calf, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 2 carts, 25[sic] cultivated acres, 1 windmill;
• age 25, listed 1840 Red River census, with spouse, 1 son (under age 16), 1 daughter (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 barn, 1 mare, 3 oxen, 3 cows, 5 calves, 5 pigs, 1 plough, 2 carts, 9 cultivated acres, 1 windmill;
• age 28, listed 1843 Red River census, with spouse, 2 sons (under age 16), 1 daughter (under age 15), and 1 house, 1 stable, 2 horses, 3 oxen, 2 cows, 2 calves, 4 pigs, 3 carts, 1 windmill;
?• age 31, listed 1846 Red River census as unmarried, no children [sic: census copy seems to have a number of errors, suggesting wrong names applied to assets?], 1 house, 2 stables, 1 barn, 1 horse, 3 mares, 11 oxen, 3 cows, 2 calves, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 2 carts, 16 cultivated acres;
• age 31, listed 1849 Red River census, with spouse, 3 sons (under age 16), 1 daughter (under age 16), and 1 house, 1 stable, 1 horse, 1 mare, 3 cows, 1 calf, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 3 carts, 12 cultivated acres, 1 windmill;
migrated 1854 to Oregon in brother-in-law James SINCLAIR’s party.
+ McDERMOT/ DERMOTE, Mary Harriet/ Ellen/ Helen. Born 1819 St. John’s, Red River to Andrew McDERMOT and Sarah Mary McNAB [see McNAB page]; baptized 12 August 1821; widow? resided 1870 St. Charles MB; widow, listed 1870 St. James MB census; resided 1875 St. James MB; scrip affidavit 1875; widow by 1881; scrip index.
3. BIRD, Sara/ Sarah. Born 1837/ 1841 Red River; baptized 24 March 1837 Red River; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Charles MB census; resided 1870 St. Charles MB; resided 1875 Baie St. Paul; scrip affidavit 1875.
+ BRACONNIER, Antoine. Born 10 November 1838 to Baptiste BRACONNIER and Lisette BEAUCHEMIN; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Charles MB census; farmer, resided 1875 Baie St. Paul.
4. BIRD/ BRACONNIER, Mary Jane. Born 2 January 1858; ‘illegitimate’; with parents, listed 1870 St. Charles MB census; adoptive father’s scrip affidavit 1875.
4. BRACONNIER, Marie Josephine. Born c. 1861; with parents, listed 1870 St. Charles MB census.
4. BRACONNIER, Jean Joseph. Born 1862/ 1864; with parents, listed 1870 St. Charles MB census.
4. BRACONNIER, Thomas. Born c. 1865; with parents, listed 1870 St. Charles MB census.
4. BRACONNIER, Antoine. Born c. 1863; with parents, listed 1870 St. Charles MB census.
4. BRACONNIER, Robert. Born 1870.
4. BRACONNIER, Joseph Carlos Dominique. Born 1872.
4. BRACONNIER, Jean Baptiste. Born 1874.
3. BIRD, Catherine. Born 4 February 1841 Norway House [MB]; died 3 March 1842, age 13 mos.; buried 3 March 1842 St. John’s, Red River.
3. BIRD, Thomas. Born 9 February 1843 Norway House; baptized 9 February 1843 Red River; married 15 November 1860.
+ BROWN, Elizabeth. Born c. 1844 to Peter BROWN and Sarah BREMNER; widowed?; 2d married Antoine WELSH; with 2d spouse, listed 1870 St. Charles MB census.
4. BIRD, Sara Ann. Born c. 1861; with mother, listed 1870 St. Charles MB census; married 1879 Winnipeg MB; with spouse, moved 1884 ND U.S.; died 23 April 1905.
+ BARCELO, George.
4. BIRD, John Andrew. Born c. 1863; with mother, listed 1870 St. Charles MB census.
3. BIRD, Henry. baptized 29 December 1844 ‘colony’; died age 14/ 19 mos.; buried 14 July 1846 St. John’s, Red River.
3. BIRD, John. Born 10 June 1847 St. James, Red River; with mother, listed 1870 St. James MB census; farmer, resided 1875 St. James MB; scrip affidavit 1875; scrip index.
3. BIRD, Robert Miles. Born 17 February 1850 St. James, Red River; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Charles MB census; farmer, resided 1875 St. Charles MB; scrip affidavit 1875; scrip index.
+ MORRISSETTE/ MORISSETTE, Adelaide. Born 26 February 1852 to Baptiste MORISETTE and Adelaide BRACONNIER; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Charles MB census; resided 1875 St. Charles MB; scrip affidavit 1875; scrip index.
4. BIRD, John/ Jean Thomas. Born 9 September 1870; with parents, listed 1870 St. Charles MB census; mother’s scrip affidavit 1875; scrip index.
3. BIRD, Charles. Born 12 September 1852 Norway House; with mother, listed 1870 St. James MB census; married 24 April 1873.
+ ADAM/ ADAMS, Mary. Born fall 1850 Fort Alexander [MB] to Joseph ADAMS and Archange OUELETTE; resided 1877 St. James MB; scrip affidavit 1877; scrip index.
3. BIRD, Mary/ Margaret. Born 24 December 1854 Norway House/ St. John’s, Red River; with mother, listed 1870 St. James MB census; ‘spinster’, resided 1875 St. James MB; scrip affidavit 1875; scrip index.
2. BIRD, Chloe. Born c. 1815; baptized 13 May 1821; married 25 April 1833, by banns, St. John’s, Red River; died 1842 Columbia River, Oregon Territory.
+ FLETT, James. Born 1813 to Rev. George FLETT and Margaret ‘Peggy’ WHITFORD [see WHITFORD page]; baptized 7 December 1823; died 1843 Columbia River, Oregon Territory.
3. FLETT, Margaret.
3. FLETT, Mary.
3. FLETT, Charlotte. Born c. 1840 Red River; resident 1850 in Oregon Territory.
3. FLETT, Jemima.
2. BIRD, Nicholas Garry. Born 1824; baptized 2 August 1824 St. John’s, Red River; migrated to Oregon 1841 with James SINCLAIR’s party; died Umatilla Indian Reservation OR.
+
2. BIRD, Peter. baptized 2 July 1826 Red River; died 18 mos.; buried 4 December 1827 Red River.
+ KELLY, Mary. Born 1801; previously 1st married LOWMAN; widowed; Governess, Girl’s School/ Seminary Red River; received a grant of £2,500 in trust from Bird; then married him 22 January 1835; died 1873 at Chesnut, Hertfordshire, England.
2. BIRD, Curtis James [Dr., Hon.]. Born c. 1837; baptized 12 February 1838 ‘White Cottage’, Red River; named in father’s will of 21 March 1855; farmer, age 24, 1st married 6 February 1862 St. Andrew’s, Red River; Coroner, from 1862, Red River/ Assiniboia; member, from 1868, HBC Council of Assiniboia; widowed; “Dr. Bird,” Nor’-Wester (28 December 1869), 2; honourable member, representing St. Paul’s/ Middlechurch, Legislative Assembly, Provisional Government of Assiniboia; with 2d spouse, listed 1870 Winnipeg MB census; Coroner, Province of Manitoba; elected 1871 to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, representing St. Paul’s; appointed 1873–1874 Speaker of the House MB Legislature; resided 1875 St. Johns MB; died 1876, London, England; scrip index (garbles info).
+ ROSS, Frances. Born c. 1840 to Donald ROSS (born c. 1798; HBC career) and Mary ‘Molly’ McBEATH/ McBETH (born 1 May in Linibul Scotland to Alexander McBEATH of Sutherlandshire [died September 1848 Red River] and Christina GUNN of Dallagen, Sutherlandshire [died 1855 Red River]); Frances’ brothers included Roderick ROSS Sr., and Donald ROSS Jr.; died 28 February 1867; buried 1867 St. John’s, Red River.
3. BIRD, James Roderick [Dr.]. Born 16 June 1863; baptized 10 September 1863 St. Paul’s, Red River; with father and step-mother, listed 1870 Winnipeg MB census; with half-brothers, listed 1881 Kildonan MB census; died 31 August 1953; “Obituary,” M.A.J. vol. 69 (November 1953), 542: “Dr. James Roderick Bird, aged 90, a doctor whose roots went deep into Manitoba’s history, died on August 31 at his home in Winnipeg. Dr. Bird’s grandfather was a Chief Factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, whose [sic: his] father, Dr. Curtis James Bird, was the first speaker of Manitoba’s Legislative Assembly. Born at Middlechurch, Manitoba, Dr. James Bird practiced at Whitewood, Sask., until 1922 and until his retirement in 1931 he served with the department of Indian affairs at Norway House and Hodgson. He is survived by his widow, two sons and two daughters.
+ Adrienne. Born 1880 France.
3. BIRD, Donald Ross. Born November 1865; died 1866 age 10 mos. 27 days; buried 5 September 1866 St. John’s, Red River.
3. BIRD, Mary Annabella. Born 29 November 1866; baptized 22 January 1867 St. Paul’s, Red River; with father and step-mother, listed 1870 Winnipeg MB census.
+ ROSS, Annabella/ Anna Bella. Born 22 August 1832 to Donald ROSS/ ‘REISE’ (born c. 1798) and Mary ‘Molly’ McBEATH/ McBETH (born 1 May in Linibul Scotland to Alexander McBEATH of Sutherlandshire [died September 1848 Red River] and Christina GUNN of Dallagen, Sutherlandshire [died 1855 Red River]); previously 1st married Charles Edward McDERMOT (see McNAB page); with 2d spouse, listed 1870 Winnipeg MB census; died 22 August 1874; buried 22 August 1874 St. John’s MB; husband’s scrip affidavit 1875 (with her will).
3. BIRD, Alfred Curtis. Born June 1868, St. John’s, Red River; baptized 12 August 1868 St. John’s, Red River; with parents, listed 1870 Winnipeg MB census; died 25 May 1875 age 7; buried 25 May 1875 St. John’s MB.
3. BIRD, George Henry. Born May 1870; baptized 19 June 1870 St. John’s MB; with parents, listed 1870 Winnipeg MB census; with brothers, listed 1881 Kildonan MB census; died 1943.
3. BIRD, Colin Alexander. Born 5 April 1872; baptized 1873 St. John’s MB; with brothers, listed 1881 Kildonan MB census; died 22 April 1957 Vancouver BC.
3. BIRD, Ralph Ross. Born 1874; died 1874; buried 3 October 1874 St. John’s MB.
2. BIRD, Elizabeth/ Eliza Margaret. Born 4 January 1840; baptized 9 January 1840; named in father’s will of 21 March 1855; resided 1863 St. Paul’s, Red River; age 23, married 14 May 1863 St. Andrew’s, Red River.
+ GRIFFIN, Charles John. Born c. 1827 to George GRIFFIN (HBC surgeon) and an unidentified woman; Chief Trader HBC.
2. BIRD, Harriet Arabella/ Isabella. Born 6 January 1842; baptized 23 October 1843; died age 1 year; buried 23 October 1843 St. John’s, Red River.
B) David BIRD and Mary ERMANTINGER’s Family: from Orkney and Severn to Red River
1. BIRD, David/ ‘James’. Born 1792/ 1800; ‘Scotchman’; sailor ‘of’ (meaning last port of call) Kirkwall, St. Ola, Orkney; HBC servant; contracted as sailor and labourer, 1821/ 1829–1846, York Factory; married 1839/ 1841 (John Hargrave wrote 11 March 1841 to John Cromarty at Churchill Fort that he gave permission for Bird to marry Ermatinger’s daughter; Hargrave wrote 16 March 1841 to John Cromarty, “I observe what you say about David Bird having taken to wife the daughter of Mr. Ermatinger. As he is a decent man, and a good servant I can have no objection, to permit of this arrangement provided he signs the enclosed papers consisting of a promise of marriage in duplicate — one copy so signed to be given to the young woman or her mother; the other is to be forwarded to me on the first opportunity to this place. This being done you will receive her into the fort and furnish her with the customary rations to men’s wives”; at Red River Settlement by 1847?; died 1848, age 48; buried 28 November 1848 St. Andrew’s, Red River.
+ ERMATINGER, Mary. Born after 1818/ before 1825 Severn district, to Francis ‘Frank’ ERMATINGER and an unidentified Cree woman; ‘eldest daughter’; remained with mother when father relocated 1825 to the Columbia Department (he left them a stipend of some sort; he afterwards married Catherine ‘Kate’ SINCLAIR — born to William SINCLAIR II and Mary Wadin McKAY [see SINCLAIR page]); ‘raised at Oxford House’; widowed, granted lot 493, Red River (Hudson’s Bay Company Land Tenure).
2. BIRD, Robert. Born c. 1840; baptized 30 September 1848 Red River; died age 8; buried 5 October 1848 St. Andrew’s, Red River.
2. BIRD, Isabella. Born c. 1843; baptized 12 October 1848 Red River.
2. BIRD, James. Born 1847/ 28 January 1848 St. Peter’s, Red River; baptized 12 October 1848 Red River; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Peters MB census; farmer, resided 1875 St. Peters MB; resided 1876 St. Peters MB; scrip affidavit 1876; with spouse listed 1881 Battleford North West census?; scrip index.
+ FINLAYSON/ BIRD, Lisette/ Eliza. Born 1848/ 1849 to Hector/ Eclet FINLAYSON and Lisette; with spouse, listed 1870 St. Peters MB census; resided 1875 St. Peters MB; scrip affidavit 1875; with spouse listed 1881 Battleford North West census?; scrip index.
?3. BIRD, Bella. Born c. 1868; with parents listed 1881 Battleford North West census?
C) Unsorted BIRDs
1. BIRD, Baptiste.
+ Angelique. ‘Indian’.
2. BIRD, Thomas. Born c. 1800[?] Lac la Biche; “He always lived at Lac la Biche and White Fish Lake”; 1st married c. 1861; hunter, farmer; 2d married c. 1869; died of heart disease spring 1873; son’s scrip declaration 1886; scrip index.
+ Isabelle. “of Lac la Biche”; died c. 1870.
3. BIRD, Peter. Born c. 1858.
3. BIRD, Joseph. Born 1862 White Fish Lake; took treaty, Edmonton Stragglers Band; withdrew from treaty 1885; labourer, resided 1886 Edmonton [AB]; scrip declaration 1886; scrip index.
3. BIRD, Fanny. Born c. 1864.
3. BIRD, John. Born c. 1868.
3. BIRD, Betsy. Born c. 1869.
+ Bella.
BIRD, Sarah. Born c. 1801; died age 34; buried 6 September 1835 St. John’s, Red River.
BIRD, Charlotte. Born 1819 to James Curtis BIRD and Elizabeth MONTOUR?; married 15 November 1838, by banns, Middlechurch, Red River.
+ FLETT, John.
1. BIRD, John. Born c. 1824; died age 35; buried 9 March 1859 St. Andrew’s, Red River.
1. BIRD, Letitia. Born c. 1826; died age 12; buried 11 August 1838 Red River.
1. BIRD, Letitia. Born c. 1828; died age 12; buried 11 August 1840 Red River.
1. BIRD, William. married 30 December 1846 ‘The Rapids’/ St. Andrew’s, Red River.
+ COCKRAN/ COCHRANE, Sophia.
1. BIRD, James. married 26 January 1847 St. Andrew’s, Red River.
+ COCKRAN/ COCHRANE, Isabella.
1. BIRD, James.
+ Charlotte.
2. BIRD, Nancy. Born 1845 ‘on the plains’; 1st married 1860 Winnipeg, Red River; widowed; 2d informally ‘lived with’ spouse c. 1876 ‘only temporarily’; took treaty with Blackfoot Crossing Band on Bow River; withdrew from treaty c. 1885; resided 1886 Calgary [AB]; scrip declaration 1886.
+ LANG, Peter.
3. LANG, Sarah. Born c. 1861.
+ Medicine Shield. ‘Blackfoot’.
1. BIRD, Thomas.
+ Eleanor.
2. BIRD, John. baptized 18 July 1847 Red River.
1. BIRD, James. Born c. 1831; with spouse, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census.
+ Isabella. Born c. 1834; with spouse, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census.
2. BIRD, Ann. Born c. 1868; with parents, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census.
2. BIRD, Charles. Born c. 1871; with parents, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census.
2. BIRD, Frank. Born c. 1873; with parents, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census.
2. BIRD, John. Born c. 1875; with parents, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census.
2. BIRD, Alfred. Born c. 1877; with parents, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census.
2. BIRD, Bella. Born c. 1879; with parents, listed 1881 St. Andrews MB census.
1. BIRD, James.
+ Emma.
2. BIRD, Joseph. Born c. 1853 North Saskatchewan; resided Montreal Lake from c. 1859; married 1873; resided 1889 Red Deer Lake/ Prince Albert [SK]; scrip declaration 1889; scrip index.
+ COOK, Sophie.
3. BIRD, Elizabeth. Born c. 1872.
3. BIRD, Betsy. Born c. 1874.
3. BIRD, Nichol. Born after 1870; died before 1889.
1. BIRD, Mary Ann. married 20 June 1850 Upper Church/ St. John’s, Red River.
+ JOHNSTONE, James.
1. BIRD, Mary. resided St. Andrew’s, Red River; married 17 January 1855 St. Andrew’s, Red River; widowed c. 7 January 1859 (letters of administration granted).
+ BEADS, John ‘Jr.’ Born 1820/ 1824 to John BEADS ‘Sr.’ and Margaret? (see BEADS page); baptized (adult) 23 November 1838; previously 1st married 6 February 1845 Grand Rapids/ 12 November 1850 St. Andrew’s Red River, to Catherine ROBILLARD/ ROBILLIARD/ ROBELAIR/ ROBECLAIR; HBC career; assigned 1853–1854 to Dr. John RAE Arctic expedition, described as “Character very indifferent, very careless, and his veracity [not] to be much relied upon” (signed “John Rae, 1 September 1854”); received £260 as part of Government Reward for ascertaining John Franklin‘s fate; resided 1855 St. Andrew’s, Red River; 2d married 17 January 1855; died c. 7 January/ 9 March 1859.
2. BEADS, Ann ‘Nancy’.
1. BIRD, Thomas. married 1876 Touchwood Hills.
+ METASKA-NIK Isabelle. Born c. 1862 Lake Manitobah to Baptiste METASKA-NIK ‘Indian’ and Isabelle FLAMAND/ FLAMMOND; with parents resided 1870 Qu’Appelle/ Touchwood Hills; in treaty with Peace Hills Cree Band (paid 1882 with Big Bear, Cypress Hills); withdrew 1886 from treaty; resided 1886 Calgary [AB]; scrip declaration 1886; scrip index.
1. BIRD, James. Born c. 1846; with spouse, listed 1881 Lake Winnipeg MB census.
+ Mary Jane. Born c. 1851; with spouse, listed 1881 Lake Winnipeg MB census.
2. BIRD, Sarah. Born c. 1877; with parents, listed 1881 Lake Winnipeg MB census.
2. BIRD, Lucy. Born c. 1879; with parents, listed 1881 Lake Winnipeg MB census.
1. BIRD, Patrick. married 1872 Montreal Lake; resided 1889 Prince Albert [SK].
+ HENDERSON, Catherine. Born 1861 Lac la Ronge, to William HENDERSON and Catherine SINCLAIR; with parents, resided 1870 Montreal Lake; died winter 1885 Montreal Lake; husband’s scrip declaration 1889; scrip index.
2. BIRD, Jedidiah. Born c. 1880; died c. 1886.
2. BIRD, William Richard. Born c. 1882; died summer 1887.
2. BIRD, Flora. Born c. 1884; resided 1889 Prince Albert [SK].
2. BIRD, [Unnamed]. died unbaptized 1885 6 days old.
2. BIRD, Jeremiah. Born c. 1885; resided 1889 Prince Albert [SK].
1. BIRD, Thomas. Born c. 1849 Plain River Rocky Mountains; 1st married autumn 1865 Fort Ellice (by Rev. Thomas COOK); resided 1870 Big Lake, near Edmonton [AB]; widowed 1870; 2d married 1871; widowed 1875; 3d married 1875 Qu’Appelle; resided 1886 Calgary [AB].
+ McKAY, Ann/ Anne. Born c. 1847 Fort Ellice, to William McKAY and an unidentified woman; resided Fort Ellice to 1865; died of smallpox autumn 1870 near Edmonton [AB]; husband’s scrip claim 1886; scrip index.
2. BIRD, Ann ‘Annie’. Born 1867 Fort Ellice; died of smallpox autumn 1870 near Edmonton [AB]; father’s scrip declaration 1886; scrip index.
2. BIRD, Abraham. Born spring 1868 near Edmonton; died of smallpox autumn 1870 near Edmonton [AB]; father’s scrip declaration 1886; scrip index.
+ Ann ‘Annie’. previously married to Baptiste GABRIEL; widowed; 2d married 1871; died 1875.
2. BIRD, Madeleine. Born c. 1873 near Edmonton; died in infancy near Edmonton.
2. BIRD, Anne ‘Nancy’. Born c. 1875 near Edmonton; died in infancy near Edmonton.
+ FLAMMAND, Isabelle.
1. BIRD, Benjamin. resided 1889 Prince Albert [SK].
+ CHARLES, Mary.
2. BIRD, Emma. Born 1868 Lac la Ronge; died December 1886 Montreal Lake; father’s scrip declaration 1889; scrip index.
1. BIRD, Charles. married 1862 Qu’Appelle.
+ SANDESON, Caroline. Born 1841 St. Andrew’s, Red River, to George SANDERSON ‘Sr.’ and Nancy WHITFORD [see WHITFORD and LAGIMONIÈRE pages]; afterwards 2d married 1873 Qu’Appelle, to Baptiste PELLETIER; resided 1886 Qu’Appelle; scrip declaration 1886.
2. BIRD, George. Born c. 1864 Qu’Appelle [SK].
2. BIRD, William. Born c. 1866; died 1881.
2. BIRD, Mary Ann. Born c. 1868 Qu’Appelle [SK].
1. BIRD.
+ COURTIER/ MUS TAS COW ISH, ‘Isabella’. Born to Mus tas cow ich COURTIER and an unidentified woman; died c. 1874 “killed in a Cyclone at [Trawling?] Lake”; sister or sister-in-law to Philomene Madeline HEBERT; and sister or sister-in-law to Caroline married to Louison DESJARLAIS.
2. BIRD, Thomas. Born c. 1874 Cypress Hills; age 10, c. 1884, given by father to Benjamin McKENZIE of Red Deer [AB]; resided 1900 Buffalo Lake; scrip claim 1900.
1. BIRD, William. “descendant of Antoine Chatelain”; died before 1886.
+ Emma. ‘Indian woman’
2. BIRD, Margaret. Born August 1869; resided “Along the north shore of the Saskatchewan between Carlton & Fort a la Corne”; resided 1870 Carlton; took treaty, Mistawasis, Snake Plains Band; married c. 1885 Snake Plain; withdrew from treaty 1886; resided 1886 Prince Albert [SK]; scrip declaration 1886.
+ FRASER, James.
1. BIRD, Samuel. described as maybe ‘Indian’; resided 1885 Montreal Lake.
+ CHARLES/ PARISIEN, Bethsy. resided 1885 Montreal Lake.
2. BIRD, Martha. Born 1867 Montreal Lake; married January 1884 Fort a la Corne; resided 1885 Fort a la Corne; scrip declaration 1885.
+ HUMPHREYVILLE, Jeremiah.
3. HUMPHREYVILLE, Zachias. Born c. 1885.
2. BIRD, Susanna. Born June 1869 south end, Lac la Ronge; resided Montreal Lake; resided from 1883 Red Deer Lake; married June 1887 Prince Albert [SK]; resided 1889 Prince Albert [SK]; scrip declaration 1889; scrip index.
+ NELSON, John Charles.
3. NELSON, Richard James. Born 20 May 1888 Red Deer Lake.
1. BIRD, Nancy.
+ ROBERTSON, George.
2. ROBERTSON, Mary Ann. Born 23 November 1881 Prince Albert [SK]; resided 1900 Prince Albert [SK]; scrip claim 1900.
1. BIRD, Ellen.
+ McKENZIE dit LARIVIERE, Adam ‘O-osis’. hunter, resided 1867 English River; resided 1889 HBC Cumberland.
2. McKENZIE, Daniel. Born 1867 Lac la Ronge; resided 1867 English River; baptized 29 December 1867; resided 1872 Stanley Mission; died 1872 east of Lac la Ronge; buried 19 June 1872, age 4; father’s scrip declaration 1889.
1. BIRD, Henry.
+ HALCROW, Jemima. Born July 1857 ‘St. Paul’, Red River, to Joseph HALCROW and Sophia COOK; resided 1876 High Bluff MB; scrip affidavit 1876.
1. BIRD, Joseph. married September 1889 Fort Chipewyan.
+ FAVEL/ FAVELLE/ FLAVELLE, Sophie. Born c. 1857 Fort Chipewyan, to James FAVELLE/ FLAVELLE and Angelique KI-SOP-WE-WE-YITAM; ‘illegitimate’; baptized 1 July 1872, age 15; resided 1899 Fort Chipewyan; scrip declaration 1899; scrip index.
2. BIRD, Christine. Born 1890 Fort Chipewyan; died 1893 Fort Chipewyan.
2. BIRD, Willie/ Welley. Born 1891 Edmonton; baptized 7 August 1899.
2. BIRD, Charles. Born 7 July 1898 Fort Chipewyan; baptized 7 August 1899.
1. BIRD, John Edward.
+ HALCROW, Mary Catherine. Born 26 February 1880 to Henry HALCROW and Mary Matilda HODGSON; resided 1900 Halcro, South Branch [SK]; scrip claim 1900.
1. BIRD.
+ CARDINAL, Katy. Born c. 1882 Las la Biche to Julien CARDINAL and Liza LADOUCEUR; scrip index.
Bird, William (HBC servant 1847–1850)
Bird, William (a) (HBC servant 1861–1883)
Kih-chip-i-nas/ ‘The Great Bird.’ Resided 1851 Portage la Prairie.
Mothers of the Resistance 1869–1870 
Hello,
Does anyone know more about William Bird’s daughter Isabella (Baptized 26 July 1835)?
My great grandmother (born Isabel Bird) was from Red River area before she married E.R. Hutchinson and raised 18 children in what is now Clay County Minnesota. Are they one and the same?
I am far away in NY State and have never been to Manitoba so any insight would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
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Hello, I’m trying to track dow Mary Jane Brown -Maiden Name -STRANNIGAN parents.
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