A Well-Documented History
of the GIRD Family Tree
Roots and Branches...Twigs and Boughs
An ancient British Family

Introduction
Most GIRDS I have found had been PIONEERS in whatever country they lived.  Indeed, many of them were LAND BARONS and amassed large tracts of land, raising fine horses and cattle. They were EDUCATORS, or were involved in anything that encouraged education and civic improvement of their community, wherever they lived.  I've found many who were POLITICIANS, serving their community in political positions...from the ENGLISH PARLIAMENT to US CONGRESSMEN. They were always leaders in innovation and progressive minded.  Several were NEWSPAPER JOURNALISTS in addition to being RANCHERS or DIRT FARMERS. They raised crops and found ways to become wealthy while contributing to their community. GIRDS have been SOLDIERS or SAILORS, WIGMAKERS and  MERCHANTS.  From a King's SADDLE MAKER to a colonial SURGEON, as well as SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE. From the many stories, letters, documents and materials I have collected over the years, it appears that the GIRD family were very much connected with the SEA for many generations.  I have found Girds who were ADVENTURERS - SEA MERCHANTS or "privateers",  sailing the seas in ships with billowing sails.  Later in Virginia, there were the more trim-line Schooners, making trips to Great Britain, Europe, and even the Mediterranean. They frequented the ports in the West Indies. There were Girds who were CAPTAINS or PILOTS of the new & dangerous Steam-powered paddleboats in the early 19th century on American rivers, including the mighty Mississippi River.  Many of these early SEAFARING GIRDS actively took part in maritime battles in defense of their country.  Some lost their lives in sea-going adventures, and were buried in watery graves.

GIRD FAMILY BIOGRAPHIES  - For a good foundation into the various stories about the GIRD family and their coming to America, I suggest you read these first, and then proceed on to the other subjects. You may want to refer back to them from time to time, as well. Although they may not be entirely accurate, they ALL contain elements of the real story of the GIRD FAMILY.

U.S.A. Branches of the IRISH GIRD Family

 All Families who share my GIRD lineage or are related in some other way will be included in each record, as I have information & time available. Pedigree charts & family group records of my GIRD Families, and many other ancestors & relatives can be seen at Annie's Webs, my SEARCHABLE SURNAME INDEX posted with RootsWeb's WorldConnect. Files are also DOWNLOADABLE.

© My Irish Branch
of the GIRD Family

  Includes - Gird, Hinds, Frankland, Hatton, Lahee families
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   IRISH CHRISTMAS
plus Irish Christmas Customs, Legends, and Stories.

 The Soldier's Song - Lyrics of the Irish National Song

The Wexford GIRDS

Henry & Mary (HIND) GIRD (documented)

NEW!!!

The Old WEXFORD BRIDGE - Soon to be posted
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An old book found in a Wexford Public library this past summer, gives us with a little glimpse of our ancestor, Henry Gird Sr., of Wexford, Ireland.

"By the Laws having been made and agreed on, in June, 1794, the Wooden Bridge was begun...and finished by Cox, in 1795." at a cost of £15,000. (approx £1m today) - from the Griffiths Chronicles, pp 259 - 264. (- documented)

 
COMING to AMERICA

 All the Gird Biographies contain elements of the true story about WHO the GIRDS were, WHERE they originated and WHEN, and HOW they came to be in America. They all seem to have a story about WHERE the GIRD family first settled after they came to America.
There is a tradition that Henry Gird Sr. had but three sons.  Of course we now know that he had many sons and many daughters too, but the story goes that  "one son married to his father's displeasure, and was disinherited." He went west.  One Biography states that descendants of this Gird were living in Colorado in the late 19th century. Three of the daughters of Henry & Mary Hind-Gird, Eliza, Emily, and Maria, never married. They lived to a good old age in New York City. To them went the household things when their father, Henry GIRD Sr. died."  There is supposedly a Gird Will still in existence, but I do not have a copy of it. The stories go on to say that "Of the others, little is known, except of Henry H Gird II.

All the Gird stories state that the family came to America about the time of the Irish Rebellion (1793-1809, inclusive), and bought land with the intention of growing wheat for export. Each GIRD Biography tells us that the wheat crops failed and the mills & starch factories in Alexandria were burned by the British in the War of 1812 and that Henry Hatton Gird II went to NYC and became a publisher.

But it is curious to note that each GIRD Biography gives us a slightly different tale as to where the Family first settled. Each GIRD Biography claims it was in a different place. One story has it that Henry GIRD Sr  purchased a huge tract of land from George Washington.  Two accounts claim the Girds bought "a plantation" at a place called Stony Creek "near Winchester" where they engaged in "raising wheat", but it did not give any specific location. Another says they lived near Arrington, Virginia, and another tells it was Arlington, Maryland.  Still another has it that they bought land in Warrenton, southwest of Fairfax county.  Most of the accounts state that the Girds actually 'lived' in Alexandria, but owned farm land elsewhere. One accounts stats that a descendant still lived on and owned part of the original family property as late as the 1950s. Henry Gird SR. is said to have had the plan of raising wheat for export, and it was said that he bought a plantation from George Washington, but he and his family lived mostly in Alexandria, District of Columbia, where " he and his son John erected flour mills" in Alexandria, Virginia. "The younger children were sent to the Episcopal Church in Washington, DC".

This may seem like a lot of conflicting stories to the casual reader,  full of gross exaggeration, and legends and of little or no historical value, but for me, it said something else! It told me that perhaps these were the various places where the FIFTEEN children of HENRY & MARY HIND- GIRD went after coming to America!  Each one lived in a different place. That is why they lost contact and no one knew what became of them. The only ones who stayed close were the families in Alexandria, Virginia and New York county & Herkimer county GIRD families for reasons which I will later disclose. And so I began to search these places for them, turning every stone for any sign, no matter how small.

Of the FIFTEEN IRISH-BORN Children of Henry & Mary GIRD, this is what I have found to date:

Although most of the family may have started out in Alexandria, Fairfax county, Va. ca. 1793, I found through various records of  the children of Henry and Mary Hind-Gird, who formed the various branches of our AMERICAN GIRD FAMILY, that each bought land and settled in all of the different areas mentioned in the various Gird Biographies. Seems like such a simple conclusion to make now doesn't it, but it had GIRD researchers baffled for many years!

Harriet GIRD and her husband, Walter CLARK, went to Winchester, Berkeley county, had at least three children and perhaps lived out their lives there, among his CLARK relatives.  The family of Eleanor "Ellen" GIRD, the FRANKLAND family, after returning to America from Ireland in 1799, removed to live in Warrenton, south of Alexandria - some of them lived in D.C. and Maryland;  Joseph Christopher GIRD and his wife, Eudocia DORSEY, lived in Alexandria, as did older brother, John GIRD and his wife, Sarah KENNEDY, and sister Mary GIRD and her husband, John WHITE.  Some of them lived for a time in Falls Church, Fairfax county, (where the Episcopal church was located...now a suburb of Alexandria). Edward GIRD (and perhaps brothers George GIRD & William Fredric "Willy" GIRD) may have lived for a time in Strasburg, Shenandoah county, Virginia, near stony Creek, just south of Winchester, but he is later known to have gone to Kentucky around 1810, as Land Purchase Records seem to confirm and married Sarah BEALER-ORR, a widow from Alexandria, Virginia. Unconfirmed is that Christopher GIRD and/or another brother, may have removed to Pennsylvania to live. I do not know what became of Christian GIRD, another sister, known as "Christy". I do not know what became of  Isabelle GIRD, mentioned in nearly every Gird Biography. I have no records of her to date. The three maiden sisters, Elizabeth "Eliza" GIRD,  Margaret Maria "Maria" GIRD & Amelia "Emily" GIRD removed to NYC about the same time that Henry Gird Jr did, but a firm date has not been disclosed, nor do I know who removed there first. However, I did obtain the marriage record for Henry GIRD and Mary Smith-Crane. From a letter of congratulations to Henry from his cousin Margaret Maria LAHEE in Wexford, Ireland, regarding his "recent marriage", it certainly verifies that he was living in NYC by 1801.

And so we may now see more clearly from these new found facts and the proud Family Heritage we have maintained through more than two hundred years through the "GIRD Family Legends",  the story of Our Coming to America.

CHILDREN of HENRY & MARY HIND-GIRD

~ The Next Generation ~ the American Girds

NEW information Coming Soon!

© Henry GIRD Jr.

aka - Henry Hatton Gird II [1774-1812]

Henry Hatton GIRD ( II )   (documented)

 

 

                        

Henry Hatton GIRD III, a son of H. H. GIRD, II

Henry Hatton Gird (III) (documented)

Graduate of West Point Military Academy
Military Career (1818-1827)
Military Surveyor & supervisor in the Fortification of Ft. Pike & Ft Jackson in Louisiana (1820s)

 

2nd President of the College Louisiana - (1829 - 1833) (documented)

 

U. S. Mint in New Orleans - 1844

 

                        

Henry Harrison GIRD, a son of H. H. Gird III
The Pioneer Gird - Rancher / Farmer (documented)

 

                        

 

    Eleanor "Ellen" GIRD was the first-born child of Henry & Mary Hind-Gird of Wexford, Ireland

Ellen GIRD-FRANKLAND (documented)
The FRANKLAND - GIRD  BIOGRAPHY and Family Info

                              

 

LETTER from George Washington 1798 (documented)

Update:Saturday January 24, 2004

Tradition has it that the GIRDS bought a Large tract of land from George Washington and went about growing wheat and building grist mills. Here is what I found in the Library of Congress records that validates that old family legend.

 

 The Virginia WHEAT VENTURE ...and the story of its FAILURE 

The GIRD story & the historical documentation about the record droughts and insect epidemic in America that caused the crops in Virginia to fail, as recorded in the various GIRD biographies. (documented)

VIRGINIA MARRIAGE RECORDS for GIRD

• John GIRD, married Sarah KENNEDY in 1810, "Uncle John & Aunt Sally", Alexandria, Va., later residing in Washington County, VA, District of Columbia, named as one of the "viceroy" of Christ's Church in the Alexandria (DC) ; the afore mentioned brother of Henry Hatton Gird II
• Joseph Christopher GIRD, married Eudocia DORSEY in 1815, Washington County, VA., District of Columbia - Mrs. Eudocia (Dorsey) GIRD, afterwards, married Samuel HILLS, 06 Feb., 1823, Ohio.
• Harriet GIRD, married Walter CLARK, 23 Oct., 1804, Berkeley County, VA.
• Mary GIRD married John WHITE, 01 Dec., 1795, Fairfax County, VA.

 

John GIRD  was a  son of Henry & Mary (Hind) Gird, who came to Virginia with his sister Ellen & here husband Thomas Edward FRANKLAND  in 1793,  along with Henry Hatton Gird II (JR). He is said to have returned to Ireland at a later time to get "Family matters settled, and to fetch their little sister, Isabelle".  Perhaps if Henry & Mary Gird died in 1809, this would have been what the family story refers to by "Family matters"  and going back to Ireland to get the younger children who were still small children. Their brother-in-law, Thomas FRANKLAND and their sister Ellen GIRD-FRANKLAND had gone back to Ireland for some reason in 1798, but in 1799 Ellen died.  Thomas took their three children and returned to Alexandria, Virginia.  I wonder if they might have fallen victim to the plague that was so bad at that time? Perhaps they might even have been among the Protestant Gentry of Wexford who were attacked and killed in the days of the Rebellion.

 JOHN GIRD, brother of Henry Hatton Gird II, married SARAH KENNEDY, dau. of John KENNEDY, in 1810 in Alexandria, Fairfax, County, Va. In the 1830 Federal Census, John Gird is shown as a resident in that city. He was a prominent member of Christ's Church in Alexandria, which is an Episcopal Church and served on the Board for years, as recorded in Church Records. Indeed, he was among those who signed a petition to form the newer St. Paul's Church from members of Christ's Church Congregation. It is seen historically as a very heated dispute at that time.  (documented)

He apparently owned several ships and engaged in some type of seafaring business. He is known to have owned at least one sailing Schooner and later a ferry Steamboat and was called upon in the War of 1812 to assist in the war. From family letters he apparently employed several of his brothers in his business and they each were given positions to captain one of John's ships.  

More information about "Uncle John & Aunt Sally" is revealed in family letters about the death of Joseph Christopher GIRD and about the death of Sarah's father, John Kennedy.

 

Much needs to be researched about John's family. Am in the process of building his web pages.

 

INFORMATION!

JOHN KENNEDY & his Apothecary, of Alexandria, Fairfax county, Virginia . To be added soon!

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Probate Court Record regarding the settling of an Estate.

JOSEPH CHRISTOPHER GIRD

 

JOSEPH CHRISTOPHER GIRD had come to Alexandria, Virginia to live at an unknown date, but before 1814. Family letters tell of his marriage, but only gives her first name -"Eudocia".  A marriage record, dated, 22 Jul, 1815, in Washington County, District of Columbia, showed Joseph had married Eudocia DORSEY. The Probate record, Dist. of Columbia, Alexandria Co., 13 Mar., 1820, was concerned with the heirs of the late Captain Richard Dorsey of the State of Maryland, who had died in 1799, a former Revolutionary War hero.  It was action being taken over the 2,000 acres of land left to his four heirs, one of whom was the former Eudocia Dorsey, now living in Ohio, the widow of the late Joseph C. Gird. So it seems they had only been married less than five years before Joseph died. It is not known if he left any children. Eudocia remarried after Joseph C. Gird died.

Captain Dorsey was a Revolutionary war hero from Maryland. There are many, many of the DORSEY family found on Maryland and Virginia, related to this same family.

(documented)

All this new and intriguing information will be discussed in more detail through this record, and undoubtedly will be more fully investigated as time allows.

Harriet GIRD (documented)

1810 Census, Berkeley county, Virginia
CLARK, Walter
Living in the Household;
1 male, age 10 yrs or under;

1 male, age 25 yrs to 45 yrs (Walter Clark);
2 females, age 10yrs or younger;

1 female, age 25 yrs to 45 yrs (Harriet GIRD-Clark)
 

Mary GIRD  (documented)

Marriage Records from "Virginia Marriages to 1800":
Virginia, Fairfax County:

Gird, Mary married, White, John (sic),  on 01 Dec 1795, in Fairfax County, Virginia
Virginia, Fairfax County

 

Burials: James Oliver WHITE, son of James (see John above) and Mary WHITE, died Oct. 15, 1830, aged 9 mos & 9
dys.. Buried at Hough Cemetery, near Shelbyville, Shelby county, Indiana. (documented)

More Coming Soon about these extraordinary Women

The AUNTS: Elizabeth, Amelia, & M. Maria GIRD
These were the three daughters of Henry & Mary (Hind) Gird who never married, and to whom much was owed in this family, then and now.

 

Centre & Broad Street, Manhattan Island, NYC, NY., NY

GIRD FAMILY Biographies all seem to attribute to Henry Hatton Gird II with owning a newspaper and printing business in NYC, the partnership known as "Gird and Stanbury."  although I have not disproved this story, in letters written by Richard Smith Gird (I), son of Henry Hatton Gird (II), he writes to family about the Newspaper where he works and states that they have decided to call it  "Gird and Shields Publishing Co.". Henry married Mrs. Mary "Maria" (SMITH) CRANE on July, 02, 1800, at the Reformed Dutch Church, NY. They took up residence at 20 Roosevelt St., NYC, on lower Manhattan Island, not far from Henry's maiden sisters.

 

Henry's maiden sisters, Eliza, Emily & Maria GIRD, "The Aunts", were mentioned as having lived in New York, but no one knew where. Again, in old letters written by Eliza GIRD, she states that they owned and operated a Bread BAKERY at No. 62 Broad Street. They resided in the adjoining flat upstairs, from around 1800 until their deaths.  Baked goods were made daily and sold bread to the ships that came in to port at the Battery of Lower Manhattan.  They apparently hired the younger members of the family to work in the bakery from time to time.

The Gird family also owned and operated  "The Central Clothing Store" situated at the corner of Centre & Broad streets, across from the Central Plaza.  According to Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory
[Publisher: D. Longworth; Publication Information: NY, NY, 1815], Aunt Eliza Gird was a Milliner, creating & making Ladies Fashionable Hats.

Henry H. Gird Jr. thought that this location on lower Manhattan Island would some day be a booming center of trade and commerce....he were right!

 

According to GIRD Biographies, Henry GIRD died suddenly and without warning from a heart attack, leaving a wife and 6 children, the family biographies dated it around 1805. However, I found Henry on the 1810 Census in NYC, NY., NY. 
Thanks to the work of Barbara Diemer, new information  reveals the exact date of death for our Henry Hatton Gird I, editor/publisher/abolitionist.

 Source: New York Post - Death Notice of Henry Gird JR.:
14 Mar 1812 died "this morning Henry Gird, 38, 20 Roosevelt St."

I do not know where he was buried. (documented) 

 

From the old letters written by Aunt Eliza and Aunt Emily Gird, I learned that the sisters had purchased plots in the New Greenwood Cemetery in  NY, NY.

FOUND: Burials of "The Aunts" at Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

They were old-fashioned in some ways, but daring and modern for the times in many ways.

More to be revealed about "The Aunts". (documented) 

 

 

 

 

EDWARD GIRD - (documented) 
- from a Richardson county, Nebraska biography, family records discovered from direct descendants and from the Indiana Congressional biographies, among other resources, comes part of his Story.

Cemetery Burial List

Updated April 11, 2002

 

 Uploaded: January 18th, 2002

The Pennsylvania GIRD   The Descendants of JAMES GIRD 
 ~ Another GIRD who went West! (documented) 

One Gird Biography has it that the Gird family came into America at the port in Philadelphia, PA. Perhaps some of them did.

 

 

 

NEW - HATTON family of Wexford, Ireland 
by David A Crerar of Vancouver 

 

Ties in Virginia???
                  See Hatton Coat of Arms - also posted below

 
 

 

My Gird Family's Westward Migration:

New York -> Louisiana -> Illinois -> California   

Gird Families of the American Frontier (1827-1883)

Henry Hatton GIRD III   (documented) 
Includes Descendants of

• Henry Hatton GIRD II & Mary SMITH
• Henry Hatton GIRD III & Sarah Ann KINSLEY #1wife / Elizabeth WHEELER #2 wife
• Henry Harrison GIRD & Martha Stites LEWIS

Military Records / Census records / Bible entries / Biographies / Obits / and more.

 

KINSLEY LANDS that became part of West Point Military Lands (documented) 

The KINSLEY MONUMENT at West Point Military Cemetery

...and why the our family story has it that it was " GIRD Land ".

 

Could there be any real substance to the ANCIENT Tales of Nobility?          

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Gird page Click Here  to go there, now! 

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Hynes page Click Here  to go there, now!  

HATTON Coat of Arms
by Annie © 2002
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A GIRD Family of England (documented) 
- were they a Branch off the Irish Family or part of our English Gird Roots?

Recently, in Spring of 2000, efforts began to be made to connect the Gird families in England with the Wexford, Ireland family, as it is most likely the same family. Another HENRY GIRD born in Wexford, Ireland in 1770, a contemporary of our ancestor, and removed to England. He was the Saddle Maker for King George II, of England. By 1824 this Henry Gird removed to Whitehaven, Cumberland, England, where he is appointed to the position of Permit Writer for H. M.. Customs Service, and retires in 1843 with a yearly allowance of 85 pounds.

From there, Girds can be traced to South Africa and as far away as New Zealand and Australia, but all descending from Henry & Mary (Sallaway) Gird of Cumberland, England. Most of the given names found in the immediate families of our Gird family of Wexford, Ireland, are also 'given' names of the children of Henry & Mary Gird of England.  Also, something particularly interesting  is the presence of the LAHEE surname used as a given name for one of Henry & Mary Gird's children. I saw it as a definite "Bookmark" that they were relatives of my Irish Gird Family & their 1st cousins, the LAHEE Family.

Were  these GIRDS a branch of the WEXFORD GIRD Families, or were they part of the larger English GIRD ROOTS?

Finally! I've got a page built

A GIRD Family of ENGLAND (documented) 

 

The Colonial GIRD Family of  Cape Town, South Africa
~ a Branch of the English GIRD Family ~ ...forthcoming!

The Girds of Cape Town, South Africa  (documented) 

BOTH of these English-rooted GIRD FAMILIES have WONDERFUL stories to share as well, and I hope to get them posted as soon as can be. Sorry to be so long at getting to them, but they will be well worth the wait!!!

1. Wexford Church Records
2. Collectives of family stories and biographies
3. Census
4. Business directory
5. Old Gird family letters dated from 1790-1830 (and addresses on the envelopes)
6. Alexandria, VA. Church records
7. Historical Accounts, Ireland
8. EAST India Company Hist. records
9. Various Family records
10. Newspaper articles and obituaries
11. Biographical records from South Africa
12. Marriage records
13. Frankland Bible entries
14. Historical records about Alexandria, VA.
15. History of the Irish Rebellion
16. USA Atlas; Historical Maps of the various locations
17. Old Irish Publication subscriptions found at Ancestry. com
18. Historical records in States & Territories of the 19th century USA
19. Biographical Directory of the Indiana General Assemble State of Indiana
20. Cemetery records & gravestones
21. Indiana Congressional records
22. Old books and Publications
23. Obits found in Ireland, England, South Africa. & USA
    ...snippets and bits and pieces of this and that from around the World!
    OTHER SOURCES:

    Books: 

    Notes: Database Listing: American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
    Surname / Given Name(s) / Maiden Name / Birth Date / Birth Place / Biographical Info Reference
     

    MARCY, Gird,  "History of Douglas, MA." by Will. A. Emerson. Boston, 1879. (359p.):258
    GIRD Adeline Augusta (Alden), b. 1842 "Memorial of the des. of John Alden". by Eben. Alden. Randolph, MA, 1867. (164p.):108
    [CORRECTION: wife of Joseph W. GIRD, son of Henry Hatton Gird III, by his second wife, Eliz. Wheeler - t.a.d. 2002]
    GIRD Eudocia,  "Anne Arundel county, MD. gentry and des." By Harry Wright Newman. Baltimore, 1933. (13,668p.):92

    [wife of Joseph C. GIRD - t.a.d 2002]

    GIRD Henry Hatton , b. 181? "Massachusetts Genealogical and encyclopedic Hist. Of the Wheeler fam. In America." by Albert Gallatins Wheeler. Boston. 1914. (18,1257p.):364

    [CORRECTION: Henry Hatton GIRD (III), b. 1801, NYC, NY married 2ndly, to Elizabeth WHEELER of Mass. - t.a.d. 2002]
    GIRD James W., b. 18?, Massachusetts, Capt.. "Memorial of the des. of John Alden". by Eben. Alden. Randolph, MA., 1867. (164p.):108
    [CORRECTION: should read: Joseph Wheeler GIRD, b. 1839 - he was a son of Henry Hatton Gird III, by his second wife, Eliz. Wheeler - t.a.d 2002]
    GIRD Joseph,  "Anne Arundel county,  MD. gentry and des." By Harry Wright Newman. Baltimore, 1933. (13,668p.):92
    [son of Henry & Mary HIND-GIRD, born Wexford, Ireland - t.a.d. 2002]

     

               Other SOURCES:

    1.    Detailed Letters written by Richard Smith GIRD (I) to his mother, Mrs. Mary or "Maria" Smith-Crane-Gird, and his sister,  

           Mrs. Amanda Crane-Mervine, and the "Aunts".

    2.    Letters written by Mrs. Mary or "Maria" Smith-Crane-Gird

    3.    Detailed Letters written by Aunt Emily, and Aunt Eliza Gird, often referred to in the family as "The Aunts", dating from 1810 

           until their deaths.

    4.    Letters written by Mrs. Amanda Crane-Mervine & her husband, William Mervine

    5.    Letter written by William King

    6.    NEW YORK Census (1790-1890): 1810, GIRD, Henry, NY County, NY, p. 087, NY City shown as (30010-11010),

            Fed. Population Census, [ ID# NYS1a1260022 ]

    6.    Census Records for NYC -  / 1830 / 1840 / 1850

    7.    The Mechanics Bank of NYC,  Library of Congress

    8.    Hist of the Erie Canal, American Heritage Junior Collection, publ. 1963 1st edit.

    9.    (CMAG 31 Mar, 98 - 1796 & 1798); Colonial Virginia Source Records, 1600s-1700s
           Abstracts from 18th-Century Virginia Newspapers, Surnames C-D, Page 107;
            © MyFamily.com, Inc., May 20, 2003

    10.  Greenwood Cemetery Burial records, Brooklyn, NY.

    11.  NY Post Obits - From Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory
            [Publisher: D. Longworth; Publication Information: NY, NY, 1815.

    12.   Arlington County, Virginia,  Book of Wills / Resource: LDS Family Resource Library

             cit.  Henry Gird Sr's Last Will & Testament, dated 1805

    13.   American Eighteenth-Century Newspapers in the Library of Congress: VIRGINIA,  ALEXANDRIA.

    14.   Washington, DC. 1830 Census - Found: John Gird,  Alexandria Co. at town of Alexandria, p. 231

    15.    U.K. & U.S. Directories & Lists, 1680-1830

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Although many people have contributed over the years to all the information I have been able to gather about these families, doubtless I could ever list everyone who has been a part of it. I would have to include the priests, clerks and others who kept the records, people on the Internet for their sacrifice of time, expense, and efforts, my Web Page Host RootsWeb. com, Ancestry.com., Genealogy.com., and the LDS Genealogical Library, and so many others of whom I have no knowledge. I could not forget the many cousins who have contributed small but vital amounts of stories and records, and the Historians for so many contributions through there divers works. It could get mind-boggling if you considered your electric company, the US mail, your Government agencies, the archivists, cemetery sextons, local & university libraries, Computer companies, paper & ink companies, book publishing companies & printers, photo labs & the chemists who...well...you can see what I mean? We are aided in our research in so many ways, and doubtless we could imagine how many people who have been "angels unawares". So, to ALL OF YOU, I thank you and God Bless you!

My Very Special thanks go to: My Ancestors and all who came before me, who kept records, and saved receipts; who wrote down the family stories & kept old family letters and photos and books of remembrances.

My Mom, my Grannie, my Great grandparents, my Aunts, all my immediate family; To my cousins: Richard Kinsley Gird, John Gird & dau. Ellen (Gird) Knapp, Diane K. Meyers, J. M. Mervine, Elaine (Gird) Van Reenen, Frank Wattleworth, Barbara Diemer, Bev & Otis Sizemore, Tom Meyers, Rose Guertin, Ashby Hoy, Stephen H. Burt, Tom Martin, Mary Lambie, Susan Ratcliff, Annora Renoe, and friends I have made who have contributed family information and documents to this work....for your many contributions and research, representing a collective effort of the various affiliated families in these Gird Family records.

...and to my John Scott Stueber, for making all this recent work possible for me do.

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