Edward Wheler Bird

  General Notes:

East-India Register and Army List.
1842 - Fifth Class
Edward Wheler Bird, assistant to collector and magistrate, and agent to Governor, Vizagapatam.
Civil Servants - 1842
Edward Wheler Bird, assistant judge, Combaconum.

The Jews and the expansion of Europe to the West, 1450 to 1800, by Paola Bernardina, Norman Fiering
Edward Wheeler Bird a retired Anglo-Indian judge founded the British Israelite Movement

Edward was born in the East Indies, in 1823, the son of a well known provincial judge. Bird passed his exams in England at the age of nineteen, and entered the Indian Civil Service, retiring to Bristol in 1868 from a senior position. In England he quickly became involved in various evangelical activities, including the Society for promoting Christianity, Amongst the Jews, the Bible Society, and others. In 1874 he chanced upon one of John Wilson's books and became an enthusiastic supporter of British Israelism becoming chairman of the Bristol and Clifton Anglo-Israel Association in April 1875.

Edward Wheler Bird, using the pseudonym Philo-Israel, in his monthly Banner of Israel, published in London from 1877. ...

1881 (UK) Census, Entry for Woodcot Villa, Wesbury on Trym, Gloucs.,England.
Household:
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Age Birthplace Occupation Disability
Edward Wheler BIRD Head M Male 57 B S, East Indies
Editor Of Banner Of Israel
Catherine BIRD Wife M Female 57 Honiton, Devon, England
Georgiana Victoria J. BIRD Daur U Female 30 East Indies
Catherine Charlotte BIRD Daur U Female 23 East Indies
Arthur Wilberforce BIRD Son U Male 16 East Indies Scholar
Agnes PEARCE Serv U Female 31 Beachley, Gloucester, England Domestic Servant (Cook)
Amelia POPLE Serv U Female 29 Bristol, Gloucester, England Domestic Servant (Parlour Md)
Elizabeth Ann JAMES Serv U Female 30 Bristol Domestic Servant (House Md)

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Judge.

• connection. My connection to Julie Otto is as follows:
Julie Otto . . .
Her Great Uncle was . . .
Vivien Gwyn-Thomas (1905)
His father was Gwyn Thomas (1871) who married Alice Shackel (who died in 1920) who also married Arthur Bird (1865)
His father was Edward Bird (1824) who married Catherine Groube (c1824)
Her father was Thomas Groube (1774) & he also had Horatio Groube (1814)
He had George Groube (1847)
He had Edith Groube (1880) who married Percy Howe (1866)
His father was Robert Howe (1833)
His father was Frederick Howe (1805)
His father was James Howe (1777)
His father was George Howe (1741) & he also had Sarah Howe (1775)
She had Alexander Moss (1811)
She had James Moss (1846)
He had Laura Kershaw Waldock or Moss (1864)
She had Winthrop Larkinson (1889)
He had Dulcie Larkinson (1926) who married Colin Davies (1925)
She had me- Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Edward married Catherine Groube, daughter of Thomas Groube and Anna Marie Dodson. (Catherine Groube was born about 1824 in Honiton On Otter, Devon England and was christened on 9 Jul 1824 in Honiton On Otter, Devon England.)