Ancestry of
Meghan Markle

Duchess of Sussex, TV Actress

Mary Bird

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Meghan Markle — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 23 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Bird 
  • Mother:
  • Mary -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT Mar 1862 
  • Birth Location:
  • Isle of Malta 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Jun 1925 
  • Death Location:
  • Laconia, Belknap, New Hampshire 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • George David Merrill
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Feb 1883 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Meredith, Belknap, New Hampshire 
  • Child:

  Gertrude May Merrill (Ahnentafel No:11 )

• Sources for Mary Bird

  • ¹ Federal Census, NH, Belknap County, 1900, Laconia, E.D. 9, Sheet 11B, Image 21 of 43.
  • ² New Hampshire Marriages, 1720-1920, Marriage record for George Merrill and Mary Bird.
  • ³ New Hampshire, U.S., Death and Disinterment Records, 1754-1947, Death record for Mary Merrill.
  • ⁴ New Hampshire, U.S., Death and Disinterment Records, 1754-1947, Death record for daughter Gertrude Merrill Sanders.
  • ⁵ New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage and Divorce Records, 1659-1947, Marriage record for Fred G Sanders and daughter Gertrude M Merrill.
  • ⁶ New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage Records Index, 1637-1947, Marriage record for George Merrill and Mary Bird.
  • ⁷ Joseph, Claudia, "Revealed: Meghan Markle's Ancestor was a 'Royal Maid' at Windsor Castle", DailyMail.com, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4913756/Meghan-Markle-s-ancestor-royal-maid-Windsor.html, (accessed 11/03/2017).
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd and Christopher C. Child, "The Shared Ancestry of (Rachel) Meghan Markle and Prince Harry of Wales", (accessed 11/30/2017).