Born about in Red River Settlement
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Daughter of James Curtis Bird Sr.
and Elizabeth (Montour) Bird
Sister of
Margaret (Bird) Hourie [half], George Bird [half], James Jemmy Jock Bird Jr. [half], Joseph Bird [half], William Bird [half], Henry James Bird [half], Elizabeth Maria (Bird) Sinclair [half], John Philip Bird [half], Letitia (Bird) McKay [half], Levi Bird [half], Chloe (Bird) Flett [half], Thomas Bird, Philip Pi-ax-i-wah Bird [half], Arthur Bird [half], Charlotte Betsy (Bird) Flett, Nicholas Garry Bird, Peter Bird, Curtis James Bird [half], Elizabeth Margaret (Bird) Griffin [half] and Harriet Isabella Bird [half]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died before
before about age 34
in Red River Settlement [uncertain]
[uncertain]Profile last modified
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Biography
Mary (Bird) Lane was a Canadian First Peoples and member of the Metis Nation.
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Mary was born 1829 in Red River the daughter of James Bird and Elizabeth Montour.
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.
She first married in 1842 Hector McKenzie (b1788 the son of Charles McKENZIE and Mary McKAY. Hector passed away in 1889 and at the time was with his second wife [1] Sarah Anne Eric and with a son Logan.
Children with Hector
- McKENZIE, Mary. Born c. 1842; baptized 2 August 1843 Red River.
- McKENZIE, Hugh
She second married in 1860 William Douglas Lane (Irishman) the son of John Lane. His first wife was Eliza Lee (nee Lewis). He appears as a widow in the 1870 Canada Census living with his daughter Eliza.
Children:
- LANE, Eliza Harriet. Born 19 May 1863
A Find-A-Grave bio lists a Mary Lane died in 1864. This may be her? [2]
In 1885 Eliza applied for Metis Scrip [3] Mary died 1864
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Quality Sources
Extracts from registers of baptisms, marriages and burials in Rupert's Land recording her Baptism in 1849 https://gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/name_indexes/rrs_baptisms_marriages_burials.html
HBC recording her birth and marriage in her father's biography. https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/_docs/hbca/biographical/b/bird_james_sr.pdf
Record of husband Lane widow, meaning Mary had passed https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1870&op=img&id=e010985579
Other Sources
Outstand genealogy on the Bird family including Mary * https://resistancemothers.wordpress.com/about/bird/
Genealogy of the Bird family * http://www.redriverancestry.ca/BIRD-JAMES-CURTIS-1773.php
https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0096985
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