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Sidney (Sid) Bird (1871–1955)

Sidney (Sid) Bird

Sidney (Sid) Bird (1871-1955) miner, soldier, check weighman and trade union leader Birth: 11 June 1871 at Spring Creek, near Young, New South Wales, seventh child of London-born parents William Charles Bird, a miner who participated in the Lambing Flats riots in 1860-1861, and Charlotte Fletcher, née Neale (1832-1881). Marriage: 16 January 1901 at Darlinghurst, Sydney, with Independent Presbyterian forms, to Queensland-born Margaret Ellen Vowles (1873-1943). They had seven daughters and three sons....

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