Researching George Kidd
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 6096 people with the Kidd surname? In that year Kidd was ranked number 690 for popularity in the UK. |
The name George means "A Tiller of the Soil or a Farmer" and is of Greek origin.
Records of George Kidd on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for George Kidd and the Kidd Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Kidd Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Kidd family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 8149 people with the Kidd surname in the UK? Kidd is now ranked number 721 for popularity in the UK. |
Kidd Genealogy Databases
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Kidd Forums
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Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on George Kidd. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called George Kidd
George Kidd (ambassador)
George Pirkis Kidd (June 6, 1917 – July 22, 2004) was the first Canadian ambassador to Israel in 1954 and was the ambassador to Cuba at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
He was born in Glasgow, Scotland and later moved to Canada with his parents. He was wounded in action at the Battle of Normandy during World War II.
Kidd was posted as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Canadian embassy in Havana a few months after the American embassy closed in early 1961. A few days after the John F. Kennedy assassination, he expressed the opinion in a confidential memo (released in 1999) that, although he considered it unlikely, Cuban involvement in the killing could not be ruled out. He served in the same role for Haiti starting in 1962.
He was deputy director of the Canadian International Development Agency from 1967 to 1971. He served as High Commissioner to Nigeria and Sierra Leone from 1974 to 1977. After he retired in 1977, he served on the Board of Trustees of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the Board of Governors of the University of Victoria.
He died at the age of 87 from complications after hip surgery.
Source: George Kidd (ambassador), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaGeorge Nelson Kidd
George Nelson Kidd (October 1, 1864 – February 9, 1907) was an Ontario farmer and political figure. He represented Carleton in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1894 to 1907 as a Conservative-Patrons of Industry, then Independent Conservative and finally as a Conservative member.
He was born in Carp, Canada West, the son of Richard Kidd, an Irish immigrant, and educated at Carp and in Kingston. Kidd served as reeve of Huntley Township from 1889 to 1894. He was also president for the Huntley Agricultural Fair. Kidd married Esther Alvira Young. His cousin Edward Kidd represented Carleton in the House of Commons of Canada during the same time period.
Source: George Nelson Kidd, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaGeorge Balderston Kidd
Rev. George Balderston Kidd (28 July 1794 in Cottingham, near Hull – 1851, Scarborough) was a Dissenting Minister and theological writer.
He was the eldest son of the Rev. Anthony Kidd, Nonconformist minister. Kidd is mainly remembered for his posthumous book Christophaneia: The Doctrine of the Manifestations of the Son of God under the Economy of the Old Testament (ed. OT Dobbin; London: Ward, 1852). This was used in argument with Unitarians in the 19th Century to claim the pre-existence of Christ and the appearance of Christ as the Angel of the Lord and Ancient of Days in the Hebrew Bible. The book was also listed as Christophany: the Result of original Investigations into the Manifestations of the Son of God, under the Old Testament Dispensation. It was one of the first texts to use the term "Christophany" to apply to claimed appearances of Christ as angels in the Hebrew Bible, rather than in the New Testament sense such as the Damascus Christophany.
Source: George Balderston Kidd, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Kidd
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