William Frederick 'Arthur' Wratislaw Bird

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Wendy found marriage; St George Martyr, Camden 6 August 1850 William Fred.Wratislaw Bird of 5 Kings Road Son of George Ryder, Gentleman to Fanny Bateman of 3 Cumming Street d of William Bateman Esquire

1851 Census (age 36) living at 5 King's Road, Trinity Parish, St George, Holborn St Andrew, London with wife and 2 unmarried sisters (Rosamund 28 and Jane 22, both annuitants) and 2 servants. Occupation; Attourney & Solicitor.NB here says first name is William, but definately same person.

1861 Census (age 46) living with wife, 3 sons, 4 servants at Wilmington House, Wilmington Kent. Occupation; Solicitor practising in London.

1871 Census (age 56) living with wife, 2 daughters, 3 sons, 2 servants at 27 Hamilton Terrace, St John's, Marylebone, London. Occupation; Solicitor. NB; ALSO (previous sheet) living at 27 Hamilton Terrace is Elizabeth Bateman - but both listed as head, with separate sets of servants. Perhaps house sub-divided?

1881 Census (age 66) living at 28 The Beach, Walmer, Kent with wife, son and 2 servants. Occupation; Retired Solicitor. Again is William Bird again here?!?!

Dead by '91 census - as wife is listed as widow.

Bird & Bird is still going;
http://www.twobirds.com/English/ABOUTUS/Pages/History.aspx
1846 William Frederick Wratislaw Bird founds a law firm in Gray's Inn in partnership with James Moore. The firm is called Bird & Moore.
1853 Bird & Moore takes up residence at 5 Gray's Inn Square, London where the firm remains until 1941.
1884 The firm's founder, WFW Bird dies at the age of 74. His son, William Barrott Montford Bird, carries on the practice and builds a strong clientele in the coal mining and iron making sector. WBM Bird later forms one of the first electric light bulb companies whose successor - now a household name - is still a client of the firm.
1898 Now known as Bird Moore & Strode, the firm instructs D M Kerly in its first reported trade mark case - an application by The Eastman Photographic Materials Company Ltd to register 'Solio' in respect of photographic paper.
1905 The firm is renamed Bird & Bird under the leadership of W B M Bird and his cousin Ernest Edward Bird.
1909 Bird & Bird conducts its first reported patent case. The case of 'Z' Electric Manufacturing Co Ltd v Marples, Leach & Co Ltd concerned filaments for incandescent electric bulbs.
1941 Bird & Bird is forced to move premises after the building at 5 Gray's Inn Square is destroyed in an air raid.
1943 Ernest E Bird serves as president of the Law Society and is reputed to have chaired their shortest ever AGM due to an air raid warning. He was knighted the following year.
1950 Sir William Bird (knighted in 1920) dies - leaving the firm 'Birdless' for the first time since its foundation.

William married Fanny Bateman, daughter of William Bateman and Elizabeth Maria Beilby, on 6 Aug 1850 in St George Martyr, Camden, London. (Fanny Bateman was born in 1827 in Islington, London.)