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RE: Nouveau College Bird in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

The Nouveau Bird College was founded by my Great Great Grandfather, Mark Baker Bird who was not an American, he was British.

He was born in London in 1807 and moved to the Channel Islands which are British islands to the south of England when he was 7 but returned to England when he was 13 following the death of his mother.

His father became a devotee of Methodism in Reading and this clearly influenced his son who became a Methodist minister in 1832. In 1839, he arrived as a missionary in Port au Prince and stayed in Haiti for most of the next 40 years before returning to the Channel Islands where he was buried in 1880.
Could you please change his origin from American to British?

Thanks.

Chris Despres

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Nouveau College Bird in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

This is a picture of Nouveau College Bird in Port-au-Prince, established the United Methodist Church in Haiti. The...

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