Daily AncestorBert
Bert is an old nickname for Albert, Robert or Cuthbert, found in American records of the 1700s and 1800s.
Bert is a short form of names that contain bert, such as Albert, Robert and Cuthbert, and was also used as a full name.
The same man can be Albert in one record and Bert in the next, for example a birth under one name and a marriage under the other. Match age, place and relatives before you join the two. Because Bert served for more than one name, see which full name the same man carries in other records.
As seen in a recordCity directory, 1890; the 1900 census lists him as Albert
Oddie Bert, teamster, bds 14 Mill St.
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