700-Year Old
Parish Church in Bingham, England, where Bingham
ancestors
are buried and may be linked to Frederick Bingham's family, although that
has never been proven.
The tomb of Sir Richard de Bingham is pictured with his coat of arms,
representing three silver yokes for carrying water, an apparent link to
The Crusades.
17th Century
Bingham British Colonists to The New World
Frederick
Bingham's family ancestors lived in Connecticut in
the 1650s (more than 120 years prior to the American
Revolution). The family emigrated from Sheffield, in South
Yorkshire, England.
The family name in South Yorkshire and North
Nottingham may date back to 1263 A.D. (King Henry
III) to Ralph Bugge de Bingham. The geographic name
Bingham adopted by Bugge was used prior to the feudal
Nottinghamshire property holding of Bingham Manor or
Bingham Hundred. The term "Bingham" or "Byngham"
reportedly originated in the fifth century and assigned by William The Conquerer in 1086 A.D. * The
Bingham ancestors also
include a real-life "Sheriff of Nottingham" , the
same position in the ballad of "Robin Hood." The
rich family history includes stories of sheep
ranching and wool production, multi-generations of church leadership
around and after the Puritan movement, colonization of
Connecticut, service to the American cause in the Revolutionary War
in Vermont, a French and
Indian War commander, knights and nobility, and honing
fine English cutlery.
* Donna Bingham Munger,
a professional geneologist on the Bingham Association official website,
identifies two English Bingham families and doubts
they are directly related. One evolved from Dorset,
England, and another is from Nottinghamshire, England.
She and other family researchers indicate support
for this unproven link to Nottinghamshire and Sir
Ralph Bugge de Bingham. (Copyright
1996, The Bingham Association, Updated 2000). But
she stresses that no actual geneologic link can be
made. Geneological information on
this website before 1554 A.D. (Thomas Bingham
II) is from Bob Barton's research and others, and questionably
links the American Binghams to Melcombe Bingham in
Dorset, England.
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1800s: Bingham Sheep
Alonzo L. Bingham was reportedly among the foremost
breeders of Merino Sheep in Connecticut, beginning
with imports from Spain in 1846. Prior to that, he
was a major importer and breeder of sheep from
France.
Right,
The ancestors of Alonzo Bingham and Louisa
L. Stockwell date to prior to the United States
Revolutionary War. So far all ancestors discovered
after 1700 and posted at right are in Connecticut,
Massachusetts, and Vermont.
1776: Revolutionary War
Jeremiah Bingham
reportedly fought in the Revolutionary War and
reportedly played a prominent role in the "Battle of
Bennington." The battle was an early decisive
victory for the rebels and is credited with leading
to French involvement for the Americans and victory
in the later Battles of Saratoga.
His father, Lt. Joseph D. Bingham cammanded a
company in
the French and Indian War. Joseph Bingham was a
church deacon. ***
The lieutenant's father and mother were born in New
London County, Connecticut in 1667 and 1675
respectfully.
British Colonial Connecticut, circa 1650
The second tree shows the 16th and 17th Century
ancestors of Thomas Bingham V. Deacon Thomas
Bingham, labeled Thomas Bingham IV, and his mother,
Ann Fenton, emigrated to Connecticut from England
between 1651 and 1659. They settled in Saybrook and
he was one of the first 35 residents of Norwich (1661),
and later Windham (1700) where he was named deacon
of a new church. Windham property was made
available to colonists including the Binghams when
it was willed to Norwich settlers by the son of
"Uncas", the Mohican chief in 1678.
17th Century Makers of Cutlery
Sheffield was designated
by Parliament as a major center for the manufacture
of knives, scissors and other cutlery. The Deacon's father, who apparently died in England, was a Sheffield knife maker and had the registered mark of
the merged letters TB for "Thomas Bingham." He is
labeled Thomas Bingham III on this chart. His
mother's second husband, William Backus, was also a
Sheffield, England, knife maker. The mark was a W
over a B, according to the Bingham Association.
1532: Sheffield Binghams
The Bingham Family dates back to at least to 1532
Sheffield, Yorkshire, England with the first of five
generations of "Thomas Binghams."
Sir Bingham
No matter which of two
English Binghams that this family links to, there
are knights and manors in the history.
The final tree shows the unconfirmed ancestors of Thomas Bingham
I which led to three generations of Robert Binghams.
The earliest two (Robert Bingham I and Robert
Bingham II) carried the title of "Robert Sir Bingham
van Melcombe" from Dorset, England. The earliest
died in "Bingham, Dorset, England."
The Sheriff of Nottingham
(circa 1300)
The link to Dorset
Binghams is persuasively rebuffed by Geneologist Donna Bingham
Munger but she and her colleagues point to a more
likely 13th Century tie to other knights who owned "Bingham Manor" in
Nottinghamshire: Sir Richard de Bingham (knighted in
1284), son of the first Bingham, Sir Ralph Bugge de Bingham.
Sir Richard de Bingham performed many functions in
Nottingham. He was a judge (justice of gaol
delivery), a verderer (who holds court on Royal
forest land issues), a member of parliament (knight
of the shire) and he recruited 1,500 men for King
Edward's war in Scotland.
But this sounds like something right out of the
mythical Robin Hood. It seems that Sir Richard
de Bingham served as "Sheriff of Nottingham."
This is the same position and perhaps the same
century as portrayed in the Robin Hood legend.
However, Wikipedia generally does not list Sheriff
Bingham among the real-life role models for
the legend.
***
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Description Taken from the Vermont Family and
Geneology History Attached
to Asaph White (1747 - 1828) Thomas Bingham (1642 -
1730)
** The Delphia-Cummings family has French Canadian roots
beginning with Louis Delphia in 1837 and John
Cummings in 1838.
* Donna Bingham Munger,
Bingham Association official website, identified
possible early Binghams that can not be linked with
direct geneology.
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Ancestors of Elonzo Bingham
Emigration from England
to America
Ancestors of Thomas Bingham V
Possible 15th Century
links to Bingham Manor
Ancestors of Thomas Bingham I
The Sheriff of Nottingham
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Barbara
Hudson's Mystery Parents
Barbara Hudson (Bingham), the mother of Robin
Bingham (Ganders), was born to Dale Hudson and
Thelma Verity. But family members like Robin
learned little about her grandmother and grandfather
and much of what she was told by her mother has proved to be false.
Robin was told her grandmother died during birth to
her mother, that they were related to Native
Americans and her grandfather died in World War II.
This is all false.
Indications are that Thelma Verity gave birth to
Barbara when she was 16 years old in Marion, Ohio.
The father was Dale Hudson, an electric welder born
in Michigan who was about 20 years old. They married
on January 24, 1935. Within five years, they were
divorced. In 1940, he would enlist in the
Army and serve during World War II and survive. Barbara was passed
among Dale's family members to be raised. Young
Barbara lived with Dale's mother, Mae, at least
until she was four years old.
Thelma Verity was married three more times and lived
in Ohio until 1994 without having any apparent
contact with her only child. In the mid-1950s, she was
married for the fourth time to Franklin Russell
Tite, according to Jeff Rahrig, a nephew of Thelma's
who lives in Elryia, Ohio. Rahrig said he was
extremely fond of his Aunt Thelma as well as his
Uncle Franklin. Her name at the time of her
death was Thelma Tite. Dale Hudson lived until 1963
and also apparently had no contact with his first
child.
Right: Photo of Thelma Verity (Hudson)(Tite),
perhaps near the time of the birth of her only
child, Barbara Hudson.
Circa 1935-45. Courtesy of Jeff Rahrig
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Barbara
Hudson had English and German
Roots
Above,
The father of
Samuel Hudson was born in England. His mother was
born in Ohio, so the marriage was likely in the
colonies.
Others in the chart above, including those marked
"Unknown" are all in Indiana,Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Right, Joseph and Lucretia Verity have parents born
in Yorkshire,England (Thomas Verity and Ann
Newbold.) The Whiteoak, Verity and Newbold families
all emigrated from England.
Emigration to the United States appears to have
happened around 1806-1837.
Bowersmith (and Geringer families) date back to
Germany before 1730.
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