Brief Life History of Amos Oscar
When Amos Oscar Bingham was born about 1832, in Yonge Township, Leeds, Upper Canada, British Colonial America, his father, Jeremiah Bingham III, was 27 and his mother, Abigail Harrington, was 21. He died about 1833, in his hometown, at the age of 3.
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- Iowa, Pottawattanie County, Annotated Records of US Census. 1850. Amos Oscar Bingham
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Name Meaning
English (Dorset) and Irish (County Mayo): habitational name from Bingham (Nottinghamshire). The placename is probably from an Old English folk-name Bynningas (‘the people associated with a man named Bynna’), or possibly from an unattested Old English word bing ‘a kettle-shaped hollow’, + Old English hām ‘homestead’.
Irish (Ulster, of Scottish origin): altered form of Bigham .
American shortened and altered form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames such as Bingenheimer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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