When Sarah Gillingham was born on 9 March 1774, in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, her father, John Gillingham, was 43 and her mother, Sarah White, was 33. She married Benjamin Rich on 5 October 1796. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 18 July 1836, at the age of 62, and was buried in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of the places in Dorset, Norfolk, and Kent, named Gillingham, ‘homestead (Old English hām) of the people of Gylla’, an unattested Old English personal name.
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