When Joseph Kirkham was born on 6 May 1799, in Cheddleton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Job Kirkham, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth Hill, was 21. He married Dinah Bacchus on 27 June 1819, in Stoke upon Trent, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Burslem, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Rushton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851.
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English (mainly northwestern): habitational name from any of the places in Lancashire and East Yorkshire named Kirkham. The placenames derive from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + Old English hām ‘village, homestead’ or Old Norse heim ‘homestead, estate’.
Possibly an altered form of German Kirchham, a habitational name from either of two places called Kirchham, in Austria or Bavaria.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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