Brief Life History of John Thomas
When John Thomas Stidham was born on 6 May 1854, in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States, his father, Peter Stidham, was 40 and his mother, Rebecca Stidham, was 31. He married Amelia Adams on 30 June 1877, in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in South Chester, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Cumberland, New Jersey, United States in 1905. He died on 21 December 1930, in Vineland, Cumberland, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Vineland, Cumberland, New Jersey, United States.
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- John F Stidam, "United States Census, 1910"
- John Thomas Stedham, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
- John T. Stidham, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1861
Historical Boundaries: 1861: Cumberland, New Jersey, United States 1880: Vineland Borough, Cumberland, New Jersey, United States 1952: Cumberland, New Jersey, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Americanized form, via Stedham , of an unidentified Scandinavian or perhaps Dutch surname recorded in DE in the 17th century as Stiddem. Possible Dutch source is Van Stedum, a habitational name from Stedum, a village near Loppersum in the province of Groningen, named with plural dative from stad, denoting a place or country estate (with specific rights). Compare Stidam .
Possibly also an altered form of English Stedham .
History: The progenitor of (the majority of) the Stidhams was Timon Stidham, the pioneer physician in New Sweden (today DE), who arrived from Sweden in 1638 for the first time, and again in 1654, when he settled in Fort Christina (later Willmington, DE). His original surname was recorded as Stiddem, the form not found in Scandinavia or elsewhere in Europe.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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