Brief Life History of Thomas Kitchen
When Thomas Kitchen Stidham was born on 8 September 1838, in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States, his father, John Henderson Stidham, was 29 and his mother, Lidia Pierce Kitchen, was 23. He married Martha Matilda Comfort on 2 October 1862, in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Christiana Hundred, New Castle, Delaware, United States in 1860 and Trenton Township, Edwards, Kansas, United States in 1880. He died on 10 February 1902, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- thomas stidham in household of john stidham, "United States Census, 1860"
- Thomas K. Stidham, "Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940"
- Thomas Kitchen Stidham, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Los Angeles, California, United States
1855 · Prohibition Law
Delaware enacted a statewide prohibition law in 1855.
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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Thomas Kitchen Stidham was born 8 Sept. 1838 in Wilmington, Delaware and died 10 Feb 1902 in Los Angeles, California, he was the son of John Henderson & Lydia Pierce Stidham of Philadelphia, Pennsylva …
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