When Elmer Jay Birmingham was born on 28 March 1873, in Sturgeon Bay, Door, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Eugene Birmingham, was 30 and his mother, Mezilla Mariah Grant, was 23. He died on 21 January 1892, at the age of 18, and was buried in Sturgeon Bay, Door, Wisconsin, United States.
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English: habitational name from Birmingham in the West Midlands. In Domesday Book the name is already found as Bermingeham, but it seems likely that it was originally Beornmundingahām ‘homestead (Old English hām) of the people of (-inga-) Beornmund’, a personal name composed of the elements beorn ‘young man, warrior’ + mund ‘protection’. This surname is established in Ireland (see Bermingham ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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