When James Dunham was born on 18 October 1763, in Mansfield, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Ebenezer Dunham, was 43 and his mother, Phebe Ladd, was 40. He married Experience White about 1781, in North Coventry, Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons. He died on 21 March 1855, in Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 91.
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English: habitational name from any of the places called Dunham (Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Cheshire). Most are named from Old English dūn ‘hill’ + hām ‘homestead’. A place in Lincolnshire now known as Dunholme appears in the Domesday Book as Duneham and this too serves as a source of the surname; here the first element is probably the Old English personal name Dunna. Dunham is often difficult to tell apart from Downham .
History: John Dunham (1590–1668) was a Puritan linen weaver who came to Plymouth, MA, via Leiden, the Netherlands, in 1633. He had many prominent descendants.
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