When James Dudley Stidham was born in May 1858, in Perry, Kentucky, United States, his father, John Stidham, was 37 and his mother, Margaret Patty Santee, was 31. He married Nancy Jane Lovins about 1875, in Leslie, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 2 Big Creek, Leslie, Kentucky, United States in 1935 and Magisterial District 2, Leslie, Kentucky, United States in 1940.
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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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