Lydia Bingham

Brief Life History of Lydia

Lydia Bingham was born about 1800, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. She married Frederick William Skidmore on 1 August 1825, in Leeds St Paul, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She died in 1847, in Nether Hallam, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 48.

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Family Time Line

Frederick William Skidmore
1803–1868
Lydia Bingham
1800–1847
Marriage: 1 August 1825
Sarah Ann Skidmore
1826–
Hannah Skidmore
1827–
Ann Skidmore
1828–
Frederick Skidmore
1831–1873
Hezekiah Skidmore
1833–
Mary Skidmore
1835–
Maria Skidmore
1837–1877
William Skidmore
1842–

Sources (12)

  • Lydia Skidmore in household of Frederick Skidmore, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
  • England, Death Record of Lydia Skidmoore
  • Lydia in entry for Frederick Skidmore, "England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016"

World Events (7)

1801 · The Act of Union

The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.

1808 · The British West Africa Squadron

The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.

1815

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

Name Meaning

English (Dorset) and Irish (County Mayo): habitational name from Bingham (Nottinghamshire). The placename is probably from an Old English folk-name Bynningas (‘the people associated with a man named Bynna’), or possibly from an unattested Old English word bing ‘a kettle-shaped hollow’, + Old English hām ‘homestead’.

Irish (Ulster, of Scottish origin): altered form of Bigham .

American shortened and altered form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames such as Bingenheimer .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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