When Adoniram Judson Bingham was born on 5 April 1820, in Wheatland, Monroe, New York, United States, his father, Reverend Abel Bingham, was 33 and his mother, Hannah Olmstead Brown, was 25. He married Emily Knapp on 26 October 1848, in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Holyoke, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1860 and Cohoes, Albany, New York, United States in 1865. He died on 3 August 1868, in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Wheatland Baptist Cemetery, Belcoda, Wheatland, Monroe, New York, United States.
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 .
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