Brief Life History of Ephraim
When Ephraim Bidwell was born on 17 September 1782, in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Isaac Bidwell, was 27 and his mother, Rhoda Beckley, was 22. He died on 26 January 1817, at the age of 34.
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English: habitational name from Bedwell (Essex, Hertfordshire), Bedlar's Green (Essex), Bidwell (Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Devon, Somerset), or Biddles Farm (Buckinghamshire), all of which were named as ‘the spring or stream in a shallow valley’ from Old English bydewelle (composed of the elements byde(n) ‘tub’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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