Brief Life History of Thomas
Thomas Bellingham was born about 1793, in County Antrim, Ireland as the son of Thomas Bellingham and Hannah Insley. He married Margaret Jane McCart about 1826, in Rasharkin, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 20 March 1877, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, at the age of 85.
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- Thomas Bellingham, "Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913"
- Thoms Bellingham, "Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913"
- Thomas Bellingham in entry for Hugh Coulter and Margaret Anne Bellingham, "Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913"
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1798
Battle of Antrim.
1798
The Young Ireland rebellion of 1798 failed.
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: habitational name from any of the places called Bellingham, in Greater London (formerly in Kent) and Northumberland. The former is named with Old English Beringahām ‘homestead (Old English hām) of the followers of Be(o)ra’, a byname meaning ‘bear’; the latter seems to have been originally named as the ‘homestead of the dwellers at the bell’, from Old English belle used in a transferred sense of a bell-shaped hill.
History: Richard Bellingham (c. 1592–1672) came from Boston, Lincolnshire, England, to Boston, MA, in 1634. He was a controversial political figure in the new colony, an opponent of John Winthrop (see Winthrop ). He was elected governor of MA in 1641 and again in 1654 and 1665–72. — An Irish family of this name trace their descent from William de Bellingham, who was sheriff of Tynedale, Northumbria, in 1279. They were established in Ireland by Robert Bellingham, who settled in County Longford in 1611. They gave their name to Castlebellingham in County Louth, Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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