When Hannah Burlingame was born about 1764, in Cranston, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, her father, James Burlingame Jr., was 25 and her mother, Abigail Knight, was 23. She married Waterman Burlingame in 1786. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 6 September 1818, in Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 55.
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English: habitational name from Burlingham in Norfolk ‘homestead (Old English hām) of Bærla's or Byrla's people’, or from Birlingham in Worcestershire ‘enclosure (Old English hamm) of Byrla's people’. This surname is now rare in Britain.
History: Joel Burlingame was a Methodist exhorter and lay preacher at New Berlin, NY, in the 1820s. His son Anson Burlingame, born in New Berlin in 1820, headed the first diplomatic mission to China and negotiated the Burlingame Treaty (1868).
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