Brief Life History of Elizabeth Gaines
When Elizabeth Gaines Bingham was born on 18 January 1790, in West Point, King William, Virginia, United States, her father, Stephen Bingham, was 52 and her mother, Ann Gaines, was 25. She married George Kemp Lambeth in 1812, in Lynchburg, Campbell, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Watauga Township, Watauga, North Carolina, United States in 1850. She died on 5 February 1856, in Campbell, Virginia, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Old City Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia, United States.
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- Elizabeth Bingham in household of David Miller, "United States Census, 1850"
- E G Lambeth, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- E G Lambeth, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Death Records, 1853-1912"
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World Events (8)
1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
1792 · Capital City Moved
New Bern had been the capital of North Carolina in its early days. In 1792, the capital was moved to Raleigh because it was more the center of the state.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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