When Samuel Wadhams was born in 1786, in Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Moses Wadhams, was 27 and his mother, Ann Collins, was 24. He married Olive Towner on 12 February 1812, in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died after 1850.
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English: variant of Wadham, with post-medieval excrescent -s, a habitational name from Wadham in Knowstone (Devon). The placename derives from the Old English personal name Wada or Old English wād ‘woad’ + hām ‘village, homestead’ or hamm ‘water meadow’. Wadham College, Oxford, was founded in 1610 by Dorothy Wadham, widow of Nicholas Wadham (died 1609), a wealthy Somerset landowner.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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