Brief Life History of Wheelock
When Wheelock Bingham was born on 18 April 1783, in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, United States, his father, Augustus Wheelock Bingham, was 19 and his mother, Hannah Davis, was 29. He married Polly Hill in 1805, in Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Sherburne, Sherburne, Chenango, New York, United States in 1855 and Sherburne, Chenango, New York, United States in 1860. He died on 18 April 1865, in Columbus, Chenango, New York, United States, at the age of 82.
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Sources (6)
- Wedlock Bingham in household of Wedlock Bingham, "United States Census, 1860"
- Wheelock Bingham, "Find A Grave Index"
- Family Bible Records
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1795
Established in 1795
1805
Established in 1805.
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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