When Erastus Ingham was born on 16 July 1755, in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, his father, Daniel Ingham, was 32 and his mother, Mahitabel Phelps, was 29. He married Elizabeth Hutchinson on 2 November 1778, in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Bancroft, Middlefield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years. He died on 19 February 1827, in Middlefield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Middlefield Center Cemetery, Middlefield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from any of the places called Ingham, particularly in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk. The placename is from the Old English personal name Inga + hām ‘homestead’. In Yorkshire this name was sometimes confused with Bingham in the 18th century.
English (of Norman origin): variant of the obsolete Norman surname Engaine; see Gain .
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