When William Paul Bingham was born on 17 November 1908, his father, Goldson Davis Bingham, was 37 and his mother, Rosa Belle Weaver, was 16. He married Edith Beatrice Mast on 1 January 1931, in Johnson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Laurel Creek Township, Watauga, North Carolina, United States for about 10 years. He died on 14 December 1985, in Jefferson, Ashe, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Jefferson, Ashe, North Carolina, United States.
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 .
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