When Ervin Needham was born on 23 November 1884, in Napoleon Township, Henry, Ohio, United States, his father, Norman Fillmore Needham, was 23 and his mother, Catharine "Kate" Babcock Needham, was 29. He married Grace Jane McBride on 16 March 1910, in Dundee, Dundee Township, Monroe, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Napoleon, Napoleon Township, Henry, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Dundee, Dundee Township, Monroe, Michigan, United States in 1910. He died on 21 December 1952, in Napoleon, Henry, Ohio, United States, at the age of 68.
English: habitational name from any of various places so named, such as High Needham in Hartington (Derbyshire), Needham in Elm (Cambridgeshire), Needham (Norfolk), Needham in Yaxley, Needham Street in Gazeley or Needham Market (all in Suffolk). These places are named with Old English nēd ‘need, hardship’ + hām ‘homestead’, denoting a place that provided a poor living.
Irish (County Mayo): Anglicized form of Ó Niadh, see Nee .
History: English explorer James Needham carried the name to the southern Carolina settlement, arriving from Barbados in 1670 as a young man.
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