When Willard Eugene Bingham was born on 3 October 1856, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Willard Bingham, was 26 and his mother, Amanda Melvina Snow, was 18. He married Hannah Sarah McFarland on 8 May 1879, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Wilson, Weber, Utah, United States for about 30 years. He died on 13 December 1918, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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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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