When Elijah Fordham was born on 8 March 1798, in New York City, New York County, New York, United States, his father, George Fordham Jr., was 31 and his mother, Mary Baker, was 32. He married Jane Ann Fisher on 23 November 1822, in New York City, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. He died on 9 September 1879, in Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Wellsville Cemetery, Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of the places in Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Norfolk named Fordham, from Old English ford ‘ford’ + hām ‘homestead’.
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Elijah Fordham was born March 8, 1798, in New York City, New York, son of George Fordham and Mary Baker. He married Jann Fisher in 1823. They had two children. Their first child died. Their second chi …
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