Brief Life History of Alexander
When Alexander Badlam Sr was born on 28 November 1808, in Dorchester, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Ezra Badlam, was 32 and his mother, Mary Lovis, was 34. He married Mary Ann Brannan about 1833, in Saco, York, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in California, United States in 1870 and San Francisco, California, United States in 1880. He died on 1 December 1894, in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Saint Helena Cemetery, St. Helena, Napa, California, United States.
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- Alex R Badlam in household of Joseph W Winans, "United States Census, 1880"
- Alexander Badlam, "Find a Grave Index"
- Alexander Badlam, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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World Events (8)
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1827
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
1832 · Black Hawk War
The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
English (Dorset): variant of Balaam (assimilated by folk etymology to the Biblical personal name Balaam, see Numbers 23–24), which is a habitational name from Baylham in Suffolk or a Norman surname derived from Ballon in Le Mans, Sarthe, France (compare Ballon ). The surname may also be a variant of English Balham, perhaps from Balham in Streatham, Surrey, named with Old English bealg ‘smooth’ or ‘round’ + hamm ‘water meadow, land hemmed in by water’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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