When Merilla Dunham was born on 23 July 1833, in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, her father, Ebenezer Denham, was 25 and her mother, Orrila Hanks, was 23. She died on 4 June 1835, in Connecticut, United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of the places called Dunham (Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Cheshire). Most are named from Old English dūn ‘hill’ + hām ‘homestead’. A place in Lincolnshire now known as Dunholme appears in the Domesday Book as Duneham and this too serves as a source of the surname; here the first element is probably the Old English personal name Dunna. Dunham is often difficult to tell apart from Downham .
History: John Dunham (1590–1668) was a Puritan linen weaver who came to Plymouth, MA, via Leiden, the Netherlands, in 1633. He had many prominent descendants.
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