[Father] Bigham / Bingham

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Husband [Father] Bigham / Bingham

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1 M Thomas Bingham ¹

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2 M Robert Bingham ¹

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3 M Hugh Bigham / Bingham

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            AKA: Hugh Bigham,2 Hugh Bingham 3
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         Spouse: Martha Armor (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - [Father] Bigham / Bingham

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Different spellings of this surname appear in various sources.

The name of Bigham is a corruption or changed form of Bingham, and as far as known the Binghams and Bighams in America are derived from the same north of Ireland family and are supposed to be descendants of Sir John de Bingham, who came over with William the Conqueror, was knighted for his valient services and allotted estates near Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. One of these Binghams (Thomas), according to tradition, about 1480 emigrated from Sheffield to the north of Ireland, and there founded that branch of the family which seems so fully represented in the United States. Be that as it may, the Hon. Thomas J. Bigham, upon comparison of family histories, considered himself akin to the Binghams of Philadelphia and Ohio, the Bighams of Adams and Mercer counties, Pennsylvania, and many other Bighams and Binghams throughout the country. [HWC 1906 III, 136]

The name [Bigham] is thought to be a corruption of Bingham, although at Balle, County Down, Ireland, a table tomb erected to the family is inscribed Bigham and carries their armorial bearings. There is a Fort Bigham in Pennsylvania. [GNRPTF, 62]

1 Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies (New York, 1900), Pg 7.

2 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 62.

3 Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies (New York, 1900), Pg 8.