Person:Thomas Bingham (19)

Thomas Bingham
  • HThomas Bingham1588 - 1648/49
  • WAnna FentonAbt 1606 - 1670
m. 6 Jul 1631
  1. Deacon Thomas Bingham1642 - 1728/29
Facts and Events
Name Thomas Bingham
Gender Male
Christening[1] 4 Aug 1588 Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Marriage 6 Jul 1631 Sheffield, Yorkshire, Englandto Anna Fenton
Burial[1] 12 Feb 1648/49 Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

Thomas was a cutler (knife maker) in Sheffield. His own mark, a capital TB written together as a merged letter, was assigned to him in 1614 when he was 26. (He was admitted as master cutter 21 Dec 1614). Probably “The Master Cutter” of Sheffield in 1624.[3] Tradition, according to the original Bingham genealogy, says he died on the way to America, but research for the 1996 revision found his burial record in Sheffield in 1648/9. He left six young children, six months to 16. His wife raised them alone, but most did not survive. She took her son Thomas to New England about 1659.[2]

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Parish Register of Sheffield in the county of York (1560-1754). (Yorkshire: Yorkshire Parish Register Society, 1917-2000).
  2. Munger, Donna Bingham. The Bingham family in the United States: The Descendants of Thomas Bingham of Connecticut.
  3. Bingham, Theodore A. The Bingham Family in the United States, Especially of the State of Connecticut: including notes on the Binghams of Philadelphia and of Irish descent; medieval records; armorial bearings; etc. (Easton, Pennsylvania: Bingham Association, 1927-1930).