Thomas Bingham, Ill

Thomas Bingham of Connecticut descends from a family that lived in North Nottingham and South Yorkshire, England. Despite exhaustive research, his English ancestry has thus far been documented backwards for only two generations. Parish registers show that his father, Thomas Bingham, was baptized 4 August 1588 at the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Sheffield, Yorkshire, and that his grandfather, Thomas Bingham, born about 1555, married Maria Longley 26 January 1577/8 at the same church. Thomas, himself, was baptized there 5 June 1642. The record does not go further back.

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Thomas's father, Thomas Sr., was a cutler (knife or file maker) in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. According to the Cutler's Company third set of ordinances, his own mark, a capital TB written with a common staff to form a merged letter, had been assigned to him by the time he was twenty-six years old in 1614. Baptized 3 Aug 1588 in the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Sheffield, Thomas Sr. married Elizabeth Woodhouse in the same church 2 May 1618. They had a son, Thomas, in 1619, but the child died in 1621. Thomas Sr. was included again in the list of cutlers prepared in 1624 when the company incorporated, and he was a master cutler, but at no time was he “The” Master Cutler or president of the company.

Thomas Sr.'s wife, Elizabeth, died April 1631 without bearing additional children.

He remarried to Anna Fenton.

Thomas Bingham 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.[ [619]] 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.[ [620]]

Children with Elizabeth Woodhouse (d 1631) Married 6 May 1618, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

1. Thomas Bingham bp 22 Sep 1619, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England buried 2 Sep 1621, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England (Died young)

Children of Thomas Bingham with Anna Fenton (b abt 1606, d May 1670, Norwich, CT). Daughter of Robert Fenton & Alice Hancock. She married William Backus second. They married 6 Jul 1631, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.

1. Abel Bingham bp 13 May 1632, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
2. Stephen Bingham bp 26 Dec 1633, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
3. Edward Bingham bp 28 Mar 1636, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England buried 16 Jul 1643, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England (Died young)
4. Robert Bingham bp 11 Dec 1638, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
5. Elizabeth Bingham bp 18 Oct 1640, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England buried 22 Jul 1641, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England (Died young)
6. Deacon Thomas BINGHAM III (Immigrant) bp 5 Jun 1642, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England 16 Jan 1729/30, Windham, Windham Co, CT. Married Mary RUDD.
7. Anna Bingham bp 5 Nov 1644, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England Burial14 Jan 1646, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England (Died young)
8. Maria Bingham bp 2 Jul 1648, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

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These dates would make the father of the first American ancestor about 70 years old in 1658 and would thus fall in with the tradition that he died on the voyage to America. Dec. 21, 1614, a Thomas Bingham was admitted as a master cutler and a trade mark was granted him. It was probably this Thomas Bingham who was "The Master Cutler" of Sheffield in 1624 A.D.--(Bingham, 1927, p. 155.)

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Traditionally, the efforts of the Association have been focused on the descendants of Thomas Bingham of Connecticut. Thomas, with his mother, Anne Fenton Bingham, migrated to the American colonies from Sheffield, Yorkshire, England between 1652 and 1659 when Thomas was ten to seventeen years old. Thomas and his father, Thomas, were probably from the Nottingham Bingham Family, but a documented connection is not proven, yet.

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References

• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~amorrow/genealogy/fg04/fg04_169.html
• 360. Parish Register of Sheffield, York (St. Peter and Paul Church), Pt. 1: Bapt & Marriages 1560-1634; Pt. 2: Bur 1560-1634, Bapt & Marriages 1635-1653, Transc. by Charles Drury, Yorkshire Parish Register Society, 1917, NEHGS.
• https://backushistory.info/getperson.php?personID=I159&tree=backus1
• http://nielsenhayden.com/genealogy-tng/getperson.php?personID=I1010... cites
  • 1. [S2280] The Granberry Family and Allied Families, Including the Ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry based on data compiled by and for Edgar Francis Waterman and compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. Hartford, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman, 1945.
  • 2. [S164] Bingham Association Official Website.
  • 3. [S717] The Parish Register of Sheffield in the County of York, Part I, Baptisms and Marriages 1560 to 1634-5, transcribed and edited by Charles Drury and T. Walter Hall. Yorkshire: Yorkshire Parish Register Society, 1917.
  • 4. [S165] Everett F. Bingham, "William Backus of Sheffield, Yorkshire, and Norwich, Connecticut." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 142:253, July 1988.
  • 5. [S382] Ancestors of Morris Charles Phelps.
  • 6. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015
• https://www.donnabinghammunger.com/Thomas_Bingham_of_Connecticut.html