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1. Thomas BINGHAM of CONNECTICUT
Born: 5 Jun 1642 Sheffield, Yorkshire, England®417
Mar: 12 Dec 1666 Mary RUDD (Jonathan RUDD, Mary METCALF); Norwich, CT ®2:8;
Born: 1649 Saybrook, CT; Died: 5 Aug 1726 Windham, CT ®5:33
Died: 16 Jan 1730 Windham, CT; Inv & Adm: 3 Mar 1730 Windham, CT ®9:1:198:356
All research to the present time indicates that Thomas Bingham of Connecticut and his mother, Anne Fenton Bingham, were the earliest Binghams to settle in the North American colonies. They migrated to Saybrook, Connecticut Colony, from Sheffield, Yorkshire, England between 1652 and 1659 when Thomas, who was born in 1642, was ten to seventeen years old.
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.
Thomas's father, Thomas Sr., was a cutler (knife or file maker) in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.®420: 2: 96 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.®420: 2: 93 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.®417 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.®420: 2: 96 Thomas Sr.'s wife, Elizabeth, died April 1631 without bearing additional children.
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