Bingham Family History

Sunday, August 2, 2015

Alice Hulme (Haslam) (Eckersley)

ALICE HULME (HASLAM)(ECKERSLEY)

(complied by Derek Berge in Pioneer Pedigree )

born: October 12, 1815 in Lancashire, England

parents: George Hulme and Ann Barlow

bro/sis: 2nd of 8 children (5 brothers & 2 sisters)

chronology:

 Alice (age 19) married John Haslam (age unknown) in about 1834. From this

marriage, 3 children were born: Sarah (born 1835), William (1837) and Henry

(1839). Alice’s husband John Haslam died in the early 1840s. Following his

death, it appears that Alice and her 3 small children live with or near her parents.

 Alice’s father George Hulme was one of the early converts of the Church in the

Lancashire area of England being baptized on November 15, 1840 in Manchester.

He and his family were heavily ridiculed and persecuted because George had held

two very prominent positions in the Primitive Methodist Church, as the

Superintendent of the church’s Education Department and as a accomplished singer

 In March on 1842, the Whitefield Branch was organized in the Hulme home. Alice’s

father, George, was instrumental in the church’s early progress (George served as

Branch President).

 During the years from May 1842 - September of 1849, George served diligently and

was involved in several miraculous spiritual manifestations such as speaking in

tongues, visions and Priesthood blessings. Many of these experiences involved

George’s close friend, Joseph Eckersley.

 Joseph (age 36) married George Hulme’s widowed daughter Alice Hulme Haslam

(age 30) on November 23, 1845. At the time of their marriage, Alice’s 3 children

thru her previous marriage to John Haslam were: Sarah (age 10), William (8)

 Joseph and Alice Hulme Haslam Eckersley had 7 more children to complete

their family of 10 children (all of whom were born in Lancashire, England):

Emma (born 1846), Sophia (1848), Mary Ann (1850), Martha (1852), Elizabeth

(1854), George (1857) and Alice (1860).

 The Eckersley family were accomplished silk weavers by trade having worked in

textile factories in England. They most likely brought several weaving looms with

them to America and were later well known for their weavings in Utah.

 Alice’s two boys thru her first husband William (age 16) and Henry (age 14)

immigrated to America to earn money for the rest of the family to come later in

1853 (9 years prior to the remainder of the family). There were 9 ships which

traveled from Liverpool to New Orleans in. It is not known upon which ship they

traveled. The remaining 10 family members continued working in England to earn

their passage to America.

 On April 30, 1863, Joseph (age 54), Alice (age 48), Sara Haslam (age 28) and the 7

Eckersley children: Emma (age 17), Sophia (15), Mary Ann (13), Martha (11),

Elizabeth (9), George (6) and Alice (2) left Liverpool on the ship John J. Boyd.

The John J. Boyd was a large ship carrying 763 persons and was lead by William

X. Cluff. The ocean journey took 4 weeks (the exact arrival date is unrecorded).

Upon arrival in New York they were taken to Castle Garden for processing.

 The family of 10 then traveled westward by train from New York to St. Louis. The

train was so crowded and small that there was no room even to lie down.

 They then traveled by steamboat up the Missouri River for 3 days wherein they

reached Winter Quarters, Nebraska in the summer of 1863.

 The Eckersleys waited until the ox-train teamsters from Utah arrived. The

Eckersley family quickly joined with the teamsters and began their journey west as

part of the John R. Murdock (ox-team) Company I. The company was made up of

275 members. The children (ages 17 to the youngest daughter Alice age 3) walked

most all of the way.

 Upon safely arriving in Salt Lake City on August 26, 1863, they camped in a tent for

a week while waiting for their older step-brother to meet them with an ox-team.

The family of 10 and all their belongings reached Wellsville 2 days later. The

reunion was a happy one, with the entire blended family of 12 having all reached

the saints without any loss of life. There, in Wellsville, Cache County, Utah, they

would make their home.

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Thomas Bingham

Thomas Bingham (1642 - 1729) & Mary Rudd (1648 - 1726)

Thomas Bingham, christened in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, 5 June 1642, son of Thomas and Ann (Fenton) Bingham, died in Windham, Windham, Connecticut , 16 January 1730; married in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, 12 December 1666, Mary (Mabel) Rudd, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (---) Rudd, born in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut in 1649; died in Windham, 5 August 1726. Thomas is said to have emigrated with his mother to America about 1659, landing in Saybrook and settling in Norwich, of which he was one of the founders. The General Court of Connecticut sanctioned the application for permission to settle Norwich, 20 May 1659. The Uncas monument in Norwich lists thirty-five original settlers, including Thomas, in addition to Lt. Thomas Leffingwell, Thomas Bliss, and William and Stephen Backus. Thomas had a lot of four acres, running from the street to the Jantic River. He was of record in Norwich as late as 1693, at which time he apparently removed to Windham. His tombstone in Windham reads:

"Here lies ye body of that Holy Man of God Deacon Thomas Bingham ... He was ye son of Mr. Thomas & Mrs. Mary Bingham living in Sheffield in York Shier in England: he dyed Janr ye 16, 1729/30 in ye 88 year of his Age." The tombstone of his wife Mary, also in Windham Center cemetery, reads: "Mrs. Mary ye late wife of Mr. Thomas Bingham who died August ye 5 1726 & in ye 78 year of her age."

Thomas and Mary were the parents of 12 children.

Background on Thomas and Mary's life (Added by Lumimom on 27 Jan 2008 )
The Bingham family, of which Mrs. Pettee is a member, is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and in the early day was connected with the English nobility, and enjoyed the possession of a coat of arms. Deacon Thomas Bingham was the first American ancestor, and he settled in Saybrook, Connecticut, but his death occurred in Windham, Connecticut, in 1730, at the age of eighty-eight years. He was one of the prominent figures of that day and place. He married Mary Rudd. of Saybrook, the daughter of Lieutenant Jonathan Rudd, and her mother was known as the celebrated "Bride of Bride Brook." Thomas Bingham was the -eldest child of this marriage, and was born in 1667 in Norwich, Connecticut, and was, in succession to his father, one of the proprietors of that town. He married Hannah, daughter of Lieutenant W. Backus. Their family consisted of eight children, of which number Deacon Joseph Bingham was lieutenant of a company in the French and Indian war. His son Jeremiah was a resident of Bennington, Vermont, and later of Cornwall, where he was an early settler. He was one of the heroes at the battle of Bennington on the l6th of August, 1777, when General Stark totally defeated the British. Asaph Bingham, the son of Jeremiah, served as a volunteer at the battle of Plattsburg in 1814. and was later a colonel of militia, a man of distinction in the community, and represente.! Cornwall in the legislature, and for a period <,: twenty years was clerk of the town. He was twice married, first to Laura Smith, and second to Hannah (family name unknown), and by these wives had the following children: Joel, Sarah, Sarah S., Asaph H. and Benjamin F. The last named, the father of Mrs. Pettee, was born April 9, 1824, was a distinguished educator, and for a period of twenty-six years before his death in 1889 was principal of the high school of Brattleboro. He married Frances Pease, and they became the parents of Cora, Lena, Louise. Eugenia, and Charles.

Description Taken from the Vermont Family and Geneology History

For more information on Thomas Bingham (1642- 1730) see: http://binghamassociation.com/Bingham_Association_Official_Website/Thomas_Bingham_of_Connecticut.html