Descendants of James Bingham of County Down, Northern Ireland
Description:... James Bingham of Kilmore Parish, County Down, Northern Ireland (Ulster). James was born in 1732 to Thomas Bingham and Elizabeth Hay. In 1753, he married Ann Cleland of Kilmore. Four of their children emigrated from Ireland to North Carolina ca. 1785. They were William, Robert, Mary (Shaw) and Thomas. Rev. William Bingham (1754-1826) became a Presbyterian minister and founded the Bingham School of North Carolina in 1793. The school continued until the 1920's, and had three generations of Bingham headmasters. After living in Guilford County, North Carolina for a few years, Thomas Bingham (1769-1854) moved to the Lebanon area of Wilson County, Tennessee and established a large family there. Later descendants also lived in Arkansas, California, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Washington D.C. and elsewhere.
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