James Bingham (1882)

Born 21 Apr 1882 in Somercotes, Derbyshire, England

Ancestors

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Biography

James Bingham, the son of William Jarvis Bingham and Naomi (Browning) Bingham, was born on 21 Apr 1882 in Somercotes, Derbyshire, England. He was baptised on 10 Feb 1889 aged 8 at St. Martins Church, Alfreton, Derbyshire along with three sisters and one brother.

In the 1891 census he was a scholar aged 8 years old. By the 1901 census James, his father and younger sister Gertrude were lodging with another family and James was now a miner aged 18.

James' father died three years later and I suspect it was then that James enlisted in the British Army in the Royal Field Artillery and by the time of the 1911 census James was now a bombadier and serving in the 12th Battery of the Royal Field Artillery in Ambala, Punjab, India.

I cannot trace him after that. He may have died in World War One.

1891 Census
Residence: Market Place, Alfreton, Derbys.

1901 Census
Residence: Old Radford, Nottingham

NB William J Bingham was born in Newborough, Northamptonshire, and Peakirk is also in Northamptonshore, not Lancashire.

Sources

Birth

England & Wales General Register Office, GRO Online Index - Birth (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content : accessed [21 Jul 2020]), database entry for BINGHAM, JAMES (Mother's maiden surname: BROWNING). GRO Reference: 1882 J Quarter in BELPER Volume 07B Page 627.

Baptism

Alfreton : St Martin : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5aa3d211f493fdc5c7065ea9 : viewed 21 Jul 2020) baptism James Bingham 10 Feb 1889

Census

1891

"England and Wales Census, 1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:46R4-KPZ : 5 May 2019), James Bingham in household of William Bingham, Alfreton, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1891 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 12, Derbyshire county, subdistrict, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.

1901

"England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSF1-TVR : 21 May 2019), James Bingham in household of Bertie Barnes, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Nottingham North West subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.

1911

"England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7V4-FG4 : 13 September 2019), James Bingham, , , Overseas Military,; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 14, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.