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Both born in Birmingham,England. I believe they were born in Lye.
Jeremiah had sisters and brothers. They were John, Robert,Joseph,Lily,Emily.
Sarah I believe had a sister Edith. All moved to Toledo Ohio USA. Any
information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Hi Carolyn welcome to the boards, are you wanting info about them before they left England or after they went to the US?

For reference, this looks like them in 1920:

1920 United States Federal Census about Jerimiah Bingham
Name: Jerimiah Bingham [Jerimiah Bringham]
Age: 50
Birth Year: abt 1870
Birthplace: England
Home in 1920: Toledo Ward 7, Lucas, Ohio
Race: White
Gender: Male
Immigration Year: 1897
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Sarah Bingham
Father's Birthplace: England
Mother's Birthplace: England

Household Members:
Name Age
Jerimiah Bingham 50
Sarah Bingham 46 - wife, b England
Esther Bingham 15 - dau, b NY
Edith Bingham 13 - dau, b Ohio
Edith Egginton 29 - sis-in-law, b England. Arrived US 1908

Can't make out Jeremiah's occupation.

Seems to be some confusion about when the family arrived. Jeremiah states naturalised 1894 but don't think he could have been naturalised before he arrived!

Arrival:

Philadelphia Passenger Lists, 1800-1945
Name: Jermiah Bingham
Arrival Date: 6 Jun 1895
Age: 26 Years
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1869
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Ship Name: Indiana
Port of Arrival: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Last Residence: Brierlig Hill
Microfilm Roll Number: T840_23

Travelling alone, occupation fitter, arrived on speculation. Appears he had $1,000 with him ??

EDIT: there was an Annie with him, listed further down the page.

Family in 1891:

BINGHAM, Joseph Head Married M 49 1842 Smith Lye, Worcestershire
BINGHAM, Hannah Wife Married F 49 1842 Lye, Worcestershire
BINGHAM, John Son M 25 1866 Idiot Lye, Worcestershire
BINGHAM, Jeremiah Son Married M 22 1869 Fitter Lye, Worcestershire
BINGHAM, Susan Daughter In Law Married F 28 1863 Stourbridge, Worcestershire
BINGHAM, Emily Daughter Single F 17 1874 Machinist Lye, Worcestershire
BINGHAM, Joseph Son Single M 15 1876 Smith Lye, Worcestershire
BINGHAM, Robert Son Single M 14 1877 Felter Lye, Worcestershire
BINGHAM, Lilly Daughter F 11 1880 Scholar Lye, Worcestershire
BINGHAM, Harriet Daughter F 10 1881 Scholar Lye, Worcestershire
BINGHAM, Daisy Daughter F 6 1885 Scholar Lye, Worcestershire
BINGHAM, Daisy M Granddaughter F 2 1889 Stourbridge, Worcestershire

Piece: 2304 Folio: 28 Page: 50
Registration District: Stourbridge
Civil Parish: The Lye
Municipal Borough: Worcester

Address: Chapel Street, The Lye, Worcester County: Worcestershire

Wife's name Susan??

Although he appeared alone on the passenger list he was apparently travelling with wife Annie (25) according to this:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Immigration Records, Special Boards of Inquiry, 1893-1909
Name: Jeremiah Bingham
Birth Year: abt 1869
Arrival Date: 6 Jun 1895
Arrival Age: 26
Ship Name: Indiana
Nativity/Origin: English
Series Title: Records of the Special Boards of Inquiry in District No. 4 (Philadelphia), compiled 08/28/1893-11/16/1909
Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004
Record Group Number: Record Group 85
ARC Identifier: 4483061
Archive Roll: 1
Volume: Volume 2 Apr 2, 1895 - Sep 27, 1895

They were detained for 2 days pending investigation. It confirms he did indeed have $1,000. They were held because they had no friends, relatives or address to go to. They were released when it was confirmed he had a railroad order to New York and an offer of work as an elevator man in an hotel and Annie an offer of kitchen work.

Carolyn, is that your tree on ancestry that has all of this info?

I would suspect that his first wife Susan "remarried" as per this 1901:

SMITH, Ephraim Head Married M 29 1872 Carter At Brick Works Norton Stourbridge, Worcestershire
SMITH, Susan Wife Married F 33 1868 Stourbridge, Worcestershire
BINGHAM, Daisy Step Daughter F 12 1889 Stourbridge, Worcestershire
SMITH, Renda Daughter F 1 1900 Stourbridge, Worcestershire
SMITH, Mary Ann Daughter F 0 (8 MOS) 1901 Stourbridge, Worcestershire

Piece: 2753 Folio: 54 Page: 7
Registration District: Stourbridge
Civil Parish: Stourbridge

Address: 2-14, Court, Mount Street, Stourbridge County: Worcestershire

Looks a possible for his first marriage:

MarriageFinder: Jeremiah Bingham married Susannah Chance
Name: BINGHAM, Jeremiah
Registration district: Stourbridge
County: Worcestershire
Year of registration: 1888
Quarter of registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
Spouse's last name: Not available before 1912
Volume no: 6C
Page no: 232

Name: CHANCE, Susannah
Registration district: Stourbridge
County: Worcestershire
Year of registration: 1888
Quarter of registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
Spouse's last name: Not available before 1912
Volume no: 6C
Page no: 232

Need some feedback from Carolyn.

If Jeremiah left first wife Susan behind and then later married Sarah Jane Egginton then who is the Annie that he arrived in the US with? Where did he get $1000?

Where are any of them on the 1900 US?

Another record for him.

Britain: outbound passenger lists leaving UK 1890-1960 - person transcript
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Name: Jerry BINGHAM
Date of departure: 26 July 1902
Port of departure: Southampton
Destination port: New York
Destination country: USA
Date of Birth: 1869 (calculated from age)
Age: 33
Marital Status: Married
Sex: Male
Occupation: Die Maker
Notes:
Passenger recorded on: Page 8 of 17
The following people with the same last name travelled on this voyage: -
Anne BINGHAM
Age: 29

Marital status: Married

Sex: Female

Occupation: Wife

Ship: PHILADELPHIA
Official Number:
Master's name: A Runels
Steamship Line:
Where bound: New York, USA
Square feet: 11772
Registered tonnage: 4598
Passengers on voyage: 779


and



California, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1957 about Jeremiah Bingham
Name: Jeremiah Bingham
Arrival Date: 19 Feb 1930
Age: 61
Birth Date: abt 1869 Apr 7
Birthplace: Bermingham, England
Gender: Male
Ship Name: Malolo
Port of Arrival: San Francisco
Port of Departure: Honolulu, Hawaii
Archive information (series:roll number): M1410:259


with Sarah 57, b 17 Sept 1873, b Bermingham. Both naturalised 2 Apr 1915 in Court of Common Pleas, Lucas Co. Ohio.

Good find Alviegal!

1900 United States Federal Census about Jerry Bingham
Name: Jerry Bingham
Age: 31
Birth Date: Apr 1869
Birthplace: England
Home in 1900: Milwaukee Ward 2, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Race: White
Gender: Male
Immigration Year: 1894
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Anna Bingham
Marriage Year: 1895
Years Married: 5
Father's Birthplace: England
Mother's Birthplace: England
Occupation: Machinist

Household Members:
Name Age
Jerry Bingham 31
Anna Bingham 27
Francis Hickocks 35 - lodger

U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 about Jeremiah Bingham
Name: Jeremiah Bingham
Gender: Male
Residence Year: 1923
Residence Place: Toledo, Ohio
Occupation: President-Treasurer of The Bingham Stamping and Tool Co h1141 W Woodruff Ave.
Spouse: Sarah J Bingham
Publication Title: Toledo, Ohio, City Directory, 1923


At the same company is Esther, sten(ographer), Sarah J, sec(retary) Both Binghams.





1930 United States Federal Census about Jeremiah Bingham
Name: Jeremiah Bingham
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1870
Birthplace: England
Race: White
Home in 1930: Toledo, Lucas, Ohio
Map of Home: View Map
Marital Status: Married
Immigration Year: 1886
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Sarah Jane Bingham
Father's Birthplace: England
Mother's Birthplace: England
Occupation:

Education:

Military service:

Rent/home value:

Age at first marriage:

Parents' birthplace:

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Household Members:
Name Age
Jeremiah Bingham 60
Sarah Jane Bingham 57
Edith May Bingham 23
Lucy Laux 27
Immigration Year: 1927
Relation to Head of House: Servant
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: Germany

Ohio, Births and Christenings Index, 1800-1962 about Edith M. Bingham
Name: Edith M. Bingham
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Place: Toledo, Lucas, Ohio
Birth Date: 15 Sep 1906
Father's Name: Jerry Bingham
Mother's Name: Sarah Eggleton
FHL Film Number: 909021



Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1956 about Edith May Bingham
Name: Edith May Bingham
Arrival Date: Sep 1913
Port of Arrival: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ship Name: Corsican
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Age: 7
Birth Date: 15 Sep 1906
Birth Place: Ohio
Birth Country: USA
Gender: Female
Record Type: Manifests
Line Number: 8


Also sister Esther Lilian, b 11 Aug 1904, NY. 41 yr old ??? is also travelling but she has been crossed out as it says she has been entered twice. She was naturalised in Evanston, Indiana in June 1911. Address for them all is Toledo, Ohio.



Bingham Esther L Aug 11 1904 36317 Manhattan

Have found several US newspaper articles mentioning Jeremiah (mainly sport related as it seems he was a sponsor).

Will send to Carolyn if she's interested.

ADDED: In 1934 Jeremiah and wife Sarah were the subject of a $½m lawsuit by their former son in law David Prior who had been divorced by their daughter Esther.

29 Mar 1938 Jeremiah died in Miami Florida at his winter residence.

Marie,
Jeremiah Bingham was my husbands grandfather. Most everything I know
is correct and entered on my tree.
Annie Bingham was the nickname of Sarah Jane Bingham. The marriage of Jeremiah to Susannah or Susan was a surprise. No one knew about another marriage.Would there be a divorce notice?
I am surmising that Jeremiahs parents are Joseph and Hanna. I do know that his brothers and sisters in all the cenus are correct.
I cannot find any info on Sarah's family Eggenton. I know she had a sister Edith and maybe another sister Polly and brother Jack or John. I am not sure about them.
Some of her relatives went to Australia--NSW and Canada-Ottawa or Ontario.
Jeremiah and Sarah were outdoor lovers and especially Jeremiah. He went all over the world hunting and fishing and also a brilliant business man.

If you could I would like the articles on his fishing trips and also the article about
the lawsuit for 1/2 million by Pryor. That is a true story.

Would like to know if I am on the right track with Bingham as parents of Jeremiah Bingham.

Thank you again and if I can help, let me know

Marie,
Jeremiah Bingham was my husbands grandfather. Most everything I know
is correct and entered on my tree.
Annie Bingham was the nickname of Sarah Jane Bingham. The marriage of Jeremiah to Susannah or Susan was a surprise. No one knew about another marriage.Would there be a divorce notice?
I am surmising that Jeremiahs parents are Joseph and Hanna. I do know that his brothers and sisters in all the cenus are correct.
I cannot find any info on Sarah's family Eggenton. I know she had a sister Edith and maybe another sister Polly and brother Jack or John. I am not sure about them.
Some of her relatives went to Australia--NSW and Canada-Ottawa or Ontario.
Jeremiah and Sarah were outdoor lovers and especially Jeremiah. He went all over the world hunting and fishing and also a brilliant business man.

If you could I would like the articles on his fishing trips and also the article about
the lawsuit for 1/2 million by Pryor. That is a true story.

Would like to know if I am on the right track with Bingham as parents of Jeremiah Bingham.

Thank you again and if I can help, let me know

Hi Carolyn, I've checked all available on-line divorce records and there is no mention of one for Jeremiah. I've also checked the newspaper archives, just in case. I doubt that it was annulled because they'd already had daughter Daisy by 1891.

Divorce was extremely rare and very difficult to obtain so I would expect that they didn't. It wasn't unusual at all really for people to separate and take new partners for that reason.

I've also been unable to find any record of a marriage between Jeremiah and Sarah Jane, unless it happened in the US and the record isn't on-line.

The only Jeremiah Binghams that were on the census records for that area at the time were the one posted on the census above (which as you say the siblings names are correct) and one born in 1878 - I've tracked that one and he doesn't appear to have left England. Plus, the occupation on the passenger lists matches Jeremiah's on the 1891 census.

Jeremiah's birth date of 7 April 1869 on the Californian passenger lists corresponds to the June quarter on this birth registration:

Births Jun 1869
Bingham Jeremiah Stourbridge 6c 153

You could always order a copy of the birth certificate to check out the actual birth date and parent's names.

I think this is Edith with family in 1901:

EGGINTON, Prudence Head Widow F 50 1851 Burslem, Staffordshire
EGGINTON, Henry Son Single M 30 1871 Puddler Ironworks Brierley Hill, Staffordshire
EGGINTON, Sam Son Single M 27 1874 Puddler Ironworks Brierley Hill, Staffordshire
EGGINTON, Thomas Son Single M 20 1881 Puddler Ironworks Brierley Hill, Staffordshire
EGGINTON, John Son Single M 13 1888 Brierley Hill, Staffordshire
EGGINTON, Edith Daughter Single F 11 1890 Brierley Hill, Staffordshire
EGGINTON, Prudence Daughter Single F 10 1891 Brierley Hill, Staffordshire

Piece: 2761 Folio: 65 Page: 31
Registration District: Stourbridge
Civil Parish: Brierley Hill (Stafford)

Address: 46, Albion Street, Brierley Hill (Stafford), Brierley Hill County: Worcestershire

1891 (It's one of those surnames that confounded enumerators!)

EGGINGTON, Samuel Head Married M 45 1846 Iron Worker Brierley Hill, Staffordshire
EGGINGTON, Prudence Wife Married F 40 1851 Burslem, Staffordshire
EGGINGTON, Henry Son Single M 20 1871 Iron Worker Brierley Hill, Staffordshire
EGGINGTON, Samuel Son Single M 17 1874 Iron Worker Brierley Hill, Staffordshire
EGGINGTON, Mary Daughter Single F 13 1878 Brierley Hill, Staffordshire
EGGINGTON, Thomas Son Single M 10 1881 Brierley Hill, Staffordshire
EGGINGTON, John Thos Single M 3 1888 Brierley Hill, Staffordshire
EGGINGTON, Edith Daughter Single F 1 1890 Brierley Hill, Staffordshire
EGGINGTON Daughter Single F 0 (1M) 1891 Brierley Hill, Staffordshire

Piece: 2309 Folio: 117 Page: 22
Registration District: Stourbridge
Civil Parish: Kingswinford

Address: 46, Albion Street, Kingswinford, Brierley Hill County: Worcestershire

(Polly was highly likely the nickname for Mary)