October 14, 2011
Like many new immigrants of that era the Binghams relied on family connections in the U.S. to sponsor them for citizenship. In this case Ida Dunwell Bingham, Harold’s wife, discovered a cousin in Rockford, Illinois, named Robert Keye and a half-brother to her father, a half-uncle, if you will, named Edward Dunwell. Edward lived in […]
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October 14, 2010
In 1934 , at twenty-two, Harold Bingham and Ida Dunwell, then age 18, were married in a small chapel in Totley Rise, on the outskirts of Sheffield. In attendance were her grandmother Elizabeth and her father, Samuel Dunwell, Jr. Suffering from a rare form of senility, Ida’s mother was unable to attend. (Today she would […]
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