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GENEALOGICAL REFERENCES FOR MEMBERS OF THE DUNHAM FAMILY

#2330 - Gary Roger Dunham of Sugarland Texas
Line from Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth:
John ¹ Jonathan ² Jonathan ³ Gideon ⁴ James ⁵ Isaac ⁶ Luther W. ⁷ Alfred Gordon ⁸ Frederick Walter ⁹ Richard Frederick ¹⁰ Gary Roger ¹¹

Documentation:

John ¹ Dunham b. ca. 1589 in England ^[1]

d. 2 March 1668/9 Plymouth, Plymouth Co. MA ^[2]

m. second Abigail Ballou

Reference:
l. Anderson, Robert Charles, "The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620-1633" published by New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston 1995, Volume I:599-603.
2. Ibid.

Jonathan ² Dunham b. say 1625 in Leiden Holland ^[3]

d. 18 December 1717 in Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, Dukes Co. MA ^[4]

m. ¹ Mary Delano
m. ² Mary Cobb

Reference:
5. TAG 44:218-221.
6. Ibid.

Gideon ⁴ Dunham b. 6 March 1686/7 ^[7]

d. 27 April 1762 Southington, Hartford Co. CT ^[8]

m. ¹ Desire Case
m. ² Mary Lewis

Reference:
7. TAG 44:219. . Also, Banks, Charles Edward, "History of Martha’s Vineyard" pub. by the Dukes Co. Historical Society 1966, Vol. 3:155-6.
8. Will #1784, Ct. State Archives.

James ⁵ Dunham b. say 1720, probably in Southington, Hartford Co. Connecticut ^[9]

d. (year unknown) probably in Canaan, Litchfield Co. Connecticut ^[10]

m. Dinah Candee

Isaac ⁶ Dunham b. 23 February 1765 in Canaan, Litchfield Co. CT ^[11]

d. probably 20 October 1821, probably in Canaan CT ^[12]

m. ¹ Charlotte Lawrence who d. by 1800
m. ² (unknown)

NOTE: Another son of James ⁵ Dunham was:

Salathiel ⁶ b. 22 March 1753 pension appl. S12828, NY gives birth year as 1757
Both Salathiel ⁶ and William ⁷ who is son of Isaac ⁶ went to Tioga Co. NY.
Luther W. ⁷ Dunham is found on the census in Tioga Co. NY living near
Salathiel ⁶, however, research from the census records and land deeds indicate
that Luther W. ⁷ was probably a son of Isaac ⁶ and his second (unknown) wife,
and that he first went to Tioga Co. NY to live with his older half brother who
was William ⁷ Dunham who was born in 1787.

Luther W. ⁷ Dunham b. 19 October 1804 poss. in Northampton, Hampshire Co. MA ^[13]

d. about 1850 probably in Illinois ^[14]

m. Mary Jane Beard

Reference:
13. Copy of an insurance application in which parts of the (missing) Dunham family bible were transcribed and certified, in possession of Gary Roger & Jan E. Dunham.
14. The last child of Luther W. and Mary Jane (Beard) Dunham was Hulda Cornelia b. 22 November 1847 in Dryden, Tompkins Co. New York. Dunham (Mary Jane (Beard) Dunham) appears on the 1850 census in Winnebago County, Illinois under the Township of Butler, p. 365

Alfred Gordon ⁸ Dunham b. 28 July 1840 in Spencer, Tioga Co. NY ^[15]

d. 18 April 1910 in Guthrie, Logan Co. Oklahoma ^[16]

m. Fannie D. Healas

Richard Frederick ¹⁰ Dunham b. 9 December 1910 in Oklahoma City, OK ^[19]

d. 13 December 1991 in Houston Texas ^[20]

m. Acme Marie Spiva

Gary Roger ¹¹ Dunham b. 12 February 1936 in Houston, Harris Co. TX ^[21]

Still living.