Dunham (surname)

USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109) at Naval Station Norfolk

Cyrus Livingston Dunham: U.S. Representative from Indiana

Dunham is a surname of English origins and may refer to:

• Ann Dunham, Anthropologist, mother of Barack Obama
• Archie W. Dunham, former President and Chief Executive Officer of Conoco Inc., and Horatio Alger Award recipient
• Cyrus Livingston Dunham, American Civil War Colonel, U.S. Representative from Indiana
• Deacon John Dunham, Prominent early American settler, Deputy in the Legislative Assembly of the Plymouth Colony
• Jason L. Dunham, United States Marine Corps Corporal awarded the Medal of Honor by President George W. Bush posthumously, for whom the United States Navy destroyer USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109) is named
• Jeff Dunham, American ventriloquist and comedian
• Jeremiah Dunham Botkin, U.S. Representative from Kansas
• Jonathan Singletary Dunham, Member of the New Jersey Provincial Congress, President Barack Obama’s eighth great-grandfather, and the first of Obama’s ancestors to be born in North America
• Katherine Dunham, American choreographer
• Sir Kingsley Charles Dunham, British geologist
• Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham and Stanley Armour Dunham, Grandparents of President Barack Obama that raised him in Honolulu, Hawaii
• Mark Wentworth Dunham, known for the introduction and breeding of Percheron horses in America
• Mike Dunham, American ice hockey player
• Ransom W. Dunham, U.S. Representative from Illinois
• William Riley Dunham, member of the Indiana General Assembly, and great-great-great uncle of President Barack Obama

In fiction

• Olivia Dunham, FBI agent on TV series Fringe

History

Dunham Massey Hall, UK.

Great Dunham (Norfolk) St Andrew's Church, UK.

Variations in spelling of surname Dunham are found across England, including: in Kent County, Denhams; in Devonshire and Nottingham, Douhams; in Norfolk, Downham; and in Dorsetshire, Dynham.^[1]

In 1630, Deacon John Dunham emigrated from England and became a deputy in the Legislative Assembly elected to represent the Plymouth Colony.^[2][3]

See also

Places

• Dunham Castle, Greater Manchester, England
• Great Dunham, village situated in the Breckland District of Norfolk, England
• Dunham Massey, Greater Manchester, England
• Dunham Town, Greater Manchester, England
• Dunham-on-the-Hill, Cheshire, England
• Dunham, Nottinghamshire, England
• Dunham, Quebec, Canada
• Dunham Castle at Oaklawn Farm, Dunham Woods Riding Club, Wayne, Illinois
• Jonathan Singletary Dunham House, built in the late 1600s in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey
• Dunham House outside of Kempton, Indiana

Others

• Dunham classification of carbonate sedimentary rocks
• USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109) an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy

References

1. ^ Isaac Watson Dunham (1907). Dunham Genealogy: English and American Branches of the Dunham Family. 
2. ^ Ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer (1968). Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England. 
3. ^ Anderson, Robert Charles (1995). The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633: Great Migration Study Project (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society.