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Amelia Bingham, nee Swilley, actress, b1869, Hicksville, OH

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Re: Amelia Bingham, nee Swilley, actress, b1869, Hicksville, OH

Posted: 21 Jan 2004 9:21AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 30 Apr 2005 7:36PM GMT
Surnames: LaChapelle, Barbeau, Periard, Prosper
Thanks for your reply. I have subsequently received information regarding Amelia, her marriage to Mr. Bingham, an actor, and her death in NYC. She is listed in some early lists of famous people. Apparently, John Swilley, father of Amelia and Ellen, ran a small hotel in Hicksville where the actor Bingham visited and "discovered" Amelia,
Much info on the Swilley family is available at the Defiance library, and through the county records, especially burials in the cemetery in Hicksville, as well as marriage and birth records. Both library and Connie at the records Office are most accommodating. Amelia may be the Isabel listed in 1870. ( I have found that birth dates for women of that period were often inaccurate, as they later shaved off a few yrs. as they grew older, thus I consider the earliest records more accurate, for who is going to fudge about the age of a child?)
The spelling of Swilly/Swilley varies.
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suelumb11 4 Jul 2001 5:16AM GMT 
SLumb9873 27 Jul 2001 4:03AM GMT 
Revae 21 Jan 2004 1:26AM GMT 
Suelumb321 21 Jan 2004 4:21PM GMT 
RevaeL 21 Jan 2004 4:27PM GMT 
Suelumb321 21 Jan 2004 4:45PM GMT 
janetbinghamfragapane 23 Jun 2004 10:21PM GMT 
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