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Stanley Ann Dunham, mother of Barack Obama

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

Ann Dunham, Anthropologist, mother of Barack Obama
Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham and Stanley Armour Dunham, Grandparents of President Barack Obama that raised him in Honolulu, Hawaii
James L. Ritchie-Dunham, American Psychologist
Jason Dunham, Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
Jeff Dunham, American ventriloquist and comedian
Katherine Dunham, American choreographer
Sir Kingsley Charles Dunham, British geologist
Mike Dunham, American ice hockey player

1 In fiction
2 History
- 2.1 See also
3 References

In fiction

Olivia Dunham, FBI agent on TV series Fringe

History

Dunham Massey Hall, 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]

References

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

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