Thomas Percy Bingham

±1856 —
A brief biography

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Thomas Percy Bingham ±1856 —
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Julia Sophia Grossmann 1858 —   Claud Dewhurst Bingham 1884 —   Josephine Elizabeth Julia Bingham 1886 — 1891   Melita Hannah Bingham 1886 — 1976   Thomas Percy Bingham 1890 — 1966   Beatrice Mary Bingham ±1892 — 1981   Lorna Aline Bingham 1893 — 1985   Julia Sophia Bingham 1900 — 1972  

Thomas Percy Bingham


Born around 1856, the nineteenth year of the reign of Queen Victoria.  He has 13 direct descendants in the family.

The Pacific & Orient


Thomas was a Purser on the P&O Line and spent much of his career working on ships travelling to Asia.
The family moved to Melbourne Australia where Julia Sophia already had aunts living there.

THE OTHER PANAMA CANAL

In 1896 Thomas, Julia and their six children moved to Greytown in Nicaragua where the canal was to be built connecting the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
They had no adequate schools there so Julia schooled the children herself. She spoke French, Catalan and Spanish.

The canal project failed and got built in Panama instead, and eventually the family moved to Managua, the capital of Nicaragua.


Delapidated dredges in Greytown

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