Emma Nye 1837|KWJ4-KJ3,KWV7-4G5
EMMA NYE was born in London England 28 Sep 1837 to JOHN NYE and CHARLOTTE OSBORNE. As a laborer, when the gold mines in Australia were discovered, JOHN took his family to Victoria, Australia about 1851. and from there to California about 1859.
1860 Census - San Joaquin Co., CA: Elkhorn Twp., p. 131, 940/951 [age 22; b. ENG].
John Nye 54 (1806) Eng
Charlotte 43 (1817) Eng
John 24 (1836) Eng 28 Oct 1835
Emma 22 (1838) Eng 28 Sep 1837
James 19 (1841) Eng 21 Apr 1840
Charles 17 (1843) Eng 17 Dec 1842
Ephraim 15 (1845) Eng 6 Aug 1845
Stephen 11 (1849) Eng 21 Feb 1849
Osborn 7 (1853 Australia 4 Dec 1853
Louisa 2 (1858) Australia
EMMA md GEORGE WILSON, a veterinarian, in Australia about 1857. [My son and I searched in Australia for a marriage to GEORGE THOMAS WILSON and were unable to find it. We are convinced that they were never legally married, we think that GEORGE convinced her they were married in polygamy, but he was still married to NANCY HACKNEY while he was traveling with the NYE family /(JANICE LUTZ 24 Dec 2009) They had a daughter EMMA LOUISA 1858. The 1860 census indicates GEORGE WILSON was not with them and they weren’t using the name WILSON. They left Sacramento about 1 Aug 1860 and arrived later in the year in East Weber, Utah
EMMA NYE married ERASTUS BINGHAM in the Endowment House 13 Dec 1862. [see nfs ordinances for ERASTUS KWJ4-KJ3] They had a son WARNER BINGHAM born 13 Dec 1863 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. (There are some records in nfs indicating that LUCINDA GATES was his mother. LUCINDA was 66 when he was born, which removes her as a viable possibility of being his mother.)
The 1870 census shows ERASTUS and EMMA with her daughter EMMA LOUISA and their son WARNER.
1870 Census - Weber Co., UT: Slaterville, p. 9 [521], 60/60 [age 32; b. ENG].
Erastus Bingham 72 Utah (1798)
Emma 33 Eng (1837)
Emma L 12 Australia (1858)
Warren (Warner) 7 Utah (1863)
Osborn Nye 16 Australia (1854)
This census doesn’t explain the relations, but the 1880 census shows EMMA and lists WARNER as her “son.”
1880 Census - Weber Co., UT: Ogden, E.D. 96, p. 19 [412C], 167/185 [milliner & dress maker] [age 43; b. ENG]
Emma Nye Bingham 43 Eng (1837)
Warner 17 Utah (1863) son
Her brother EPHRAIM H. NYE wrote in his journal "During the summer of 1877 my sister Mrs. EMMA BINGHAM obtained a divorce from her husband Father ERASTUS BINGHAM. The immediate cause of taking this course or the reason why does not appear unless it was the old gentleman refused to be bossed around by her, as she has developed an extraordinary disposition to domineer over everyone, imagining herself to be some great personage, claiming to have revelations from departed spirits and visitations from the spirits of her dead ancestors.
“She always has been a great dreamer and in her dreams was always the heroine, the great grand and leading personage, while all the rest of her father's family figured as mere serfs, slaves etc. She affected to believe that her mother was not in fact her mother, and has had the audacity to tell her mother so, claiming that she came through more noble linage and must have been changed in the cradle during babyhood. All of this together with her trifling quarrelsome and overbearing disposition has led to an estrangement between her mother and brothers on the one side and herself on the other.
“When she obtained her divorce she left Ogden, quietly stole away, just saying to mother she was going to New Mexico. She took her son and daughter and son-in-law.”
Family sheets we have list her death in 1896 in Pima, Graham, Arizona. In looking at death records and cemetery records in the area, we have found no documentation for her death information.
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