Ancestry of
P.T. Barnum

Co-Founder of Barnum & Bailey Circus

Mary -----

View famous kin of Mary -----

• • 4th Great-grandmother of P.T. Barnum — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 113 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
  •  
  • Birth Date:
  •  
  • Birth Location:
  •  
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  • AFT 6 Jan 1693/1694 
  • Death Location:
  •  
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  •  
  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Sherwood
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1638 
  • Marriage Location:
  •  
  • Children:
  
  

  Stephen Sherwood

  Mary Sherwood

  Ruth Sherwood

  Isaac Sherwood (Ahnentafel No:56 )

  • Notes: 

  • Claims that Mary's maiden name was Fitch might be due to confusion with the Mary Fitch who was her son Matthew's wife.

• Additional marriages for Mary -----

  ---

  • Spouse:
  • John Banks
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Jun 1658

• Sources for Mary -----

  • ¹ Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, pp. 548-549.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 308.
  • ³ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 1992, Vol. 25, p. 219.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 94.