Ancestry of General
Tom Thumb
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- Father of Tom Thumb — 2nd Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 2
- Father:
- Seth Sherwood Stratton
- Mother:
- Amy Sharp
- Birth Date:
- ABT 1811
- Birth Location:
- Connecticut
- Christening Date:
- Christening Location:
- Death Date:
- 29 Dec 1855
- Death Location:
- Burial Date:
- Burial Location:
- Mountain Grove Cemetery and Mausoleum, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut
- Spouse Name:
- Cynthia Thompson
- Marriage Date:
- 26 May 1833
- Marriage Location:
- New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut
- Child:
Charles Sherwood Stratton (Ahnentafel No:1 )
Sherwood Edward Stratton
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Sources for Sherwood Edward Stratton
- 1 Federal Census, CT, Fairfield County, 1850, Bridgeport, Image 30 of 31.
- 2 Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/21/2019).
- 3 Louisiana, New Orleans Passenger Lists, 1820-1945, Immigration record for Sherwood E Stratton.
- 4 Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Middleborough, Vol. 347, p. 330, Death record for son Charles S Stratton.
- 5 NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1988, Vol. 5, p. 21.
- 6 New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 7, p. 1765.
- 7 New Haven, CT: Vital Records, 1649-1850, Vol. 1, p. 556, Marriage record for Sherman [sic] Stratten and Cynthia Thompson.
- 8 United States Marriages, Connecticut Marriages, Marriage record for Sherman [sic] Stratten and Cynthia Thompson.
- 9 Holt, Nellie Beardsley and Charles Eleazer Holt, Beardsley Genealogy: The Family of William Beardsley, One of the First Settlers of Connecticut, West Hartford, Connecticut: n. p. (1951), 28.
- 10 Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 94.
- 11 Sharpe, W. C., History of Seymour, Connecticut, with Biographies and Genealogies, Seymour, Connecticut: Record Print (1879), 208-209.
- 12 Stratton, Harriet Russell, A Book of Strattons: Being a Collection of Stratton Records from England and Scotland, and a Genealogical . . ., Vol. 2, New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, Genealogical Publisher (1918), 315, 319.
- 13 Wikipedia, "General Tom Thumb", (accessed 01/03/2015).