Master Surname Index




P.T. Barnum

Ancestry of
P.T. Barnum

Co-Founder of Barnum & Bailey Circus


    Jonathan Starr

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    • Great-grandfather of P.T. Barnum — 4th Generation
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    • prob. Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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    • ABT 1751 
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  • Sources for Jonathan Starr

    • 1 Cutter, William Richard, ed., New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volume 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 1100.
    • 2 Orcutt, Rev. Samuel, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Part II, New Haven, Connecticut: Press of Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor (1886), 1119.
    • 4 Starr, Burgis Pratt, A History of the Starr Family of New England, from the Ancestor, Dr. Comfort Starr, of Ashford, County of Kent . . ., Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co. (1879), 304, 328-329.