Ancestry of
P.T. Barnum

Co-Founder of Barnum & Bailey Circus

Thomas Sherwood

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of P.T. Barnum — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 112 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1586 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 21 Jul 1655 to 7 Sep 1655 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1638 
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  Stephen Sherwood

  Mary Sherwood

  Ruth Sherwood

  Isaac Sherwood (Ahnentafel No:56 )

• Additional marriages for Thomas Sherwood

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  • Spouse:
  • Alice Tiler
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1611

• Sources for Thomas Sherwood

  • ¹ Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, pp. 548-549.
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1988, Vol. 5, p. 21.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1936, Vol. 13, p. 142.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 304.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 304-312.
  • ⁶ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 1992, Vol. 25, p. 219.
  • ⁷ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Family History of Central New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1912), 108.
  • ⁸ Jacobus, Donald Lines, ed., The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, Woodstock, Vermont: N. Grier Parke, II (1960), 54.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 94.