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P.T. Barnum

Ancestry of
P.T. Barnum

Co-Founder of Barnum & Bailey Circus


    Jeffrey Ferris

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    • 5th Great-grandfather of P.T. Barnum — 8th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 216 
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    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1604 
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    • Death Date:
    • 31 May 1666 
    • Death Location:
    • Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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    • Peter Ferris (Ahnentafel No:108 )

      Joseph Ferris

      Mary Ferris

      John Ferris

      James Ferris

    • Notes: 
    • Jeffrey Ferris's first wife's name is unknown. Her death is recorded in the Stamford town records simply as "Jeffery, his w. [_____], d. 5th mo. 31, [16]58." Claims that she is Mary Anne Howard need evidence to support this.

  • Additional marriages for Jeffrey Ferris


    • Spouse:
    • Susanna Norman
    • Marriage Date:
    • ABT 1659

    • Spouse:
    • Judith Feake
    • Marriage Date:
    • ABT 1662

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  • Sources for Jeffrey Ferris

    • 1 Biographical History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. 2, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1899), 854.
    • 2 Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County: Connecticut, Containing Biographical Sketches of . . ., Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co. (1899), 516.
    • 3 Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 5, p. 141.
    • 4 Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 8, p. 756.
    • 8 Ferris, James S., A Ferris Genealogy, Volume 2, Coronado, California: n. p. (1980), Profile 1.
    • 9 Holden, Frederic A., and E. Dunbar Lockwood, Descendants of Robert Lockwood: Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630, Philadelphia: Printed privately by the family (1889), 2-7.
    • 10 McComb, Virginia Mary, Kemper Records (1946): A Supplement to The Kemper Family (1899), Chambersburg, Pennsylvania: n.p. (1946), 126.
    • 11 Prindle, Paul W., Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke), New Orleans, Louisiana: Polyanthos, Inc. (1976), 118-129.
    • 12 Reynolds, Marion H., The History and Descendants of John and Sarah Reynolds [1630?-1923] of Watertown, Mass. and . . ., Brooklyn, New York: The Reynolds Family Association (1924), 31.