Ancestry of
P.T. Barnum

Co-Founder of Barnum & Bailey Circus

Josiah Starr

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of P.T. Barnum — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 40 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Starr 
  • Mother:
  • Rachel -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Sep 1657 
  • Birth Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Jan 1715/1716 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Wooster Street Cemetery, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Rebekah -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1683 
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  • Child:

  John Starr (Ahnentafel No:20 )

• Sources for Josiah Starr

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/04/2018).
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1986, Vol. 61, p. 217.
  • ³ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2012, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 167-171.
  • ⁴ 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.
  • ⁵ 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), 5, 267-269.