Ancestry of
P.T. Barnum

Co-Founder of Barnum & Bailey Circus

Bethia Holly

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of P.T. Barnum — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 53 
  • Father:
  • John Holly 
  • Mother:
  • Mary -----   
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Dec 1713 
  • Death Location:
  • Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jonas Weed Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Nov 1670 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Benjamin Weed

  Jonathan Weed (Ahnentafel No:26 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some published sources give Bethia Holly's death date as 24 DEC 1713, however the Stamford vital records give it as 29 DEC 1713.

• Sources for Bethia Holly

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stamford, p. 237, Marriage record for Jonas Weed and Bethiah Holly.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stamford, p. 230, Death record for Bethia Weed.
  • ³ Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, p. 290.
  • ⁴ New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 3, p. 1618, Marriage record for Jonas Weed and Bethia Holly.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1958.