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Tom Thumb

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Tom Thumb

Dwarf Circus Performer


    Charles Sherwood Stratton

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    • 1st Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • Birth Date:
    • 4 Jan 1838 
    • Birth Location:
    • Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut 
    • Christening Date:
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    • Christening Location:
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    • Death Date:
    • 15 Jul 1883 
    • Death Location:
    • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
    • Burial Date:
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    • Burial Location:
    • Mountain Grove Cemetery and Mausoleum, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut 
    • Notes: 
    • aka General Tom Thumb

      General Tom Thumb was a dwarf circus performer for the Barnum & Bailey Circus.

  • Marriages for Charles Sherwood Stratton


    • Spouse:
    • Mercy Lavinia Bump
    • Marriage Date:
    • 10 Feb 1863
    • Marriage Location:
    • Grace Episcopal Church, New York, New York

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  • Sources for Charles Sherwood Stratton

    • 1 Federal Census, MA, Plymouth County, 1870, Middleborough, p. 60, Image 60 of 118.
    • 2 Federal Census, CT, Fairfield County, 1860, Bridgeport, p. 250, Image 250 of 333.
    • 3 Federal Census, MA, Plymouth County, 1880, Middleborough, E.D. 568, p. 32, Image 32 of 65.
    • 5 Louisiana, New Orleans Passenger Lists, 1820-1945, Immigration record for Gen. Tom Thumb.
    • 7 NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1988, Vol. 5, p. 21.
    • 9 Holt, Nellie Beardsley and Charles Eleazer Holt, Beardsley Genealogy: The Family of William Beardsley, One of the First Settlers of Connecticut, West Hartford, Connecticut: n. p. (1951), 28.
    • 10 Originally compiled by Harriet W. Hodge; Revised by Robert S. Wakefield and John Bradley Arthaud, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 21, Part 3, John Billington, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2018), 137.
    • 13 Sharpe, W. C., History of Seymour, Connecticut, with Biographies and Genealogies, Seymour, Connecticut: Record Print (1879), 209.
    • 14 Stratton, Harriet Russell, A Book of Strattons: Being a Collection of Stratton Records from England and Scotland, and a Genealogical . . ., Vol. 2, New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, Genealogical Publisher (1918), 319.