Ancestry of General
Tom Thumb

Dwarf Circus Performer

Thankful Beardsley

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• • Great-grandmother of Tom Thumb — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 13 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Beardsley 
  • Mother:
  • Eunice Brown   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Mar 1748 
  • Birth Location:
  • Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Nov 1844 
  • Death Location:
  • West Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jeduthan Thompson
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1770 
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  • Child:

  Joseph Thompson (Ahnentafel No:6 )

• Additional marriages for Thankful Beardsley

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  • Spouse:
  • Titus Beecher
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 5 Jul 1779

• Sources for Thankful Beardsley

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stratford, p. 11, Birth record for Thankfull Beardsley.
  • ² New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 7, pp. 1753, 1765-1766.
  • ³ New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 1, p. 249.
  • ⁴ Beardsley, Isaac Haight, Genealogical History of the Beardsley-lee Family in America, Denver, Colorado: John Dove, Printer and Publisher (1902), 338.
  • ⁵ 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.