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Tom Thumb

Dwarf Circus Performer

William Beardsley

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Tom Thumb — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 208 
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  • ABT 1605 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 28 Sep 1660 to 6 Jul 1661 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Harvey
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Jan 1631/1632 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England 
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  Mary Beardsley

  Joseph Beardsley

  Samuel Beardsley (Ahnentafel No:104 )

  Hannah Beardsley

• Sources for William Beardsley

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1890, Vol. 44, p. 209.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1992, Vol. 146, p. 34.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1998, Vol. 152, p. 170.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 24.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 233.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 222-227.
  • ⁷ Beardsley, Isaac Haight, Genealogical History of the Beardsley-lee Family in America, Denver, Colorado: John Dove, Printer and Publisher (1902), 17-20.
  • ⁸ Orcutt, Rev. Samuel, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Part II, New Haven, Connecticut: Press of Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor (1886), 1130.
  • ⁹ Seymour, Thomas Day, The Family of the Rev. Jeremiah Day of New Preston to January 1, 1900: A Genealogical Appendix to . . ., New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co. (1900), 6.