Ancestry of
Treat Williams

TV & Movie Actor

Richard Nicholls Barnum

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• • Great-grandfather of Treat Williams — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 14 
  • Father:
  • Charles W. Barnum 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Nicholls   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Apr 1876 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Oct 1929 
  • Death Location:
  • Riverside, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Marian Hutchison Cocks
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 May 1900 
  • Marriage Location:
  • St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, Kings, New York 
  • Child:

  Eleanor Barnum (Ahnentafel No:7 )

  • Notes: 

  • Served as a member of the U.S. Secret Service during WWI.

• Sources for Richard Nicholls Barnum

  • ¹ Brooklyn Life (Brooklyn, New York), 12 MAY 1900, p. 14, Wedding announcement for Richard N Barnum and Marian Hutchison Cocks.
  • ² Federal Census, NY, Nassau County, 1920, Hempstead, E.D. 39, Sheet 12B, Image 24 of 33.
  • ³ Federal Census, CT, Litchfield County, 1900, Salisbury, E.D. 251, Sheet 14B, Image 28 of 36.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/18/2019).
  • ⁵ New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Marriage Index, 1866-1937, Marriage record for Richard N Barnum.
  • ⁶ The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), 24 MAY 1900, p. 7, Wedding announcement for Richard N Barnum and Marian H Cocks.
  • ⁷ U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Draft registration for Richard Nicholls Barnum.
  • ⁸ Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014, Marriage certificate for Walter Peck Walbridge and daughter Eleanor Barnum Andrew.
  • ⁹ Chadwick, Earl Leslie, The Conservative Advocate: A Book of Biographies of Connecticut's Successful Men, Harford, Connecticut: The Transcript Press (1909), Biography of father Charles W. Barnum, gives Richard's birth date as 04 APR 1876.
  • ¹⁰ Phelps, Judge Oliver Seymour and Andrew T. Servin, The Phelps Family of America, and Their English Ancestors, with Copies of Wills, Deeds, Letters, and . . ., Vol. 2, Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Eagle Publishing Company (1899), 1092.
  • ¹¹ Yale University, Bulletin of Yale University: Obituary Record of Graduates Deceased During the Year Ending July 1, 1930, 278.

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