Matthew Starr Barnum Sr. (1764 - 1821)

Born 27 Dec 1764 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Starr) Barnum — married 17 Oct 1784 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Descendants

Died 1 Mar 1821 at age 56 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

This profile is part of the Barnum Name Study.

Birth

27 DEC 1764

The Barnum Family, 1517-1904' gives a birth date of 17 Dec 1464, an obvious typographical error; 'The Barnum Family, 1350-1907' provides a date of 17 Dec 1764.^[1]

The Genealogical Record of the Barnum Family calls him Matthew Starr Barnum. He was married to both Mary Starr and Rhoda Starr, his grandmother was Mehetabel Starr and he had a son named Matthew Starr Barnum. According to Burgess Starr, he was a farmer in Bethel, Connecticut and "was drowned on his way to church in D." (probably Danbury) in February 1821.

According to the Genealogical & Family History of Southern New York, Matthew, son of Matthew and Jane (Dibble) Barnum, resided in Bethel, and married Rhoda Star. His property was valued in the grand list of 1793 at £37, 2s, 6p.

Marriage

17 Oct 1784 Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut

Death

1 MAR 1821 Windham, Windham, Connecticut

Burial

Congregational Church Cemetery, Bethel, Fairfield, Connecticut (Find A Grave)

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74V-PLZ

• Find A Grave: Memorial #21148614
• Starr, Burgis Pratt. A History of the Starr Family of New England (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Conn., 1879) Page 429.
• Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River (Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913)
• Barnum, Eben Lewis. & Barnum, Francis. Genealogical Record of the Barnum Family Presenting a Conspectus of the Male Descendants of Thomas Barnum, 1625-1695 (Meals Printing Co., Gardner, Mass., 1912)
• Barnum, Noah G., The Barnum Family, 1350-1907 (Privately Printed, Albion, NY, 1907)
• Barnum, Noah G., The Barnum Family, 1517-1904 (Privately Printed, Albion, NY, 1904)
• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - White, Lorraine Cook, ed. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1994-2002) Vol. Danbury, Page 11 & Page 102.
• Jessup, Harlan R., Bethel, CT Baptisms 1760-1830 & Deaths 1843-1844, from Congregational Church Records, Connecticut Ancestry (Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Stamford, Conn., Feb 1997) Vol. 39, No. 3, Page 117. Baptism record.