Hannah

  General Notes:

'The Barnum Family, 1350-1907' calls her Hannah Hurd (while providing no source for that name) and also calls her the mother of only four of Thomas' children. All other available sources give her name as unknown and state that she was the mother of all ten of the children of Thomas. Some very-well-documented research by Ann Tappero indicates that her name probably was Hannah, but that Hurd almost certainly was not her surname. A family group record in the LDS archives, submitted in about 1942, shows the source for Hannah Hurd as 'The Families of Old Fairfield' by Donald Lines Jacobus. When that source is checked, with the page number given, it refers to Thomas Barnum but does not mention the name of any wife. This is just another illustration of the fact that poor or erroneous research tends to become self perpetuating. There's no substitute for original research!

  Noted events in her life were:

• Alt. Birth, 20 Sep 1640, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.

Hannah married Thomas Barnum, son of Sir Francis Barnham, Knight and The Honourable Elizabeth Lennard, in 1660 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. (Thomas Barnum was born in 1625 in Hollingbourne, , County Kent, England and died on 26 Dec 1695 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Alt. Marriage, 1662, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.