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I saw a blog,
day before yesterday, off of your site that
stated that the 'circassian beauties' that
PT Barnum hired to be in his side show/s
were a hoax. I already knew that. The blog
also gave the
real name of one of the 'circassian
beauties'. I asked the blogger if they
could tell me the real name
of Zalumma Agra who is my maternal great
grandmother. My problem is that they may
not contact me
because I don't know how to become a
blogger. I did put up a blogging site
called, Circassian, but I
am not sure if it will work because it asked
for my
Yahoo.com address. I don't have one.
My address
is Hotmail.
For some reason Zalumma used her stage name
when she married my great grandfather John
M.(Murdoch) Bruce, Ice Dealer, of
Pittsburgh, PA. She was married in 1874,
and had Robert Dale BD 4 March 1875, DD
1951; Mary and John Henry (my grandfather)BD
27 July 1877; Daisy and John Murdoch BD 1
July 1879 ( Daisy died at the age of 8
months and is buried in Allegheny Cemetery
in Pittsburgh. There is no record of Mary's
death. Everybody and his brother who can
prove that they are descendants of Rev.
Robert Bruce are buried in the family plot
at Allegheny Cemetery. Zalumma gave birth
to two sets of fraternal twins. There is no
other recording of fraternal twins in my
Bruce genealogy. I am using the fraternal
twins idea to search the 1860 US Census for
New York City page by page through Heritage
Quest to try and find her family. The 1880
US Census for Pittsburgh shows that she was
born in 1851. It also shows that both
parents were from Turkey-carrying the ruse
right through her whole Pittsburgh life.
Sometime around 1885 Zalumma divorced John
M. Sr. From a remark made by a Bruce
relative now in her 96th or 97th year who
knew John M., I have reason to believe that
he was not a very pleasant person. There is
an article in the New York Times dated 1889
below tells of how Zalumma came back to
Pittsburgh in November 1889, met her three
sons on their way to school and enticed John
Murdoch
to leave with her. There is also an article
in a Pittsburgh paper, dated in 1889, but I
have yet to see it.
I have searched for John M./Murdoch Bruce
through the 1930 US Census. I believe that
Zalumma used her real name and changed my
great uncle's name so that her ex-husband
could not find them.
Have a great day and thanks for your help.
Tom
Tom I will post
this information on Sideshow World to see if
anyone can provide further information for
you.
Please contact us
here if you have any information.
Thanks John Robinson Sideshow World
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NY Times November 21, 1889
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