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Nancy Fish was the daughter of a cotton mill owner and the second wife of P. T. Barnum, the famous showman and entrepreneur. She married two other men after Barnum's death and lived in Europe as a baroness until her death in 1927.
Nancy Fish is an American actress born in 1938 in Spokane, Washington. She has appeared in movies such as The Mask, The Exorcist III and Sudden Impact, and TV shows such as The X-Files and NewsRadio.
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Dec 6, 2021 · Learn about the secret marriage of P.T. Barnum and Nancy Fish, his young English friend, after his first wife's death. Discover how they were a happy couple and how they contributed to Barnum's legacy.
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Nancy Fish is an American actress who appeared in The Mask, The Exorcist III and Sudden Impact. She was born in 1938 in Spokane, Washington, and has a daughter, Natasha Silver, who is also an actress.
- March 16, 1938
- Who Was Nancy Fish?
- Nancy Fish’s Family
- Other Facts About P.T. Barnum’s Wife
P.T. Barnum’s second wife was born as Nancy Alexandry Orengiani in the industrial city of Blackburn, Lancashire, England on 22nd April 1850 to her parents Martha Shaw and John Fish. Nancy Fish was the second child of three born to her parents. Nancy Fish’s ethnicity and nationality, she was a British-American citizen. Though much is not known about...
Nancy Fish was the second daughter of her parents, Martha Shaw and John Fish. She was raised together with her two siblings in Lancashire and their names are; Jane Fish, born in 1846 and John Fish, born in 1861 and died in 1914. Her father was an educated and fulfilled businessman who owned a few number of cotton mills in Lancashire. Nancy’s father...
1. Nancy Fish’s marriage to P.T. Barnum
Nancy Fish wedded with P.T. Barnum twice. She got acquainted with P. T. Barnum through her father who was P.T. Barnum’s close pal and it was reported that the duo had been in a relationship before the death of P.T. Barnum’s first wife, Charity Barnum on 19th November 1873. However, the greatest showman wrote in his autobiography that they were in constant communication through writing and that Nancy Fish used to accompany him to some of his European tours. Soon after the death of his first wi...
2. Nancy Fish’s Relationship with Demetrius Callias Bey
Four years after the death of her husband, Nancy Fish exchanged marital vows again with Demetrius Callias Bey in a secret wedding held at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, New York officiated by Fr. Agatheodoro Papageorgopoulos. The two lovebirds met when Callias got hold of Nancy after falling off the Great Pyramid during her visit to Egypt. Their great love life was short-lived as Callias died barely after one year of their marriage on the 22nd of September, 1896 from a liver-related ailm...
3. Nancy Fish’s Third Marriage
P.T. Barnum’s widow remarried again. This time to a French baron named Lucien Hippolyte Ferdinand. Their marriage was a contract one being that Nancy Fish paid off the baron’s debt in order to become a baroness.
Feb 6, 2023 · Learn about the history and significance of Nancy Fish Barnum's banjo, a musical treasure connected to P.T. Barnum's second wife. Watch the video by Adrienne Saint-Pierre, the Curator at the Barnum Museum, and explore the role of the banjo in 19th-century America.
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Nancy Fish Barnum Callias D'Orengiani, Baroness (née Fish; 22 April 1850 – 23 June 1927) was an English socialite, daughter of a successful cotton miller and the second wife of P. T. Barnum, 40 years her senior.
