Michael Pynn was born at Baker's Flat in 1860.
In his obituary, the Kapunda Herald (July 5 1929 p2), reported that Mickey was known from the late 1870s as the Australian Tom Thumb. It was toward the late seventies that General Tom Thumb, of England, visited Australia, and the tour of his little company included Kapunda. It was this circumstance that brought Micky Pynn into prominence, and later into almost world-wide notoriety. He made a career as a circus clown and travelled the world.
