Is cathode rays and electrons same?

We know that electrons are those subatomic particles which are negatively charged and revolves around the nucleus. The charge carried by a single electron is 1.6x 10^-19 C and the mass of an electron is 9.1 x 10^-31 kg. The electrons are very very tiny in shapes and it was impossible to measure it's weight by any physical balance methods . Scientists runs many experiment to calculate the charge and the mass of an electron and got succeeded by different experimental methods.  

Before discovery of electrons J.J Thompson studied about the nature of cathode rays in discharge tube . He found that the ray travel in a straight line and cast shadow like the light. Cathode rays also shows the heating effect. Cathode rays shows deflection from its original path when it passes through electric and magnetic field and it deflect away from negative charge towards the positive charged pole. It shows that cathode rays are negatively charge particles coming out from cathode. In discharge tube cathode rays travel extremely fast due to the higher potential difference. This cathode rays always shows same properties irrespective to the nature of gas present inside the discharge tube. Cathode rays are later named as an electrons by Johnstone Stony during his studies on electrolytic conduction.