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Surname/tag: Shakespeare, Webb, Arden

Contents 1 Profiles 1.1 The Great Bard & His Wife 1.2 Children 1.3 Grandchildren 1.4 Parents 1.5 Siblings 1.6 Grandparents 1.7 Great Grandparents 1.8 Uncles 1.9 Aunts 1.10 First Cousins 2 Recommended Reliable Sources 2.1 Shakespeare Treatises 2.2 Stratford-on-Avon Parish Registers 2.3 Original Documents 3 Apocryphal Genealogies of the Ardens-Webbs 3.1 Old Printed Genealogies 3.2 Modern On-line Webpages

Profiles

The Great Bard & His Wife

• William Shakespeare
• Ann (Hathaway) Shakespeare

Children

• Susanna (Shakespeare) Hall - auto-generated Gedcom import
• Hamnet Shakespeare - 1 sentence, 1 source bio
• Judith Shakespeare) Quiney - 3 sentence, 4 source bio

Grandchildren

Parents

• John Shakespeare
• Mary (Arden) Shakespeare - profile in good shape

Siblings

Grandparents

• Richard Shakespeare (wife and parents unknown)
• Robert Arden (1st wife unknown) - profile in good shape
• Agnes (Webb) Arden (Robert's 2d wife; parents unknown)

Great Grandparents

• Thomas Arden (wife unknown; parents uncertain) - profile in good shape

Uncles

• Henry Shakespeare (brother of the Bard's father)
• Alexander Webb (husband of the Bard's aunt Margaret and brother of Robert Arden's second wife, Agnes) - profile in good shape

Aunts

• Agnes (Arden) Stringer (sister of the Bard's mother) - profile in good shape
• Joan (Arden) Lambert (sister of the Bard's mother) - profile in good shape
• Katherine (Arden) Edkyns (sister of the Bard's mother) - profile in good shape
• Elizabeth (Arden) Scarlett (sister of the Bard's mother) - no profile
• Margaret (Arden) Cornwall (sister of the Bard's mother) - profile in good shape
• Joyce Arden (sister of the Bard's mother) - profile in good shape
• Alice Arden (sister of the Bard's mother) - profile in good shape

First Cousins

• Robert Webb - profile in good shape

Recommended Reliable Sources

Shakespeare Treatises

• French, George Russell. Shakspeareana Genealogica. McMillan and Co., 1869. Link to page at archive.org.
• Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O. Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare. Seventh Edition. Volume the First. Longmans, Green and Co., 1887. Link to volume at hathitrust.org
• Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O. Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare. Seventh Edition. Volume the Second. Longmans, Green and Co., 1887. Link to volume at hathitrust.org
• Stopes, Mrs. C.C. Shakespeare's Family, Being a Record of the Ancestors and Descendants of William Shakespeare with Some Account of the Ardens. James Pott & Company, 1901. Link to book at archive.org.
• Chambers, E.K. William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems. Vol. I. 1930. Link to volume at archive.org.
• Chambers, E.K. William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems. Vol. II. 1930. Link to volume at archive.org.
• Eccles, Mark. Shakespeare in Warwickshire. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1963.
• Schoenbaum, S. William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life. Oxford University Press. 1977. Link to book at archive.org.
• Pogue, Kate Emery. Shakespeare's Family. Praeger, 2008. Available on Kindle at amazon.com.

Stratford-on-Avon Parish Registers

• Savage, Richard. The Registers of Stratford-on-Avon, in the County of Warwick. Baptisms, 1558-1652. 1897. Link to volume at archive.org.
• Savage, Richard. The Registers of Stratford-on-Avon, in the County of Warwick. Marriages, 1558-1812. 1898. Link to volume at archive.org.
• Savage, Richard. The Registers of Stratford-on-Avon, in the County of Warwick. Burials, 1558-1622/3. 1905. Link to volume at archive.org.
• The Vestry Minute-Book of the Parish of Stratford-on-Avon from 1617 to 1699 A.D. Link to volume at archive.org.

Original Documents

• Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, collections.shakespeare.org.uk
• "Shakespeare Documented: An Online Exhibition," shakespearedocumented.folger.edu

Apocryphal Genealogies of the Ardens-Webbs

Old Printed Genealogies

• Selleck, Charles M. Norwalk. 1896. pp. 387-388, 398-399, 402-403 interpage. Link to pp 402-403 interpage at archive.org. Unsourced genealogy in self-published history of Norwalk, Connecticut. In Selleck's defense, he apparently just published whatever the local families said their English ancestry was and started the "Lineage" section of his book with the following disclaimer: "In regard to this work's 'genealogy,' its author assumes no statement-responsibility beyond that of his clients' American ancestry and affinity. Of the right and reasonableness of introduced foreign family data, the reader must be the judge." See p 81.
• Frost, Josephine. Ancestors of Henry Rogers Winthrop and His Wife Alice Woodward Babcock. 1927. pp. 540-541. Link to page at archive.org Link to page at ancestry.com ($). Unsourced pedigree. Note: This book has the distinction of having been singled out by Donald Lines Jacobus as an example of the type of genealogy book that should not be trusted. See Jacobus, Donald Lines. Genealogy as Pastime and Profession. 1930. p. 75. Link to page at hathitrust.org.
• Finley, Mrs. Herold R. "Dorr Family". Americana. Vol. XVII, No. 4 (October, 1923). The American Historical Society, 1923. pp. 467-468. Link to page at books.google.com. Unsourced genealogical information about the Webb family as part of a genealogy of the Dorr family.

Modern On-line Webpages

• "Tim and Rachel Janzen's Ancestors," timjanzen.com. Accessed March 29, 2019. Unsourced.
• "The Webb Family," skinnerwebb.com. Accessed March 29, 2019. States that it is based on Descendants of Richard Webb, a 1943 unpublished manuscript by Lewis Bailey Skinner.
• Descendants of Sir Henry WEBB", jimwebb.rootsweb.com. Archived February 20, 2016. Unsourced.
• "Alexander Webb," themorrisclan.com. Archived July 20, 2017. Cites skinnerweb.com.
• Enos, Carol Curt, "Shakespeare and Queen Catherine Parr," christianshakespeare.blogspot.com. Accessed April 2, 2019. Cites some legitimate sources but most crucial aspects of the genealogy are unsourced or based on unsourced family trees.
• "Sir Alexander Webb Jr.", geni.com. Accessed March 29, 2019. Cites skinnerwebb.com and jimwebb.rootsweb.com.