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Northern Lass wrote:ooooh what did it say about the Shakespeares anything on the Woodside ones?
sp1 wrote:It doesn't mention the Woodside ones.
The author of the article in issue 16 is a relative of Mathsgirl and Jimmy, being a grandson (I think!) of the (John?) Shakespeare who was Mayor of Rowley Regis.
Sadly, he is wrong regarding the parentage of his ancestor at the point where we are all stuck with this family, despite having the evidence, I have been to his house so I know he has this. His article claimed a close connection going back to THE William Shakespeare, but as he can't really prove anything once back about 200 years that's a difficult one! And, as he claimed Richard Shakespeare, one time Bailiff of Wroxall (Warks) was the grandfather of said William of Stratford he is also wrong - that I CAN prove: the good news is I am pretty sure he (Richard) is the ancestor of all of us on the forum who descend from the local Shakespeares.
I tried to point all of this out on my follow- up article in issue 18 but sadly they butchered it!!
Will get copies of both off to you soon.
Incidentally Michael Wood, in his TV series, and subsequent book, 'In Search of Shakespeare' made the same erroneous assumption about Richard Shakespeare - easy to prove that this is wrong.
sp1 wrote:It doesn't mention the Woodside ones.
The author of the article in issue 16 is a relative of Mathsgirl and Jimmy, being a grandson (I think!) of the (John?) Shakespeare who was Mayor of Rowley Regis.
Sadly, he is wrong regarding the parentage of his ancestor at the point where we are all stuck with this family, despite having the evidence, I have been to his house so I know he has this. His article claimed a close connection going back to THE William Shakespeare, but as he can't really prove anything once back about 200 years that's a difficult one! And, as he claimed Richard Shakespeare, one time Bailiff of Wroxall (Warks) was the grandfather of said William of Stratford he is also wrong - that I CAN prove: the good news is I am pretty sure he (Richard) is the ancestor of all of us on the forum who descend from the local Shakespeares.
I tried to point all of this out on my follow- up article in issue 18 but sadly they butchered it!!
Will get copies of both off to you soon.
Incidentally Michael Wood, in his TV series, and subsequent book, 'In Search of Shakespeare' made the same erroneous assumption about Richard Shakespeare - easy to prove that this is wrong.
Northern Lass wrote:sp1 wrote:It doesn't mention the Woodside ones.
The author of the article in issue 16 is a relative of Mathsgirl and Jimmy, being a grandson (I think!) of the (John?) Shakespeare who was Mayor of Rowley Regis.
Sadly, he is wrong regarding the parentage of his ancestor at the point where we are all stuck with this family, despite having the evidence, I have been to his house so I know he has this. His article claimed a close connection going back to THE William Shakespeare, but as he can't really prove anything once back about 200 years that's a difficult one! And, as he claimed Richard Shakespeare, one time Bailiff of Wroxall (Warks) was the grandfather of said William of Stratford he is also wrong - that I CAN prove: the good news is I am pretty sure he (Richard) is the ancestor of all of us on the forum who descend from the local Shakespeares.
I tried to point all of this out on my follow- up article in issue 18 but sadly they butchered it!!
Will get copies of both off to you soon.
Incidentally Michael Wood, in his TV series, and subsequent book, 'In Search of Shakespeare' made the same erroneous assumption about Richard Shakespeare - easy to prove that this is wrong.
which John is it sp1 so we can have a look at them on Bcc
do we have this Richard on Bcc? if so can we add in Richard?
sp1 wrote:I think you're right MG! - have you met Ray?
Haven't forgotten about sending copies off to all of you, just need to find time!
By the way, there was a similar article by Ray in the Black Country Bugle a few weeks before the Family Tree Magazine appeared.
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