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We have to be some kind of cousin because John Borrodell Denison is my 7th great grandfather, Sylvester Baldwin, who died on board the Martin, is my 8th great grandfather, and Thomas Stanton, spouse of Ann Lord, is my 8th great grandfather.
I would love news on the reunion. My wife and I are 85 years old, so we might be unable to make it, but we would love to give it a try.
The Stanton/Shakespeare puzzle in brief is as follows:
Most genealogies show Thomas Stanton I, son of John Stanton and Elizabeth Townsend being married to Maria Pudsey. They give him four or five children including Thomas Stanton II. The LDS Ancestral files give the same results but also give a second parallel Thomas Stanton I, son of the same John Stanton and Elizabeth Townsend but with a wife Alice and a daughter Judith.
Remarkably, I have a holographic genealogy of the Baldwin family written by Charles Clinton Baldwin, brother of John Denison Baldwin which shows Thomas Stanton I, having a child, Judith, by Maria Pudsey. It says that Judith married Shakespeare’s friend, Hamnet Sadler, and that Shakespeare named his twin children Hamnet and Judith after them. All of that is well documented elsewhere except for the Stanton connection.
The Shakespeare connection comes up again in Oland Green’s online Stanton Genealogy at http://www.geocities.com/oegreen2001/Stanton.htm. According to him, Thomas Stanton II was the accomplished sculptor of many notable pieces, among them the well known bust of Shakespeare described in Washington Irving's "Sketch Book." I also note that Stratford on Avon is very near the Stanton home turf.
What do you think about this?
Frederick (Fred) Hickler. My email is fhickler@verizon.net
http://dunhamwilcox.net/barbour/stonington_barbour_main.htm
Hope you can fix it, Cheers, Coralynn
