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Orson Welles

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Alice Shaw

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Orson Welles — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 163 
  • Father:
  • Israel Shaw 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Tallman   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Nov 1695 
  • Birth Location:
  • Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Palmer
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Feb 1716 
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  Bathsheba Palmer (Ahnentafel No:81 )

• Sources for Alice Shaw

  • ¹ Rhode Island Vital Records, 1636-1850 - Town and Church Records, Newport County, Vol. 4, Birth record for daughter Bathsheba Palmer.
  • ² Rhode Island Vital Records, 1636-1850 - Town and Church Records, Newport County, Vol. 4, p. 6-158, Birth record for Alice Shaw.
  • ³ Austin, John Osborne, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690, Albany, New York: Joel Munsells Sons (1887), 174.
  • ⁴ Fernald, Natalie R., ed., The Genealogical Exchange, Buffalo, New York, MAY 1905, Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 8.
  • ⁵ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 338.