Ancestry of
Orson Welles

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Ruth Tallman

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Orson Welles — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 327 
  • Father:
  • Peter Tallman 
  • Mother:
  • Joan Briggs   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1669 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Israel Shaw
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  Mary Shaw

  Alice Shaw (Ahnentafel No:163 )

  Ruth Shaw

  Grace Shaw

  Comfort Shaw

  Deborah Shaw

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  • Some sources claim that the given name of Israel Shaw's wife was Ruth. Evidence is needed to confirm this.

• Sources for Ruth Tallman

  • ¹ Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Vol. 3, Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co. (1908), 2041.
  • ² 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.
  • ³ French, Anna Richmond Warner, An American Ancestry, Minneapolis: Hall, Black and Co., Printers (1894), 80.
  • ⁴ Wakefield, Robert S., comp., Mayflower Families in Progress: Richard Church and His Descendants for Four Generations, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1998), 42, 49.
  • ⁵ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 13, 3rd ed., William White, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 166.
  • ⁶ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 244.
  • ⁷ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 358.