NameJohn * WEBSTER III251
Birth1535, Cossington, Leicestershire England
Death11 Oct 1594, Cossington, Leicestershire England
Burial12 Oct 1594, Cossington, Leicestershire England
FatherJohn * WEBSTER II (1510-1575)
MotherIsabell * KYTHIN (1513-)
Other spousesIsabel * RYNZZA
Marriage6 Apr 1583, Cossington, Leicestershire England251
SpouseAlice OLVEN251
Notes for John * WEBSTER III
Children linked to Isabel must belong to Webster’s second wife mentioned in narrative below, since Isabel allegedly died within the first year of marriage. While not named in narrative, gedcom file lists second wife as Alice Olven. Matthew is linked to her in gedcom file import but was not linked to her in World Tree on Ancestry.com. CHECK.1

From gedcom file submitted by Robert David Pedrin:251
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John Webster III, whose domestic life was punctuated by a pathetic succession of lyings in and layings out, appears to have married shortly after his grandmother's death. His bride, Isabel, died in childbed within a year and he married again very soon, for another babe was laid in the churchyard before sixteen months were out. In those days, when no man could run a farm or a business without a helpmeet, he would not be accused of inconstancy.

He prospered in business; the accounts show that he ranked extra land and that he was taxed quite highly for parish purposes. He became, after the squire and the parson, a leading man in the village; in fact, his name appears next after theirs in the articles of agreement made in 1585. It is interesting to notice that these rules, that were "to contynew for ever, " were drawn up at a time when England was in greater peril than she was ever to be again until 1940 [i.e. the invasion of the Spanish Armada1].

Source: The Ancestry of Governor John Webster, by Mrs. S. H. Skillington, published in The American Genealogist (entire number 96), Vol. XXIV, No. 4 (October 1948).[v33t1441JudyWeb.FTW]
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