Sir Henry Alexander Webb, {Fictional}

Sir John Alexander Webb, Jr.

 → Mary Arden (Webb)

his daughter → Margaret Cornwall (Arden)
her daughter → Alexander Webb
her husband

Undoubtedly named after Henry VIII--due to the close family association with the royal family--

Henry Alexander Webb was born on May 11, 1510. As noted in the diagram above, Henry married Grace Arden, daughter of Thomas Arden, of Aston Cantlow parish of Warwick county. The continued close association of the Webb family and royalty are documented in a letter sent by the Queen, Catherine Parr, requesting that grants and privileges due Henry Alexander Webb be fulfilled as promised. Sir Henry and wife Grace had three children: First-born Alexander, Agnes and Robert. Little is known of Agnes and Robert. Sir Henry Alexander permanently secured nobility for the family when, on June 17, 1577, he was granted a coat of arms.

Alexander Webb was born in Bearley on December 24, 1534 and in 1555 married Margaret Arden, a daughter of the wealthy Stratford landowner Thomas Arden. Margaret was the sister of Mary Arden, eventual mother of William Shakespeare. Her mother, Mary Webb Arden, is also the aunt of Alexander Webb. Sir Alexander and Margaret had three children, Robert, Agnes, and first-born Alexander. Alexander is of particular interest, since it was members of his family that left Warwickshire for America.

Not a known child of Sir John Alexander Webb, Jr.

Disputed existence

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:The_Mythical_Ancestry_of_the_Am...

As presented in detail in the profile for Henry Webbe, there was indeed a real Henry Webbe who was gentleman usher to the Privy Chamber of King Henry VIII and his wife Catherine Parr and who, with the aid of a letter written by Catherine Parr on his behalf, acquired the property that later became Burbage's Theatre, at which Shakespeare's troupe performed. However, as discussed in that profile, that Henry Webbe was not known as Henry Alexander, his only known wife was named Barbara, and his only surviving child was a daughter named Susan.
No reliable sources has been cited or found that provide any evidence for the existence of any person meeting the description of Sir Henry Webb or Sir Henry Alexander Webb, as a separate person from Henry Webbe, gentleman usher, including no reliable sources that support his parentage, his date of birth, his marriage to a Grace Arden, or his parentage of children named Alexander or Agnes. His purported children, Alexander Webb and Agnes (Hill) Arden, were real people. However, no reliable source has been cited or found that provides credible evidence as to the identity of their parents.

Alexander's parentage is uncertain. A few older unsourced printed family genealogies[2][3] and many modern online Webb family genealogy pages[4][5][6][7] claim that Alexander and his sister Agnes were the children of a Sir Henry Webb and a Grace Arden. However, no reliable evidence has been found for that parentage or even for the existence of a Sir Henry Webb or a Grace Arden who could possibly be Alexander and Agnes's parents.

Date of birth has also been erroneously reported to be December 24, 1534.

Date of death has also been erroneously reported to be 1573.

NOTA BIEN: It has been alleged that this Sir Henry was a baronet, but the Baronetage of England was not formed until May 22, 1611.

links

• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/zwrk/webb03.php#link1 (membership required to view without interruption)
• http://jimwebb.rootsweb.ancestry.com/webb/pafg07.htm#9473