Person:Judith Unknown (151)

A New Look At the Corwin and Shatswell Families by David A. MacDonald discusses a Chancery court proceeding in 1627 against the administrator of the estate of widow Judith Shatswell of Sibbertoft, Northamptonshire, England, who had died more than a decade earlier. The document indicates that widow Judith Shatswell was the mother of these children:

John, b. circa 1597.
Margaret, b. circa 1598 married Matthew Curwen.
Theophilus b. circa 1599.
Sibyl b. circa 1601.
Mary b. circa 1605 married John Webster.

MacDonald thinks that Theophilus was born between Margaret and Sibyl because of their order in mention in the suit and thinks the ages given in the suit is wrong. The age as written would make him b. circa 1608.

There is no mention of a William Shatswell, although there is reference to "two of ye uncles and neere kinsemen". It seems we can prove that Mary (Shatswell) Webster Emery was from Sibbertoft, England and her mother was named Judith.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} MacDonald, David A. A New Look at the Corwin and Shatswell Families. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr 1996)
   150:185.

   (-----) Shatswell died probably about 1606, leaving a widow Judith (-----) who died probably about 1612/3.

2. ↑ Speculative. Apparently based on a footnote remark by Walter Goodwin in his sketch of the Shatswell family Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (3:283).