Helen's story: from Duxbury to Shakespeare

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1. Another letter from Helen Moorwood: 'Ood ah thowt?' or 'Everything connects'

2. Interview via FAQs (Use this Link to access the whole Shakespeare document (239k) or use Bullet Buttons below to access each section separately)

Mainly about:

Shakespeare's ancestry and Lancashire connections	Evidence for the 'Shakespeare in Lancashire' theory
The relevance of his ancestry for his biography	Evidence for the 'Shakespeare in Lancashire' theory
His parents	The Shakespeares' Catholicism
A few more 'Hows and Whys' about ancestries	John and Mary in Stratford and Lancashire
William Stanley and other authorship candidates	Questions surrounding the peculiar Hoghton will of 1581
Duxbury to Standish to Shakespeare connections	Catholic Questions
Shakespeare and Lancashire traditions	The future
Shakespeare Midlands traditions	Immediate hopes

3. Initial bibliography (for the Duxbury to Shakespeare' story)

4. Main conclusions and brief up-date on Duxbury-Shakespeare research over the past four years

5. Duxbury acknowledgements

6. Shakespeare and other acknowledgements

7. Provisional contents list of Shakespeare book

8. Three Grails of Duxbury --------------(Not yet available)

9. The story of Pilgrim Father Captain Myles Standish

10. The Biography of Alexander Standish

11. Countess Alice of Derby

12. Colonel Richard Standish of Duxbury (c. 1597-1662)

13. Myles Standish -- a 1655 document

14. The end of the line at Duxbury Hall --- (Not yet available)

15. The Standish of Duxbury Muniments ---- (Not yet available)

16. Standish of Duxbury Wills and Pedigree Charts

17. Robert Glover (1544-88) and Mary Arderne's Cheshire family

18. Sir John Arderne

19. The Cheshire Ardernes ------------- (Not yet available)

20. 'Shakespeare in Lancashire' update ---(Not yet available)

21. Father Conlan's letters ------ (Not yet available)

22. Shakespeare's 'new' biography ----- (Not yet available)

Planned

Researching early families

Transcriptions and stories behind the 'dynamite documents' in 'Main conclusions'

Susan's tradition and a possible explanation

Brief biographies of some of the most important early characters in Duxbury

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