Interactive family tree (EFL level)
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Created on July 6, 2021
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John and Mary Shakespeare used the name Joan again, after their first-born daughter died as a baby. This was common at the time, as many children did not survive the first years of their life.
William’s youngest brother Edmund also became an actor in London. He is buried in London, close to where the theatre was.
After William became successful, he applied for his family’s right to be called ‘gentlemen’. This right was given to him, and the Shakespeares were allowed to call themselves gentlemen and carry swords.
William’s father John was a glove maker in Stratford. One day, he had to pay money as a punishment for putting up a pile of dirt in front of his house.
Some people thought Susanna was unfaithful to John Hall.
After getting married to Judith, it turned out that Thomas Quiney had another child with an unmarried woman before his marriage to Judith. Both the child and the mother died. William changed his will shortly before he died, after the family found out about Thomas Quiney’s earlier relationship. Thomas did not inherit anything.
William left his second-best bed to his wife Anne, when he died. Some people think this means that he did not love her. But actually the best bed in a household was the guest bed in the parlour, so the second-best was their marriage bed.
Gilbert probably stayed in Stratford for most of his life. There are records that suggest he worked as a shopkeeper for sewing materials like needles and buttons.
When William was born in 1564, his parents had already lost two baby daughters. Joan died within the first few weeks of her life, and Margaret died a year after she was born.
Anne unfortunately died at the age of eight.
It is likely that Richard was named after one of his grandfathers.
Elizabeth married twice but had no children.
Judith and her husband Thomas Quiney’s three sons all died young, either when they were babies or as young adults.
Hamnet died at the age of 11 and was buried in Stratford-upon-Avon on 11 August 1596. The cause of his death is unknown.
Mary Arden was the daughter of a farmer from a village close to Stratford.
John Hall was a doctor working in Stratford-upon-Avon.