Shakespeare's Family

were three-Gilbert, Richard and Edmund. These all di

ess. From London registers we know that on August 12, 1607, in the parish of St. Giles', Cripplegate, was buried "Edward, the base-born son of Edward Shakespeare, Player," and that on December 31 of the

s Gilbert, but some other, probably a young son of his. But there is no record of a marriage, of the birth of any child, of the death of his wife, or of his own death, if this entry be given another translation than the natural one. We may well imagine the clerk did not fully understand the meaning of the

rn 1573, we know nothing, except that he d

akespeare wills; there is no mention of a Shakespeare in the wills of William Shakespe

Shakespeare's famous coat of arms without a new grant. Yet we find some bearing the arms, and many claimants of such descent. Sir Thomas Winnington asks if the Sh

r was a Shakespeare, descended from the brother of everybody's Shakespeare."[216] Such claims may be explained by a na

who married Shakespeare's sister Joan, and who lived in Shakespeare's old house in Henley Street, and died a few days before the poet.[217] The pedigree of the Harts is printed in French's "Shakespeareana G

content with a very modest position and very unromantic

ed, as they thought, the proviso of Shakespeare's will regarding his heirs. But, as she left them the Henley Street house, and a c

one in Tewkesbury appears: "In Memory of John Hart, the sixth descenda

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