Her death marked the first time he had to confront the loss of a member of his immediate family. Richard was baptized on March 11, Like Gilbert, he never married. Richard was buried on February 4, Edmund was baptized on May 3, Evidence suggests that he became an actor. After he died in , an elaborate funeral was held for him in St. Saviour's Church in London's Southwark section, where he was buried on December Susanna was baptized on May 26, , and lived to age In she married a physician, John Hall, who had moved to Stratford about , carried on a thriving medical practice, and became a good friend of William.
Hall lived in Stratford at Hall's Croft and had one child, Elizabeth, who was baptized on February 21, Thus, William Shakespeare became a grandfather two months before his 44th birthday. Elizabeth married twice—to Thomas Nash in and John Bernard in —but had no children. Shakespeare bequeathed his Stratford and London properties to Susanna, an executor of his will. For a full accounting of the bequest, see Shakespeare's Will , on this site. The following epitaph appears on Susanna's gravestone:.
Witty above her sexe, but that's not all, Wise to salvation was good Mistris Hall. Something of Shakespeare was in that, but this Wholy of him with whom she's now in blisse.
Then Passenger, hast nere a teare, To weepe with her that wept with all; That wept, yet set her self to chere Them up with comforts cordiall. Her love shall live, her mercy spread, When thou hast ner'e a teare to shed. Hamnet and Judith, Twins. Hamnet and Judith Shakespeare were baptized on February 2, Hamnet died of plague in , when he was only 11, and buried on August It is possible that Hamnet's death inspired a famous passage in Shakespeare's play King John , which was probably completed in or The passage follows:.
Judith married Thomas Quiney, a local wine dealer and tavern owner, on February 10, , two months before William Shakespeare's death. Shakespeare altered his will—written in January —in late March of in reaction to disturbing news about Quiney: He had had an affair with a local woman, Margaret Wheeler, while he was courting Judith, and Miss Wheeler bore his illegitimate child in the month following the marriage of Judith and Thomas.
Miss Wheeler and the child died during childbirth. In addition, Judith and Thomas were excommunicated from the church because Thomas had failed to obtain a special marriage license required of couples to be married in lent. Shakespeare's revised will left all of his property to Susanna, his first daughter. However, to receive the additional sum, Quiney had to yield to her property of equal value. Judith bore three children. Stratford was a market center for the county of Warwickshire in the rural heartland of England.
Shakespeare's mother was born Mary Arden, the daughter of a well-to-do landowner in a lesser branch of an aristocratic family. It is typical of the period that, though many references to John Shakespeare's activities survive, only the date of Mary Shakespeare's burial 9 September was recorded.
In John Shakespeare was wealthy enough to buy two houses, but in he stopped attending council meetings, though he was an alderman. The following year he mortgaged a property of his wife's and sold her share in another.
Later, he faced various fines and lost his aldermanic seat. In he was listed among those who failed to attend church, "for feare of process for debtte. In John Shakespeare applied for, and was granted, a coat of arms , which would then make him and his family members of the gentry; in William bought the splendid house New Place on the main street of Stratford.
It seems likely that William's undoubted success as shareholder in the Lord Chamberlain's Men his company of actors allowed him to restore his father's fortunes. Four months after his son's death in , Edmund Shakespeare was buried in Southwark, near the Globe theatre. Of his life and death, David J. Kathman writes:. Edmund Shakespeare was born in Stratford in The next mention of him which survives is the baptism of his son Edward at St.
Joan died in , but her descendants stayed in Stratford until Undoubtedly already euphoric that Joan had survived the precarious first few years of childhood, the Shakespeares' joy was heightened with the birth of their fourth daughter, Anne, in , when William was seven years old.
Unfortunately, tragedy befell the family yet again when Anne died at the age of eight. The sorrow felt by the Shakespeares' over the loss of Anne was profound, and even though they were burdened by numerous debts at the time of her death, they arranged an unusually elaborate funeral for their cherished daughter.
Anne Shakespeare was buried on April 4, In , Mary and John Shakespeare had another boy and they named him Richard, probably after his paternal grandfather. Richard was baptized on March 11 of that year, and nothing else is known about him, except for the fact that he died, unmarried, and was buried on February 4, -- a year and a day after the death of Gilbert Shakespeare.
Mary gave birth to one more child in They christened him on May 3 and named him Edmund, probably in honor of his uncle Edmund Lambert. Edmund was eager to follow William into the acting profession, and when he was old enough he joined William in London to embark on a career as a "player. Edmund died in -- not yet thirty years old. He was buried in St. Saviour's Church, in Southwark, on December 31 of that year.
His funeral was costly and magnificent, with tolling bells heard across the Thames. It is most likely that William planned the funeral for his younger brother because he would have been the only Shakespeare wealthy enough to afford such an expensive tribute to Edmund. In addition, records show that the funeral was held in the morning, and as Dennis Kay points out, funerals were usually held in the afternoon.
It is probable that the morning funeral was arranged so that Shakespeare's fellow actors could attend the burial of Edmund.
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