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Little is known about Joan's husband, William, apart from the fact that he was sued for debt in 1600 and 1601. [3] He died in April 1616, and was buried 17 April, a week before William Shakespeare died.
Shakespeare was survived by his wife Anne and by two daughters, Susanna and Judith. His son Hamnet had died in 1596. His last surviving descendant was his granddaughter Elizabeth Hall, daughter of Susanna and John Hall.
Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith.
Joan was the only surviving daughter of John and Mary Shakespeare and the only one of Shakespeare’s siblings to outlive him. She married hatter William Hart in the late 1590's. From 1601 the Harts lived in a cottage within the west part of the Shakespeare house on Henley Street.
William’s sister Joan, born in 1569, married a hatter, William Hart, some time before 1600. They had four children: William, Mary, Thomas and Michael. Joan’s husband died in 1616 only a week before his famous brother-in-law, who left Joan life tenancy of part of the Henley Street house, along with £20 and “all his wearing apparel”.
When Joan Shakespeare was born on 15 April 1569, in Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Shakespeare, was 32 and her mother, Mary Arden, was 30. She had at least 4 sons and 1 daughter with William Hart.
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Her husband was buried one week before William Shakespeare. Joan continued to live as a widow in Henley Street, and was buried on 4 November 1646. Their daughter, Mary, lived only from 1603 to 1607.
