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  2. Shakespeare Family Life. At the age of eighteen, William married Anne Hathaway, a young woman from the village of Shottery, just outside Stratford-upon-Avon. William and Anne Shakespeare had three children. Susanna was born six months after their marriage, followed by twins Judith and Hamnet in 1585. Hamnet died at age 11.

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      Susanna Shakespeare was baptised on 26th May 1583, six...

  3. William Shakespeare and his wife Anne had three children. The eldest, Susanna, was baptised on 26 May 1583. They also had twins, Judith and Hamnet, baptised on 2 February 1585. Shakespeare had four grandchildren who all died without heirs, so there are no direct descendants of his line today.

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    On 5 June 1607, Susanna married Dr John Hall, a well known and prosperous Stratford physician. Susanna’s marriage to John Hall likely pleased Shakespeare tremendously, for Shakespeare appointed John and Susanna executors of his will. Susanna moved into Hall’s Croft – John Hall’s family homeafter the wedding, and on 21 February 1608 gave birth to Wi...

    Little is known about Hamnet Shakespeare. He was probably raised principally by his mother Anne in the Henley Street house belonging to his grandfather. By the time Hamnet was four, his father was already a London playwright, and as William Shakespeare’s popularity grew over the years, he was likely not regularly at home in Stratford with his famil...

    Unlike Susanna, Shakespeare’s daughter Judith appears to have led something of a less upstanding life. Judith married a vintner called Thomas Quiney in February 1616 which brought scandal onto William Shakespeare. Thomas Quiney did not receive the necessary license for a wedding during Lent before he and Judith got married, and so the couple were e...

  4. May 13, 2021 · Mary had eight children, but only six survived infancy. John gave the town loyal service, rising through the ranks from the relatively humble role of ale-taster to become alderman and, in 1568, bailiff (or mayor.)

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  5. Sep 5, 2019 · John and Mary had a total of eight children, but infant mortality was common in Elizabethan England, and the first two children passed away within a year of being born. William, therefore, was the eldest of those who survived infancy. The other siblings all lived until they were adults, with the exception of Anne who died at the age of 8.

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  6. In 1582, Shakespeare married a woman eight years his senior, Anne Hathaway. The couple first had a daughter named Susanna, then twins - Judith and Hamnet. The circumstances of Hamnet's death and ...

  7. William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway in November 1582 and they remained married until Shakespeare's death. At the time of their marriage William was 18, while Anne was 26—and pregnant with their first child.

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