Mary Shakespeare
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Mary Shakespeare was the mother of William Shakespeare.
A 1900s postcard depicting Mary Shakespeare
Palmer's Farm (rear)
Gilbert Shakespeare
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Gilbert Shakespeare was an English haberdasher, and a younger brother of playwright and poet William Shakespeare. His name is found in local records of Stratford-upon-Avon and London.
Mary Shakespeare
…of Richard's landlord, she may have known John since childhood. Mary bore eight children: Joan (1558), Margaret (1562–1563), William (1564–1616), Gilbert (1566–1612), Joan (1569–1646), Anne (1571–1579), Richard (1574–1613), and Edmund (1580–1607). Several of them died young. Their first daughter, Joan…
Arms granted to the Shakespeare family in 1596