Ancestral Trails 2016 » Joan SHAKESPEARE (1569-1646)

Personal data Joan SHAKESPEARE 

• She was born April 1569 in Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire.
• She died in the year 1646 in Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire, she was 76 years old.
• A child of John SHAKESPEARE and Mary ARDEN

Household of Joan SHAKESPEARE

She is married to William HART.

They got married before 1600.

Child(ren):

1. William HART  1600-1639 
2. Thomas HART  1605-1645 

Notes about Joan SHAKESPEARE

Joan Shakespeare (baptised 15 April 1569 - buried 4 November 1646) was the sister of William Shakespeare. She is the only member of the family whose known descendants continue down to the present day

Joan was Shakespeare's younger sister. She married a hatter named William Hart with whom she had four children, William (1600-1639), Mary (1603-1606), Thomas (1605-1661), and Michael (1608-1618).

Little is known about Joan's husband, William, apart from the fact that he was sued for debt in 1600 and 1601. He died in April 1616, and was buried 17 April, a week before William Shakespeare died. In his will her brother left her a legacy of £20, some clothing and the right to live in the western part of the double family house on Henley Street in Stratford for a nominal yearly rent of one shilling. She continued to reside there for the remainder of her life, dying at the age of 77.

Her son William never married. Her other descendants via Thomas lived in Stratford until 1806. Thomas inherited the Henley Street house known as Shakespeare's Birthplace. He had many descendants. By the 18th century Joan's descendants were identifying themselves as carrying the poet's family line. John Hart (1755-1800) was identified as "the 6th descendant of the poet Shakespeare" on his gravestone in Tewkesbury Abbey Churchyard, Gloucestershire.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Shakespeare

In 1569, John and Mary Shakespeare gave birth to another girl, and named her after her first born sister, Joan. Joan Shakespeare accomplished the wondrous feat of living to be seventy-seven years old -- outliving William and all her other siblings by decades. Joan married William Hart the hatter and had four children but two of them died in childhood. Her son William Hart (1600-1639) followed in his famous uncle's footsteps and became an actor, performing with the King's Men in the mid-1630s. His most noted role was that of Falstaff.
SOURCE: www.shakespeare-online.com/biography

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