Shakespeare's family
By Stopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)
Classic work by Stopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael).
Table of Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I. THE NAME OF SHAKESPEARE 1 II. THE LOCALITIES OF EARLY SHAKESPEARES ...
I. THE PARK HALL ARDENS 162 II. THE ARDENS OF LONGCROFT 183 III. OTHER WARWICKSHIRE ARDENS 18...
THE NAME OF SHAKESPEARE The origin of the name of "Shakespeare" is hidden in the mists of antiquity. Writers in _Notes and Queries_ have formed it from Sigisbert, or from Jacques ...
THE LOCALITIES OF EARLY SHAKESPEARES We find the name occurs in widely scattered localities from very early times. Perhaps a resembling name ought to be noted "in the hamlet of Pr...
LATER SHAKESPEARES BEFORE THE POET'S TIME In the sixteenth century there were Shakespeares all over the country, in Essex, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Nottingham,[36] but chief...
THE SHAKESPEARE COAT OF ARMS [Illustration: NON SANZ DROICT.] None of the family seem to have risen above the heraldic horizon till John Shakespeare applied for his coat of arms....
THE IMPALEMENT OF THE ARDEN ARMS In the later application to impale the Ardens' arms in 1599, the 1596 draft is repeated in only slightly altered terms. "Antecessors" is changed t...
THE ARDENS OF WILMECOTE It is unfortunate that we know so little about Thomas Arden, Mary Shakespeare's "antecessor." A quiet country gentleman he seems to have been, marrying for...
JOHN SHAKESPEARE Richard Shakespeare was in tenure of the property at Snitterfield, which Robert Arden settled on his wife and daughters July 17, 4 Edward VI., Adam Palmer and Hug...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare was thirty-seven when he became head of the family in 1601. His previous life must have been a stirring one, though we know only too little...
SHAKESPEARE'S DESCENDANTS William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, of a respectable family, supposed to be of Shottery. He had three children: Susanna, and Hamnet and Judith, tw...
COLLATERALS John Shakespeare had other sons than William. There were three--Gilbert, Richard and Edmund. These all died comparatively young, and none of them was married. Edmund,...
COUSINS AND CONNECTIONS It is certain that Shakespeare had many cousins on the Arden side. A notice of the Stringers, the Lamberts, the Edkins, and the Webbes has been already giv...
CONTEMPORARY WARWICKSHIRE SHAKESPEARES Outside the immediate family of the poet there were many contemporaries in Warwickshire, who may have been connected in some far-off degree....
SHAKESPEARES IN OTHER COUNTIES The Warwickshire Shakespeares overflowed into the surrounding counties. There were Shakespeares in Stafford,[266] Worcester,[267] Gloucester,[268] N...
LONDON SHAKESPEARES By far the most interesting search can be made in London, that great centre where congregate representatives of all the families and counties of the kingdom. ...
THE PARK HALL ARDENS "No Saint George was born in England: He was but an Eastern saint; And the Dragon never vexed him, As the later legends paint. "But o...
THE ARDENS OF LONGCROFT This main line of Ardens having thus become extinct, we have to go back some generations to find the younger branch that carried on the name. Simon, the se...
OTHER WARWICKSHIRE ARDENS It would be interesting to know more of some of the other Warwickshire Ardens, particularly those mentioned in the Register of the Guild of Knowle, as so...
THE ARDENS OF CHESHIRE In the Conqueror's time the Manor of Watford, Northamptonshire, was recognised as belonging to Gilbert the Cooke, to whom his son Baldwin succeeded. But the...
BRANCHES IN OTHER COUNTIES An interesting Arden whom I have not been able to connect with any relatives was John Arderne, of Newark,[533] a physician who practised with distinctio...