Shakespeare of Stratford/The Biographical Facts/Fact 3

by Tucker Brooke

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III. BIRTH OF SHAKESPEARE’S DAUGHTER, SUSANNA (1583).

Baptismal Register, Stratford-on-Avon.

1583 May 26 Susanna, daughter to William Shakspere.

Note. Susanna Shakespeare married John Hall of Stratford, an eminent physician, June 5, 1607, and died July 11, 1649. She had one daughter, Elizabeth Hall (baptized February 21, 1608), who married successively Thomas Nash of Welcombe near Stratford (April 22, 1626) and John Bernard, later Sir John Bernard, of Northamptonshire (June 5, 1649). She died without issue, February 17, 1670, being the poet’s last living descendant.