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Mary Shakespeare
Mother of William Shakespeare ()
Mary Shakespeare (néeArden; c. — September )[a] was the mother of William Shakespeare.
Biography
Mary was born about in Wilmcote, the daughter of Robert Arden, a gentleman farmer and junior descendant of the Arden family,[4][5] who were prominent in Warwickshire.
She was the youngest of eight daughters, and when her father died in she inherited land at Snitterfield and Wilmcote from him as a dowry.
[Points: Born: at Stratford-on-Avon, England-Parents: John Shakespeare, Mary Arden-Wife: Anne Hathaway- Children: Susanna, Hamnet.The house was left to her stepmother Agnes Hill. Richard Shakespeare, the father of John Shakespeare, was a tenant farmer on land owned by her father in Snitterfield. As the daughter of Richard's landlord, she may have known John since childhood.[6] Mary married John Shakespeare in , when she was 20 years old and her spouse was approximately 26 years old.[6] She bore eight children: Joan (), Margaret (–), William (–), Gilbert (–), Joan (–), Anne (–), Richard (–), and Edmun