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Susanna Hall
William Shakespeare's Eldest Daughter
Female
Born
May 26, 1583
Died
Jul 11, 1649
Nationality
English
Susanna Hall, née Shakespeare, was the eldest child of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, and the older sister of Judith Quiney and Hamnet Shakespeare. She married John Hall, a local physician, in 1607. They had one daughter, named as Elizabeth, in… Read More
Family
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Susanna Hall
d.1649
parents
siblings
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Judith ShakespeareSister, deceased
children
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
Born in 1583.
TEENAGE
1602
19 Years Old
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Some slight evidence indicates that Shakespeare settled a substantial dowry on Susanna of 105 acres of his land in Old Stratford he had bought in 1602, probably retaining a life interest in it. John Hall's Select Observations, cases studies of his patients, was published in 1657, 22 years after his death. The earliest case, a local one, dates from 1611, making it almost certain that he lived and worked in Stratford from at least the time of his marriage.
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TWENTIES
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She married John Hall, a local physician, in 1607.
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THIRTIES
1613
30 Years Old
In June 1613, a man named John Lane, Jr., 23, accused Susanna of adultery with a Rafe Smith, a 35-year-old haberdasher, and claimed she’d caught a venereal disease from Smith.
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1616
33 Years Old
When Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616, he left the bulk of his estate, in an elaborate fee tail, to Susanna and her male heirs, which included his main house, New Place, his two houses on Henley Street, and various lands in and around Stratford, and all his “goodes Chattels, Leases, plate, jewles and Household stuffe whatsoever after my dettes and Legasies paied and my funerall expences discharged” to her and her husband.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
Here lyeth the body of Susanna, wife of John Hall, gent., the daughter of William Shakespeare, gent. She deceased the 11 day of July, Anno 1649, aged 66.
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