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  2. Mary married John Shakespeare in 1557, when she was 20 years old and her spouse was approximately 26 years old. She bore eight children: Joan (1558), Margaret (1562–1563), William (1564–1616), Gilbert (1566–1612), Joan (1569–1646), Anne (1571–1579), Richard (1574–1613), and Edmund (1580–1607). [7]

  3. Mary Arden married John Shakespeare in 1557, when she was 20 years old and John was 26. She may have been thought to have married ‘beneath’ herself – a daughter of the landed class marrying the son of a tenant farmer – but we do not know anything about her family’s attitude to her marriage.

  4. Four years later he married Mary Arden (1537-1608). It is thought Shakespeare’s parents may have known each other from childhood, as John’s father was a tenant farmer on land owned by Mary’s father. Mary’s family had a distinguished history and could trace itself back to the Norman Conquest.

  5. Probably about a year after her father’s death in late 1556, Mary married John Shakespeare and moved to live with him in a house on Henley Street. She was between 19-21 years old when she got married and left her father’s home.

  6. Mar 22, 2020 · We know very little about Mary Arden’s marriage to John Shakespeare, which took place sometime between 1556 and 1558. He was the son of a tenant farmer on her father’s land. She was from a well-to-do farming family from the village of Wilmcote, and the youngest of at least eight daughters.

  7. Mary Arden, the heiress, and John Shakespeare, the Yeoman, married in 1557 presumably in the parish church of St John the Baptist, Aston Cantlow. Mary was 17 and John was 26 years old at the time of their marriage.

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  9. Nov 12, 2019 · Mary Arden married John Shakespeare. The fact that Mary Arden was the Mary who was John Shakespeare's wife is established, in part, by records relating to the sale by John and Mary Shakespeare of Mary's inheritance in Robert Arden's estates in Wilmcote [8] [9] and Snitterfield.

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