Gilbert Shakespeare
Deceased Person
1566 – 1612
Who was Gilbert Shakespeare?
Gilbert Shakespeare was a younger brother of William Shakespeare. His name is found in local records of Stratford-upon-Avon and London.
His father, John Shakespeare, was a glover living in Henley Street, Stratford, and an alderman of the town from 1564. Gilbert may have been named after Gilbert Bradley, also a glover, who lived on the same street and who in 1565 was one of the capital burgesses of Stratford.
In London, Gilbert Shakespeare was a haberdasher, a seller of needlework supplies such as thread, needles, and ribbons, living in the parish of St Bride's. In 1597 he and a shoemaker stood surety for £19 bail for William Sampson, a Stratford clockmaker, in the Court of Queen's Bench.
Gilbert Shakespeare seems to have moved back to Stratford by 1602. On 1 May of that year he acted as his brother William's agent in taking delivery of the deed to 107 acres of farm land in Old Stratford, which William Shakespeare had bought from John and William Combe for £320. Along with several unsavoury Warwickshire characters, Gilbert was named in a bill of complaint on 21 November 1609 instigated by Joan Bromley, a Stratford widow, but the details of the suit are unknown. He signed his name in a neat Italian hand, "Gilbert Shakesper", as witness on 5 March 1610 to a lease of property in Bridge Street in Stratford.
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- Born
- Oct 13, 1566
Stratford-upon-Avon - Parents
- Siblings
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Died
- Feb 3, 1612
- Resting place
- Stratford-upon-Avon
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on July 23, 2013
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