Brief Life History of Elizabeth Isabel
When Elizabeth Isabel Shakespeare (first cousin to Wm. Shakespeare) was born in 1561, in Bishops Tachbrook, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Sir Robert Shakespeare, was 26 and her mother, Lady Charlotte Agnes Elizabeth Stewart Shakespeare Webb, was 23. She married Thomas Turner on 4 May 1593, in Bishops Tachbrook, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died about 1648, in Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 88, and was buried in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Isabell Shaxpere, "England, Warwickshire Parish Registers, 1535-1984"
- Legacy NFS Source: Isabel shakespeare -
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Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English shak(en) ‘shake, brandish’ + spere ‘spear’, presumably for a spearman or perhaps (with a slang sense of spear) for an exhibitionist.
History: In April 1487 Hugo Shakspere was elected a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and in June the same year he is further mentioned as Hugo Sawnder alias dictus Shakspere, sed mutatum est istud nomen eius, quia vile reputatum est ‘Hugo Sawnder also known as Shakspere, but that name of his has been changed because it is of ill repute’. John Shakspere, glover, businessman, bailiff and subsequently mayor of Stratford upon Avon, was the father of the playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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