William Alexander Shakespeare

Brief Life History of William Alexander

When William Alexander Shakespeare was born on 21 January 1914, in Condobolin, New South Wales, Australia, his father, James William Shakespeare, was 45 and his mother, Susannah Hay, was 22. He died on 22 June 2004, in Woy Woy, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 90, and was buried in Point Clare, New South Wales, Australia.

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Family Time Line

James William Shakespeare
1868–1941
Susannah Hay
1891–1963
Thomas Mitchell Shakespeare
1910–1910
Mitchell Thomas Shakespeare
1912–1999
William Alexander Shakespeare
1914–2004
Barbara Ann Shakespeare
1916–1986
Elizabeth Verden Shakespeare
1917–1986
Jean Enid Shakespeare
1919–2012
Alma May Shakespeare
1921–1993
Agnes Joyce Shakespeare
1924–1983
Alfred Keith Shakespeare
1925–2005
Maisie Susan Shakespeare
1927–1992

Sources (3)

  • WILLIAM A SHAKESPEARE, "BillionGraves Index"
  • Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980
  • William Alexander Shakespeare, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1918

Australian troops sent to fight in South African War.

1918

Battle on the Somme. Australian forces capture Mont St. Quentin.

1939

Australia joins Britain in declaration of war on Germany.

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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