Shakespeare of Stratford/The Biographical Facts/Fact 4
IV. BIRTH OF SHAKESPEARE’S TWIN CHILDREN (1585).
Baptismal Register, Stratford.
1584 [i.e. 1585] February 2 Hamnet and Judeth, son and daughter to William Shakspere.
Note. The twin children were presumably named after Hamnet Sadler, a baker of Stratford, and his wife Judith. Fripp (Richard Quyny, p. 108) notes that Hamnet and Hamlet are interchangeable spellings in the Stratford town records.[1]
Hamnet Shakespeare was buried August 11, 1596, having lived eleven and a half years. (See no. XII.) Judith married Thomas Quyny of Stratford (Feb. 10, 1616) and was buried there February 9, 1662, aged seventy-seven. She had three sons, all of whom died long before her and unmarried. The eldest, Shakespeare Quyny (baptized November 28, 1616), lived less than six months.
- ↑ See p. 84, fifth line from bottom.