2006-08-13 01:00:59 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
Because he most likely was not the only person in the world with the surname of Shakespeare.
2006-08-14 16:55:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was not the only Shakespeare. Shakespeare is a surname and many people shared it across time.
But, yes he had a family:
"Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior, on November 28, 1582 at Temple Grafton, near Stratford. There appears to have been some haste in arranging the ceremony: Anne was three months pregnant. After his marriage, William Shakespeare left few traces in the historical record until he appeared on the London literary scene.
On May 26, 1583 Shakespeare's first child, Susanna, was baptised at Stratford. There soon followed on February 2, 1585 the baptisms of a son, Hamnet, and of a daughter, Judith."
http://open-encyclopedia.com/William_Shakespeare
There is even a book:
Shakespeare's family : being a record of the ancestors and descendants of William Shakespeare
http://content.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=23693&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0
Shakespeare Family Crest
http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx/shakespeare-family-crest.htm
2006-08-13 01:02:26 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just because he didn't have any living relatives, doesn't mean that there wasn't some male way back who moved off and had a family and kept the line going that way. It's not like he just magically appeared one day. Everyone has relatives.
Also, people do change their names.
2006-08-14 10:10:43 · answer #3 · answered by Tonya in TX - Duck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because during his time there were other Shakespeare's who were not writers but were engaged in making fishing reels.
2006-08-13 01:10:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There could be one reason that people would like to connect them with his great Surname.The figure is legendary in litterateur and I think He had a family and this could be traced in family tree map at stratford -UK.
2006-08-13 01:32:56 · answer #5 · answered by shri 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
name changes my friend or imagrants from other countries were given new names back in the day
stuff a long those lines
warren
2006-08-13 01:02:22 · answer #6 · answered by milezmonky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
shakespeare was his pen name,, not his real name. google about him,, they have narrowed the possibilities down to two people.
2006-08-13 01:04:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
because they are decended from the same people he is decended from
2006-08-13 01:02:29 · answer #8 · answered by brinlarrr 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋