Comments on: John Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Father https://nosweatshakespeare.com <strong><a href="/">Modern Shakespeare</a></strong> resources, <strong><a href="/sonnets/">sonnet translations</a></strong> & lots more! Wed, 08 Dec 2021 06:38:31 +0000 hourly 1 By: I am interested in those points, too. Let's keep in touch. I just discovered that I am related to John and probably to his wife, Mary Arden too, as I am descended from her grandmother Margaret de Arden. You have already offered me new informat https://nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/family/john-shakespeare-father/comment-page-1/#comment-2960328 Wed, 08 Dec 2021 06:38:31 +0000 https://nosweatshakespeare.com/?page_id=15754#comment-2960328 In reply to Marian Hone.

Myreen Moore Nicholson. Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.

]]> By: Marian Hone https://nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/family/john-shakespeare-father/comment-page-1/#comment-851975 Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:12:47 +0000 https://nosweatshakespeare.com/?page_id=15754#comment-851975 I believe I read somewhere that John Shakespeare removed his sons from school in 1578. Is there any evidence of that?
As an Alderman I understand that he would have been entitled to have his sons attend the Grammar School in Stratford on Avon at no cost to himself. I’m not clear why he would pull them out in 1578, while he was still and Alderman, unless it was because he wanted them to start earning money for the family. The younger sons would therefore have been illiterate it seems. If Shakespeare had been a younger son that might have been his fate. Two of his brothers, Gilbert and Edmund worked in London also. It would be interesting to have more information about his siblings and also any known friends of his.

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