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William Shakespeare [this page]
Shakespeare Family Tree
Sir John Gell
John Fullwood [artist]
Christopher Fullwood

Samuel Fullwood
John Gerard - Jesuit
Sarah Cox kidnapping
Sir Walter Raleigh
William Fullwood [merchant]

William Shakespeare link

There are two recorded FULLWOOD family connections to William SHAKESPEARE's family.  See William Shakespeare's family tree which details these two connections.

This first starts with John FULWODE (b. 1541), from Little Alne, in the Parish of Aston Cantlow, Warwickshire. He was the son of Robert Fulwode (b. 1519), of Clay Hall in the Manor of Fulwode.

John, married Mary Hill, on 15 November 1561 at Aston Cantlow Church. A second view of the Church is shown here.  Mary was the daughter of John Hill and Agnes, the ex Mrs Robert Arden, the second wife of the William Shakespeare's grandfather. 

Incidentally, John FULWODE's and Mary's eldest son, Robert (b.1562), was married on 10 November 1596 at Hampton Lovett to Elizabeth Hill, sister of the Rector of Hampton Lucy. John Shakespeare (Mary Arden's husband and William Shakespeare's father) witnessed the marriage settlement.

The second documented connection involves another branch of the Warwickshire family, through Eleanor Fullwood (b. 1568), the daughter of John FULLWOOD (b. 1563) of Forde Hall in the Parish of Wootten Wawen, who married Baldwin Bernard in 1603. Baldwin's son, Sir John Bernard married William Shakespeare's granddaughter, Elizabeth Hall (b. 1608). See the Shakespeare family tree.

More information about Aston Cantlow and Forde Hall on the estate of Aspley is available here.

Shakespeare Property Deed
In my researches the following deed from Warwickshire has been obtained. The deed refers to property adjoining William Shakespeare land.

Deeds
Bargain and Sale, 1611 February 20. 8 James I. 1 item : parchment ; 55 x 65 cm.

SUMMARY: Bargain and sale by William Ichinor of Packwood (Warwicks.), yeoman, to Thomas Spencer of Clarendon (Warwicks.) , esq.,and Oliver Dawlton of Clarendon, gentlemen, for 10 6s. of a messuage, etc., and appurtenances called "Potters" in Packwood aforesaid, with "Breachmeadow" adjoining the tenement, Robert Fullwood and the king's highway on the "Hempclose" between the king's highway and the land of William Smyth, the "Hillfeylot", and land of Robert Fullwood and William Smyth, the "Hillfeyld meadowe" adjacent to it, and the meadow now late of Phillip Shildon, with the "longmeadowe" and "famefeylds" adjacent, and also one little meadow called "woodmeadowe" with its appurtenances lying in Packwood between or near the land of the said Robert Fullwood, a close now or late in the tenure of William Shaxper and the king's highway. Given on 20 February, 8 James I. Signed: Thomas Spencer, Oliver Dalton.

WITNESSES: Richard Rowley, Christopher Fleckwell, John Keene, mark of Thomas Gilbert. With 2 seals of red wax: (1) (2 cm.)effaced; armorial with six quartering. (2) (1.5 cm.) bearing initials "OD". HOL# -BCK1727-9 I.

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