Shakespeare Family History
Shakespeare Name Meaning
English: from Middle English schak(k)en ‘to brandish’ +
speer ‘spear’, nickname for a belligerent person or perhaps a
bawdy nickname for an exhibitionist or womanizer.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Shakespeare
Name Distribution of Shakespeare Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Shakespeare families
 135 - 267  46 - 134 |
 1 - 45  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shakespeare families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Shakespeare census records
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Shakespeare Family Origin
Shakespeare Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Shakespeare Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Shakespeare Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Shakespeare census records
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Military Service by Shakespeare
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