Susanna Hall (née Shakespeare) (baptised 26 May 1583 – 11 July 1649), was the eldest child of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, and the older sister of Judith Quiney and Hamnet Shakespeare. Her name was taken from the Apocrypha and suggests purity and spotlessness, which appealed to the Puritans. Susanna did not receive an education, but unlike her sister Judith she was able to sign her name. She married John Hall, a local physician, in 1607...
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Susanna Hall (née Shakespeare) (baptised 26 May 1583 – 11 July 1649), was the eldest child of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, and the older sister of Judith Quiney and Hamnet Shakespeare. Her name was taken from the Apocrypha and suggests purity and spotlessness, which appealed to the Puritans. Susanna did not receive an education, but unlike her sister Judith she was able to sign her name. She married John Hall, a local physician, in 1607 and they had one daughter, Elizabeth, in 1608.
Susanna was baptised on 26 May 1583—which fell on Trinity Sunday, a church feast, that year—in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon.
The name derives from the Apocrypha and suggests "purity and spotlessness", and had associations that appealed to the Puritans. It was still rather novel—it first appeared in Stratford parish registers in 1574—but was shared by two other children born that spring. As such it may have been an assertion of virtue for a child born "…perilously close to...
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