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Did Shakespeare have any siblings?

By Amanda Mabillard, About.com

Question: Did Shakespeare have any siblings?

Answer: Shakespeare's parents, Mary Arden and John Shakespeare, had eight children. Shakespeare had two sisters named Joan, one born in 1558 and the other in 1569. No one knows first-born Joan’s exact date of death, but it is assumed that she died in infancy. Second-born Joan survived her famous brother by more than thirty years.

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