How many family members did Shakespeare have?

Answer 1

He had a father John and mother Mary

He had a wife Ann (Hathaway)

He had 3 children Susannah, Hamnet and Judith

He had several grandchildren.
Shakespeare's parents were John Shakespeare, a glover and farmer, and Mary Shakespeare (née Arden), a woman from a prominant Warwickshire family. Among his siblings was Joan Shakespeare, wife of William Hart, a hatter, and mother of a son also called William, who became an actor. With his wife Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare fathered three children: Judith, who married Thomas Quiney and had three children with him; Judith's twin brother Hamnet, who died at eleven of unknown causes; and the eldest, Susanna, who married John Hall, a physician, and had one daughter.

Answer 2

Depends on whether you are talking about his immediate family or his extended one and when. His immediate family at the time of his death consisted of himself and his wife, two daughters and two sons-in-law and a granddaughter. His extended family consisted of his immediate family and his sister Joan and three of her children: William, Thomas and Michael.

But if you ask how many family members did Shakespeare have in 1595, you would have to count in his immediate family, his wife, son and two daughters, and in his extended family, his immediate family, his father, his mother, his brothers Gilbert, Richard and Edmund, and his sister Joan.

Answer 3

Shakespeare had four grandchildren. All of his grandchildren were girls. One of his daughters had three girls, and his other daughter had one girl.

Answer 4

William Shakespeare had 4 grandchildren. His daughter Judith had 3, his other daughter Susanna had 1, and his son had none.

Answer 5

None, currently. All four of them died some time ago.