Wilmcote, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire - Mary Arden's House - Salmon card

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• Picture / Image:  Mary Arden's House, Wilmcote, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
• Publisher:  J Salmon (2-26-01-77)
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Wilmcote is a village and since 2004 a separate civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire, about 3 miles (5 km) north of Stratford-upon-Avon. Prior to 2004, it was part of the same parish as Aston Cantlow and the 2001 population for the whole being 1,674.^[1] It has a church, a primary school, a village hall, a village club, one small hotel, a shop and a pub. Visitors are attracted to Mary Arden's House the home of Shakespeares mother.

Mary Shakespeare, née Mary Arden, (c. 1537–1608) was the mother of William Shakespeare. She was the daughter of Robert Arden and his first wife Mary Arden née Mary Webb (second daughter of Sir John Alexander Webb). The Arden family had been prominent in Warwickshire since before the Norman Conquest. She was the youngest of eight daughters, and she inherited her father's farm, now called Mary Arden's House, in Wilmcote, Warwickshire when he died in December 1556.

Richard Shakespeare, the father of John Shakespeare, Mary's husband, was a tenant farmer on land owned by her father in Snitterfield. As the daughter of Richard's landlord; she may have known John since childhood.^[1] Mary married John Shakespeare in 1557, when she was 20 years old.^[2] She bore eight children: Joan (1558), Margaret (1562–63), William (1564–1616), Gilbert (1566–1612), Joan (1569–1646), Anne (1571–79), Richard (1574–1613), and Edmund (1580–1607).^[3] Though they had many children, the couple did not have good luck. Their first daughter, Joan, born 1558 died, the name was used again for their third daughter. Their second daughter, Margaret, also died in infancy.^[4] Some members of the wider Arden family were of the Catholic faith.^[5]

Mary was from a family of status and her ancestors had connections in society, such as Thomas Arden, who fought in the thirteenth century civil war for the Barons and Simon de Montfort; Robert Arden who fought in the War of Roses; John Arden who served on the court of King Henry VII. Upon her Father's death, Mary inherited land in Snitterfield and Wilmcote.^[6]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=warwickshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

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