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Samuel Shakespeare & Elizabeth Lock
of Portsea, Hampshire, and Their Descendants in Liverpool
This family was featured in 'The Shakespeare Family News', Vol 1 No 4 - produced by Roy W Shakespeare - in 1987:
| A Most Unfortunate Family All families have their tragedies, but that of Samuel and Margaret Shakespeare, the Gt. Grandparents of Norman Bailey, had more than most. In 1883 they lost one of their sons, Samuel, a joiner, who fell through the roof of the local vicarage at the age of 21. (it is thought that he was carrying out repairs.) 1892 was a particularly bad year for the family. Alicia, their only daughter, died of peritonitis at the age of 28, on the day that she was due to be married, and was buried in her wedding dress. Samuel also lost both of his parents, Henry and Hannah, who both died within a short time of each other. Both were in their 80's. The following year wasn't much better. Samuel's wife Margaret died in 1893, aged 60. In 1903 grandson Walter was born blind. Walter's father, Richard, a Surveyor with Liverpool Council, who was losing his sight and therefore his job, blamed himself for passing on blindness to his son. As a result of his depression, he shot himself. He was 45. It transpired that the blindness was not hereditary, but glaucoma in the case of Richard and Midwife neglect in the case of the infant Walter. |
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'Family Tree' from the original article, supplemented with information from the IGI and 1881 Census
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