Even under another name they are not to be accepted.[208] In the _Cambridge Chronicle_ obituary, January 1, 1842, appears: "Died on the 28th ult. at Exning, Suffolk, aged 87, Mrs. Hammond, mother of Mr. Wm. Hammond, of No. 8, Scots Yard, Cannon Street, London, Indigo Merchant. The deceased was one of the few remaining descendants of Shakespeare." So lately as June, 1857, there was recorded the death of William Hammond, Esq., of London, "one of the last lineal descendants of Shakespeare." Dr. Bigsby says that Colonel Gardner, descendant of the Barnards, had some Shakespeare letters, and claimed descent from Lady Elizabeth Barnard.[209] A correspondent remembered to have seen when a boy the Shakespear Inn, Lower Northgate Street, Gloucester, kept by an old gentleman named Smith. Outside the passage to the inn was a signboard, "The Shakespear Inn, by William Smith, descendant from and next of kin to that immortal bard."[210] * * * * * JOHN SHAKESPEARE'S FAMILY. Richard Shakespeare, = wife uncertain, farmer, of Snitterfield, held land from | Robert Arden, Mary Arden's father. | | ------------------------------------------------- | | | Thomas. John, = Mary Arden. Henry. | eldest son | John | b. March 10, 1581-2 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | | | | Two | Gilbert Joan, = William Anne, Richard, Edmund, daus., | b. 1566; b. 1569; Hart. b. 1571; b. 1573; b. 1580; d. | d. 1611. d. 1646. d. 1579. d. 1612. d. 1607. infants. | | William, = Anne the poet.| Hathaway. | -------------------------------------------- | | | Susanna, = John Hamnet, Judith, = Thomas b.1583; | Hall. b.1585; b.1585; twin | Quiney. d.1649. | d.1596. with Hamnet, | | d.1662 | | | Elizabeth, m. 1st, Thomas Nash; --------------------------- 2nd, Sir John Barnard, b.1607-8; | | | d. _s.p._ 1669. | | | Shakespeare, Richard, Thomas, b.1616; b.1617; b.1619-20; d.1617. d.1638-9. d.1638-9. _s.p._ _s.p._ FOOTNOTES: [178] Gwillim's "Display of Heraldry," p. 315. [179] _Ibid._, pp. 378, 420.