Shakespeare Baptized at Stratford

April 26, 1564

The parish register of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon recorded the baptism of Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere. Nothing about the infant suggested what he would become, and almost nothing is known about his childhood. He grew up in a glover's household on Henley Street. Nothing about the infant suggested what he would become, and almost nothing is known of his childhood beyond the glover's household on Henley Street.