...ho were all dead in 1639. The poet's grand daughter Elizabeth Hall, was married in 1628, to Thomas Nash who died in 1647 without issue; and secondly, in 1649 to John Bernard, of Abingdon, county of Northampton , by whom she bad no family, and died in 1670. Thus in fifty years Shakespeare descendants, both male and female, came to an end. Milton, the poet, left female descendants only, whose family a...