conclusion that adolescens (Latin: "growing, adolescent") meant only that Gilbert Shakespeare died unmarried, especially in the absence of any records of his marriage, the baptism of a child, any other record of his death, and the fact that he is not mentioned in his brother's will. Mark Eccles and Schoenbaum have followed her judgement. Earlier biographers, however, speculated that this might be his son instead. Of the burial entry, Sidney Lee wrote: "'Gilbert Shakespeare adolescens,' who was buried at Stratford on February 3, 1611–12, was doubtless son of the poet's next brother, Gilbert; the latter, having nearly completed his forty-sixth year, could scarcely be described as adolescens; his death is not recorded, but according to William Oldys he survived to a patriarchal age." Oldys wrote in the mid-18th century, without certainty as to identity: "One of Shakespeare's younger brothers, who lived to a good old age, even some years, as I compute, after the restoration of King Charles the Second [1660]... The curiosity at this time of the most noted actors to learn something from him of his brother, etc., they justly held him in the highest veneration..." Notes and references Notes Sources 1566 births 17th-century deaths People from Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare family Haberdashers 16th-century English people 17th-century English people