Ananias Nason

Ananias Nasonne was born in 1552 in Charlecote, England. He was married three times fathering a total of six known children. All were born in Stratford-Upon-Avon (Wellesbourne) on the Mickle Meadow Farm. Records show all children were baptized.

The Stratford-Upon-Avon registers have almost no Nasonnes before 1580. Evidently Ananais Nasonne moved his family there about that time.

Ananias was a contemporary to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), an English dramatist and poet who lived in the same area.

Ananias Nasonne died on December 3, 1631 in Wellesbourne, England at the age of 80.

From Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare Vol 2 by James Orchard-Halliwell Phillips

As a contemporary of Shakespear:

No, 354. Without friends of appreciable influence.—The leading gentry of the neighbourhood occasionally served as arbitrators in matters of dispute between the tradesmen of the town, and in January, 1584, Sir Thomas Lucy and Sir Fulke Greville acted in that capacity in a lawsuit between Shakespeare's friend, Hamlet Sadler, and one Ananias Nason. At that period, therefore, observes Malone, " we may be certain Sir Thomas Lucy had not exercised any severity against Shakespeare, for, had that been the case, his friend would not have chosen the knight as an arbitrator, or, if he was named by his opponent, have submitted to such a nomination." But such a line of argument is obviously inconclusive, and it can hardly be questioned that the selection of the referees had been arranged a considerable time before the poet's departure from Stratford. " Paid for a pottle of secke, a pottle of clarett wyne, and half a pound of sugar, for Sir Thomas Lucy, Sir Foulke G revile, Knyghtes, at the endinge the accion betwene Hamlett Sadler and Ananias Nason, iij.j. ij.d.," chamberlains' accounts, Stratford-onAvon, of payments made between Michaelmas, 1583, and Michaelmas, 1584.