Masters and Powell Family History

Masters Family - Stratford-upon-Avon

Some Masters (and the associated Baylis family) were known to have lived in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Enos Masters had a butchers shop in Henley Street, near Shakespeare's birth-place.

Henley street, Shakespeare's birth-place

William Shakespeare died in Stratford and was buried in Holy Trinity church in Stratford.

Several Baylis family menbers (related to the Masters) are buried in the same church.

Stratfod-upon-Avon is famous as the birthplace of William Shakespeare and the home of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
Shakespeare was (reputedly) caught poaching at Charlecote Park, where one of the Masters family was the gamekeeper, alas not at the same time.

History of Stratford-upon-Avon