shakespeare's baptism and that of his siblings were entered into the parish church register, as were the births of his three children and the burials of family members. his brother edmund, who followed him to london as an actor and died there, was buried in st saviour's in southwark "with a forenoone knell of the great bell", most likely paid for by the poet. as leaser of the parish tithes in stratford, he was a lay rector of the church. he and his wife were buried in the church chancel, and a monument that included a half-figure bust of the poet was set into the north wall of the chancel.