Mary Nixe

1517 - 1566  (~ 49 years)

• Name	Mary Nixe  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Abt. 1517	Burton Coggles, Lincolnshire, England
  Gender	Female
  Residence	17 Dec 1562	Westby, Lincolnshire, England   [1]
  Residence	1 Dec 1565	Westby, Lincolnshire, England   [2]
  Will	1 Dec 1565	Westby, Lincolnshire, England   [2]
  Death	Bef. 19 Jan 1566	Westby, Lincolnshire, England
  Probate	19 Jan 1566	London, Middlesex, England
  Person ID	I35	Newton Genealogy
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Thomas Nixe,   b. Abt. 1495, Lincolnshire, England d. Bef. 22 Mar 1545, Burton Coggles, Lincolnshire, England (Age ~ 50 years)
  Mother	Katherine,   b. Abt. 1495, Lincolnshire, England d. Aft. 22 Mar 1545, Westby, Lincolnshire, England (Age ~ 50 years)
  Family ID	F18	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Newton, Jr.,   b. Abt. 1515, Westby, Lincolnshire, England d. Bef. 22 Dec 1562, Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England (Age ~ 47 years)
  Marriage	Abt. 1538	Lincolnshire, England
  Children	1. daughter Newton,   b. Abt. 1539, Westby, Lincolnshire, England   2. Elizabeth Newton,   b. Abt. 1541, Westby, Lincolnshire, England d. Bef. 1 Dec 1565 (Age ~ 24 years)   3. William Newton,   b. Abt. 30 Aug 1541, Westby, Lincolnshire, England d. Bet. 1541–1553, Westby, Lincolnshire, England (Age ~ 11 years) + 4. John Newton,   b. Abt. 25 Jun 1542, Westby, Lincolnshire, England d. Bef. 27 Feb 1582/83, Westby, Lincolnshire, England (Age ~ 40 years) + 5. Richard Newton,   b. Abt. 1544, Westby, Lincolnshire, England d. Abt. 30 Apr 1588, Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England (Age ~ 44 years)   6. George Newton,   b. Abt. 11 Aug 1545, Westby, Lincolnshire, England d. Bef. 22 Apr 1601, Westby, Lincolnshire, England (Age ~ 55 years) + 7. Thomas Newton,   b. Abt. 1546, Westby, Lincolnshire, England   8. William Newton,   b. Abt. 1548, Westby, Lincolnshire, England   9. Robert Newton,   b. Abt. 1552, Westby, Lincolnshire, England   10. Simon Newton,   b. Abt. 1554, Westby, Lincolnshire, England   11. Isabel Newton,   b. Abt. 1556, Westby, Lincolnshire, England
  Family ID	F13	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

• Notes

  John Newton II married Mary Nixe, whose father may safely be identified as the Thomas Nixe of Burton le Goggles who contributed 20s., on an assessment of £40, to the subsidy of January, 1524-5. Thomas was dead in March, 1544-5, and in the subsidy of that month, his place is taken by his sons John and George Nixe; and, in the subsidy of the next year, by his widow Katherine and his said two sons. Mary’s mother, Katherine Nixe, by her will, dated 22 March, 1544-5, bequeaths to Mary Newton, her daughter, two angel nobles and two kine to provide for the marriages of her children, and also her 'silver harnes girdle’; and devises to her grandson, John son of John Newton, of Westby a house with the appurtenances in that place. She also bequeaths to her son, John Nixe, her bees with their hives in trust to ‘keype one lyghte every sonday and hollyday in ye yere before the blyssyd Sacrament in the church off Burton and one other lyghte called the rowndell before the rowde in ye sayd church so longe as ye stocke off the sayd bees contynewys’. The Nixes were a well-to-do yeoman family, and it may be that it was his marriage with Mary that enabled John Newton to buy the original Newton estate at Woolsthorpe. John, it may be remarked, was able to devise separate farms to his sons, John, Richard, and William. source: Foster, Charles Wilmer. "Sir Isaac Newton's Family," Reports and Papers of the Architectural and Archaeological Societies of the Counties of Lincoln and Northampton, Volume 39, Parts 1-2. Associated Architectural Societies, 1928.

  
  

• Sources

  [S15] Will of John Newton, 17 Dec 1562, Westby, Lincolnshire, England. [S17] Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Will of Mary Newton, 1 Dec 1565, Westby, Lincolnshire, England; Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers, Reference No. PROB 11/48/346, (Kew, UK: The National Archives of the UK). [S20] Charles Wilmer Foster, "Sir Isaac Newton's Family," Reports and Papers of the Architectural and Archaeological Societies of the Counties of Lincoln and Northampton, Volume 39, Parts 1-2, (Associated Architectural Societies, 1928).