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- 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.
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1495 - 1545 (~ 50 years)
