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- John Newton of Westby aforesaid by deed dated 19th December 1562 buried in Westby Church 22nd Dec. 1563. as appears by the register of that church, son and heir of John aforesaid, and who purchased an estate at Wolstrope in Colsterworth parish in the said county.
source: Genealogical Memoranda Relating to the Family of Newton. London, UK: Taylor and Company, 1871.
- JOHN NEWTON II, of Westby, husbandman, who contributed (as above) to the subsidies of 1544 and 1545-6, was probably the son of John I. On 20 January, 1562-3, Michael Newton and Ellen his wife, for £40 quitclaimed from themselves and their heirs to John Newton and his heirs one messuage, one toft, one garden, 60 acres of [arable] land, 20 acres of meadow, 40 acres of pasture, one acre of wood, and 6 acres of furze and heath, with the appurtenances, in Wollestrop and Colsterworth. This was probably the property referred to in the deed of 19 December, 1562, by which John Newton II settled an estate which he had brought in Wilstrope, in the parish of Colsterworth, that is Woolsthorpe, on his five sons, Richard, George, Robert, Simon, and William Newton, and their heirs, in succession. This property descended from Richard to Sir Isaac. Richard’s eldest surviving brother, John, was excluded from the settlement seemingly because he succeeded to the farm in Westby where his father dwelt, and also received a house with its appurtenances in Westby under the will of his grandmother, Katherine Nixe.
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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1515 - 1562 (~ 47 years)
