Hannah Ayscough
(died 1679)
BIRTH
UNKNOWN
PLACE
Unknown
DEATH
1679
PLACE
Stamford, Lincolnshire, England
FAMILY
MOTHER
Isaac Newton
(1643-1727)
HUSBAND
Isaac Newton Sr.
(c. 1606–1642)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Hannah Ayscough Newton Smith was Isaac Newton’s mother. Widowed before his birth, she later married the Reverend Barnabas Smith and had three children with him.
EARLY LIFE
Hannah was a daughter of James Ayscough of Market Overton, Rutland. Her precise birth date is not securely established in the cited records.
After her second husband’s death, Hannah returned to the Woolsthorpe area and remained involved in the family estate. No separate paid occupation is established.
CAREER
DEATH
Hannah died at Stamford in 1679 and was buried at St John the Baptist Church, Colsterworth. A later draft memoir gives 1689, but the Newton Project chronology and the church history place her death and burial in 1679.
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