Catherine Newton

KATHERINE PASTON (d.1605)

From A Who’s Who of Tudor Women: P compiled by Kathy Lynn Emerson to update and correct her very out-of-date "Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth-Century England" (1984)

Katherine Paston was the daughter of Sir Thomas Paston of London (d. September 4, 1550) and Agnes Legh (d.1555+). She married Sir Henry Newton (1535-May 2, 1599) in 1560. Their children were Theodore (1589-1608), Elizabeth, Frances, Margaret, and Anne. According to David McKeen's A Memory of Honour: the life of William Brooke, Lord Cobham, she had been in Spain in the household of the duchess of Feria (Jane Dormer) but this does not seem consistent with her having begun service to Queen Elizabeth as a chamberer in 1576. She was a senior lady of the Privy Chamber by January 1598/9 when she lobbied for one of her daughters to be appointed to fill a vacancy among the maids of honor. Elizabeth Southwell was chosen for the post instead. Charlotte Merton, in The Women who served Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, says that she was frequently ill and that in 1582 she was suffering from an ague. As a widow at Barr's Court, she put up a monument to her husband in Bristol Cathedral and one to his father, Sir John Newton, in East Harptree church. Portrait: effigy.

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Katherine Paston Newton
BIRTH 1546
East Harptree, Bath and North East Somerset Unitary Authority, Somerset, England
DEATH 1605 (aged 58–59)
Somerset, England
BURIAL
Bristol Cathedral
Bristol, Bristol Unitary Authority, Bristol, England
MEMORIAL ID 185096034

East Harpshire, Somerset, England, United Kingdom;
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Sir Thomas Paston, MP and Anne Fitzgerald;
Wife of Sir Henry Newton, MP, of East Harptree
Mother of Sir Theodore Newton, of Barr's Court; Elizabeth Newton; John Newton; Margaret Newton and Anne Newton
Sister of Henry Paston; Edward Paston, and William Paston
Half sister of Douglas Aungier; Thomas Fitzgerald; Dudley Fitzgerald; Lettice Fitzgerald and Gerald Fitzgerald, 14th Earl of Kildare.
Katherine Paston was the daughter of Sir Thomas Paston of London (d. September 4, 1550) and Agnes Legh (d.1555+). She married Sir Henry Newton (1535-May 2, 1599) in 1560. Their children were Theodore (1589-1608), Elizabeth, Frances, Margaret, and Anne.

Family Members
Parents
Thomas Paston
1517–1550

Spouse

Henry Newton
1535–1599 (m. 1560)