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Katherine Disney (Porter)

Also Known As: "Smith"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Benington, Boston Borough, Lincolnshire, England
Death: July 1556 (31-40)
Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
Place of Burial: New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of 2nd Lord of Belton Augustine Porter, of Belton and Ellen Helena Porter, of Withcote
Wife of William Smith, Esq., of Honington and Thomas Disney, MP, Gentleman & Esquire Extraordinary of the body to Queen Mary
Mother of Augustine Smith; Eleanor White; Elizabeth Emma Smith; Obadiah Thomas Smith; William Smith and 9 others
Sister of Jane Porter; William Porter, MP; Margaret Stanlow; John Porter, of Belton and Elizabeth Ayscough

Managed by: John P Baudendistel, Jr
Last Updated:

About Katherine Disney

Katherine Porter (1520 – 1556)

Following William's death, the widow Katherine (Porter) Smith m. 2) Thomas Disney of Carlton-le-Moorland, who sat in the 1563 English Parliament as a member for Boroughbridge. Thomas and Katherine (Porter)(Smith) Disney had six children, five sons and one daughter.


Katherine Porter was a forceful woman, and after the death of William Smith, she married Thomas Disney of Carlton-le Moorland, who sat in the Parliament of 1563 as member for Boroughbridge.

She had borne six children to her first husband, and now had another family of equal number, five sons and a daughter, by her second.

The 'Disney's played a prominent part in Lincolnshire affairs

-edited from: http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA17&dq=John+Robinson+and +Bridget+White&cd=3&id=A4M-AAAAYAAJ#v=onepage&q=John%20Robinson%20and%20Bridget%20White& f=false;

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Katherine Disney's Timeline

1520
1520
Benington, Boston Borough, Lincolnshire, England
1535
1535
Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, , England
1541
1541
1543
1543
of Welbourne, Lincolnshire, , England
1546
August 28, 1546
Stourton Le Steeple, Nottinghamshire, England, (Present UK)
1546
Welbourn, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
1547
1547
Welbourne, Lincolnshire, England
1547
Halifax, Yorkshire, England
1548
1548
Hoby, Leicestershire, , England