Mary Farrar

She was a woman of fervent piety, who regulated her household well, and undertook the education of her children (from a biog on her son - http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ferrar,_Nicholas_(DNB00))

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Mary removed to Little Gidding, Huntingdon about 1625/1626 with several of her adult children and their families, where they established a religious community.

The Mary Woodnoth (Woodenoth, Woodnett, and all the other derivatives) comes from a long line of current day Woodnutt's, dating back to an Anglo=Saxon names Odenatus, who was alive in 1066. Mary was born in 1551 in Shavington, Cheshire, daughter of Laurence Woodnoth and Margaret de Rope.

[Note: I current show she is the daughter of George Woodnoth and Anne Starkey. More below.]

From Shavington: The Story of a South Cheshire Village" by Geoffrey Nulty, 1959.

In the chapter : The Woodnoth Family, ... George's son, Laurence Wodenote, succeeded, and it is stated he "died a soldier in Ireland." His wife was Joyce, daughter of Thomas Wilbraham, a younger son of the remarkable family of Woodhey (in whose pedigrees, however, Joyce appears as "Jane" in 1489). The estate descended to their son, George Woodnoth, who married firstly Matilda Wood, of Balterley, and secondly Anne, daughter of Thomas Starkey, of Stretton, and widow of James Burrows.

The heir, Lawrence Woodnoth married Margaret, the daughter of John Rope, of Stapeley, and they had thirteen children: John (the heir); Thomas (who married Frances Clifford, of Broscombe, Wilts); Anne (wife of Ralph Somersall, of Mansfield); Mary (wife of Nicholas Ferrar, of London, and mother of Nicholas Ferrar, of Little Gidding); Margary (wife of Rowland Dood, of Mansfield); Joyce (wife of John Hill, of London, remarried to Sir John Thornbury); Faith (wife of William Hassal, of London); Margaret (wife of Frances Corbet, of Hatherton); and five children who died young.

Children of Nicholas Ferrar Sr. and Mary Woodnoth (married in 1578 in St. Benet, Sherhog, London): Henry Ferrar Erasmus Ferrar, b. 1578 St. Gabriel Fen., London, d. 1609 Susannah Ferrar, b. 1581 " " " ", married John Collet, died 1657 Joyce Ferrar, B. 1584 " " " " d. before 1620 John Ferrar B. 1590, D. 1657 in Little Gidding Nicholas Ferrar B Feb 22, 1592/93 in Little Gidding, D Dec 2, 1637 William Ferrar B. 1594, D aft. 1638 Richard Ferrar B 1596 in Middlesex, London, D aft. 1638, married Sara Handledon, and he had three children ( Elizabeth, Richard and William Ferrar.)

Mary is described mentioned in Nicholas Ferrar: Two Lives [1] as "a tall, straight, deep complexioned, grave matron, of eighty years of age" In 1635, the year of a great plague she took refuge with her daughter Suzanne near Bourne in Cambridgeshire. Later she enticed her daughter's family to move from Bourne to Gidding. She appears to have had a cousin, Arthur Woodnoth

Mary was born in 1562. Mary Woodnoth ... She passed away in 1634. I've edited out the married name Ferris and replaced it with her actual married name Ferrar, she was the wife of Nicholas Ferrar. The original profile had a spurious son name of Richard Ferris. Nicholas Ferrar and Mary Wodnoth had a son Richard, but he was not Richard Ferris. Richard Ferrar was considered the black sheep of the family, according to biographers of Nicholas Ferrar he was a wastrel, to spite his father he changed the spelling of his name to Farrar, not Ferris. He never migrated to Virginia, he died in England, he married Elizabeth Unknown had two children Richard Jr and Mary.

Research Notes

Thought to be the daughter of George Woodnoth (or Woodenorth or Woodnett) of Shavington, Cheshire [2] a birth date of 1551 and a death date of 1634 appear in many pedigrees but the sources for this information is not known. Another surname variant may be Woodworth which seems to be a name prevalent in the Cheshire area Fraser-1401 02:40, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Biography

Mary Woodnoth was born in 1551 (said by Peckard to have lived to be 83[3]%29 or 1553/4[4] or 1555 (aged 62 on her portrait painted by Cornelius Janssen in 1617[5]).

Mary was the daughter of Lawrence Woodnoth (aka Wodenoth[4] or Wodenote[6]), lord of Shavinton, Cheshire, England, and his wife, Margaret, daughter of John Rope of Stapeley.[7] [6] Mary's paternal grandparents were George Woodnoth, lord of Shavinton, and his first wife, Matilda, daughter of Ralph, son of Humphrey Wood of Balterley[7] or Maud, daughter of Humfrey Wood of Batterley, Staffordshire.[6] George's second wife was Anne, daughter of Thomas Starkey of Stretton, widow of James Burrows.[7] Mary's paternal great-grandparents were Laurence Wodenote and his wife, Joyce, daughter of Thomas Wilbraham of Woodhey, Cheshire.[7] [6]

Mary was the sister of:

John Woodnoth, lord of Shavinton, married 1) Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Walthall of Nantwich, and 2) Jane, daughter of John Tuchett of Whitley.[7] [6] On 1 October 1582 at Great Budworth St Mary and All Saints, Cheshire, John Woodnut, gent, married Jane Tychett, Mrs;[8] Thomas, second son, married Frances, daughter of Henry Clifford of Broscombe, Wiltshire;[7] [6] George, infant death;[7] Robert, infant death;[7] Hilary, infant death;[7] Laurence, infant death;[7] Elizabeth, infant death;[7] Anne, was married to Ralph Somersall [Somershall[6]] of Mansfeld;[7] Margery, was married to Rowland Dood of Mansfield[7] Randall Doode of Nottinghamshire;[6] Joyce, was married to 1) John Hill of London, and 2) Sir John Thornbury, kt,[7] or Joan was married to 1) John Hill of London, and 2) John Throgmorton of Hampshire;[6] Faith, was married to William Hassal of London;[7] Margaret, was married to Frances Corbett of Hatherton,[7] on 3 June 1573 at Wybunbury St Chad, Cheshire, Francys Corbet, married Mgret Woodnet;[9] Mary married Nicholas Ferrar of London,[7] a merchant adventurer and master of the Skinners' Company.[4]

Mary and Nicholas had children:

Susanna Ferrar, born 1582,[10] was married to John Collett of Bourne and of London, merchant;[11] John Ferrar, third son, born circa 1588,[10] married 1) Ann Shepherd and 2) Bathsheba Owen;[11] Erasmus;[11] Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding,[7] [11] born on 22 February 1593 in the city of London and baptised at St Mary's, Stayning Lane, on 28 February, died 4 December 1637;[4] Richard of London, merchant;[11] William, died unmarried;[11] Joyce, died unmarried;[11] In his will made at London on 23 March 1619-20, proved 4 April 1620, "Nicholas Farrar, citizen and skinner of London," left to his "dear and well beloved wife Mary Farrar" one third of all his goods, his sole executor was his son Nicholas Farrar, and overseers were his wife, Mary, and son John Farrar.[12]

In 1625, Mary's son Nicholas used her dower to purchase a manor at Little Gidding, a "dispopulated" village in Huntingdonshire from her son John's business partner, Thomas Sheppard, and Mary moved there the following year with her son Nicholas;[4] her son John and his second wife, Bathsheba and their children; and her daughter Susanna and her husband, John Collett, and nine of their children.[13]

Mary's will, made on 29 July 1628, witnessed by John and Nicholas Ferrar; John, Susanna and Mary Collett; and Arthur Woodenoth, proved 12 July 1634.[14]