Catherine (Unknown) Strutt (abt. 1520 - bef. 1578)

Born about 1520 in Suffolk, England [uncertain]

Wife of John Strutt — married about 1540 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died before 18 Aug 1578 before about age 58 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England

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Biography

Catherine (or Katherine) was born, say, 1520. This is a guess which assumes she was in her early forties when she first became a grandmother in the early 1560s.

She married John Strutt and is presumed to be the mother of his children:^[1][2]

• Joanna, married John Belgrave at Glemsford, 1560
• Thomas, buried at Glemsford, 1551
• Ambrose, buried at Glemsford, 1563

Catherine died in 1578 and was buried on 18 August 1578 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England.^[3] Her burial is recorded in Latin as follows in the Glemsford parish register:^[4]

Katherina vx[or] Johannis Strutt sep[ul]ta fuit 18^o eiusd[e]m [August 1578]

which translates to:

Catherine wife of John Strutt was buried the 18th of the same [August 1578]

Research Notes

Disputed Surname and Parents

• Unsourced family trees on the internet claim that Katherine was the daughter of John Scott and Anne Pympe. However, Katherine's maiden name and parents are unknown, per "The Strutt Ancestry of Thomasine Frost, Wife of Edmund Rice of Sudbury, Mass." by Harold F. Porter, Jr., in The American Genealogist (1986), 61:163. Katherine's origins are unknown.^[1]

• The idea that her surname was Scott most likely stems from her being confused with her husband's second wife, Julian Scott. Donnelly-2171 05:25, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Harold F. Porter, Jr., The Strutt Ancestry of Thomasine Frost, Wife of Edmund Rice of Sudbury, Mass. The American Genealogist (1986), 61:163-166.
2. ↑ Porter, Jr., Harold F., The Strutt-Biggs Relationships, The American Genealogist (The American Genealogist, Barrington, RI, 1990) Vol. 65, Page 241.
3. ↑ Burial: "National Burial Index For England & Wales"
   FindMyPast Transcription (accessed 29 April 2023)
   Katherine Strutt burial (died in 1578) on 18 Aug 1578 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England.
4. ↑ Burial: Church of England, Glemsford Parish (Suffolk, England), Parish Register 1550-1782, Katherina Strutt buried 18 August 1578; "Parish registers for Glemsford, 1550-1912," images, FamilySearch (www. familysearch.org : accessed 13 May 2023), Image 54 of 612, DGS7907114, available at FamilySearch Centers and Affiliate Libraries; Suffolk Archives.