Humphrey Newton (1466 - 1536)

Born 3 Oct 1466 in England

Ancestors

Husband of Ellen (Fitton) Newton — married 7 Apr 1490 in Handley, Cheshire, England

Descendants

Died 22 Mar 1536 at age 69 in Pownall, Cheshire, England

Biography

Humphrey was born in 1466. only son and heir of Richard Newton of Newton, near Prestbury, Cheshire, and his wife, Jane Lowe of the Lowe family of Denby, Derbyshire. but he had at least 5 sisters . ^[1]

Career

1490s Steward on several estates in Cheshire and north Staffordshire, including those of the duchy of Lancaster and the bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, holding their manor courts. ^[1]

1497 he inherited his fathers estate and preferred agricultural improvements to home modifications and invested in a fulling mill. ^[1]

Family

1490 Humphrey Newton married Ellen Fitton daughter of Thomas Fitton of Pownall, improving his social standing.

They had 11 children, 7 survived to adulthood^[2]

1. William Newton
2. Humphrey 2nd Son m Ethelred Starkey?
3. Hugh 3rd Son
4. Mar…
5. Anna
6. Sibella
7. Francis 4th son

In c1506 his father-in-law died adding Pownall Hall, eight tenancies and several hundred acres of land in the townships of Pownall and Bollin in the parish of Wilmslow to his estate. ^[1]

Legacy

He wrote a commonplace book, recently recovered from obscurity .which included a mixture of documents relating to the management of the Newton estate and the acquisition of Pownall Hall. He also wrote poems.^[3]Though a minor poet, this with the other records give a rare view of the private life and beliefs of the gentry. His work is an important addition to known authors of his era providing a large secondary source of dialect and provincial words.^[4][5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} ODNB Newton, Humphrey (1466–1536) Deborah Youngs Published online: 29 May 2014
2. ↑ Earwaker, John. East Cheshire Past and Present (The Author, London, 1877) Vol. 1, Page 121
3. ↑ A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries [Newton, Humphrey, 1466–1536 Newton, Humphrey, 1466–1536]
4. ↑ Robbins, Rossell Hope. “The Poems of Humfrey Newton, Esquire, 1466-1536.” PMLA 65, no. 2 (1950): 249–81. https://doi.org/10.2307/459468.
5. ↑ BBC History Extra Life as a Tudor gent: the 16th-century diary of Humphrey Newton

See also

• Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins #45112
• Will of Mary Fitton Commentry and transciption by Nina Green 2014
• Pedigrees Made at the Visitation of Cheshire, 1613 by Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents relating to Lancashire and Cheshire Publication date 1879-Vol 58 Page 188
• Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county by Sussex Archaeological Society. Vol 9 Page 312ff
• Humphrey Newton (1466-1536) An Early Tudor Gentleman By Deborah Youngs · 2008 Page 18