Catherine (Stafford) Smythe (abt. 1655)

Born about 1655 in Northamptonshire, England

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Biography

Catherine was a daughter of William Stafford of Blatherwick, Northamptonshire^[1][2], and Margaret, daughter of Sir John Corbet.^[3]

Her year of birth is unknown.

She married Robert Smythe of Bidborough and Sutton, Kent.^[1][2][4]

Children:

• Henry (born about 1677)^[1][2]
• William^[1][2] (recorded in the will of his brother Henry in 1706)^[5]
• Robert (died an infant 1678)^[1]
• Robert (died an infant 1684)^[1]

Her year and place of death are unknown.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Stocker, J J. Pedigrees of Smythes of Ostenhangar; Kent; of Smythes of Bidborough and Sutton-at-Hone; and of the Smythes of Viscount Strangford, of Dromore, Ireland. Archæologia Cantiana, being Transactions of the Kent Archæological Society. Vol. XX, 1893, pp 76-81 pdf.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Edward Hasted, 'Parishes: Sutton-at-Hone', in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 2 (Canterbury, 1797), pp. 343-367. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol2/pp343-367 [accessed 4 January 2022].
3. ↑ Stafford, William (1627-65), of Blatherwick, Northants. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983 HOP.
4. ↑ Wadmore, J F (1893) Sir Thomas Smythe Knt (A.D. 1558-1625). Archaeologia Cantiana Vol 20 pp 82-103 KAS.
5. ↑ Will of Henry Smithe of Great Bounds, Kent. 1707. PROB 11/494. The National Archives, Kew.