Mary (Wodenoth) Ferrar (abt. 1551 - bef. 1634)

Born about 1551 in Shavington Cum Gresty, Cheshire, England

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Died before 12 Jul 1634 before about age 83 in Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire, England

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Biography

Mary Woodnoth was born in 1551 (said by Peckard to have lived to be 83^[1]) or 1553/4^[2] or 1555 (aged 62 on her portrait painted by Cornelius Janssen in 1617^[3]).

Mary was the daughter of Lawrence Woodnoth^[1] (aka Wodenoth^[2] or Wodenote^[4]), lord of Shavinton, Cheshire, England, and his wife, Margaret, daughter of John Rope of Stapeley.^{[5] [4]} Mary's paternal grandparents were George Woodnoth, lord of Shavinton, and his first wife, Matilda, daughter of Ralph, son of Humphrey Wood of Balterley^[5] or Maud, daughter of Humfrey Wood of Batterley, Staffordshire.^[4] George's second wife was Anne, daughter of Thomas Starkey of Stretton, widow of James Burrows.^[5] Mary's paternal great-grandparents were Laurence Wodenote and his wife, Joyce, daughter of Thomas Wilbraham of Woodhey, Cheshire.^{[5] [4]}

Mary was the sister of:

1. John Woodnoth, lord of Shavinton, married 1) Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Walthall of Nantwich, and 2) Jane, daughter of John Tuchett of Whitley.^{[5] [4]} On 1 October 1582 at Great Budworth St Mary and All Saints, Cheshire, John Woodnut, gent, married Jane Tychett, Mrs;^[6]
2. Thomas, second son, married Frances, daughter of Henry Clifford of Broscombe, Wiltshire;^{[5] [4]}
3. George, infant death;^[5]
4. Robert, infant death;^[5]
5. Hilary, infant death;^[5]
6. Laurence, infant death;^[5]
7. Elizabeth, infant death;^[5]
8. Anne, was married to Ralph Somersall [Somershall^[4]] of Mansfeld;^[5]
9. Margery, was married to Rowland Dood of Mansfield^[5] Randall Doode of Nottinghamshire;^[4]
10. Joyce, was married to 1) John Hill of London, and 2) Sir John Thornbury, kt,^[5] or Joan was married to 1) John Hill of London, and 2) John Throgmorton of Hampshire;^[4]
11. Faith, was married to William Hassal of London;^[5]
12. Margaret, was married to Frances Corbett of Hatherton,^[5] on 3 June 1573 at Wybunbury St Chad, Cheshire, Francys Corbet, married Mgret Woodnet;^[7]

Mary married Nicholas Ferrar of London,^[5] a merchant adventurer and master of the Skinners' Company.^[2]

Mary and Nicholas had children:

1. Susanna Ferrar, born 1582,^[8] was married to John Collett of Bourne and of London, merchant;^[9]
2. John Ferrar, third son, born circa 1588,^[8] married 1) Ann Shepherd and 2) Bathsheba Owen;^[9]
3. Erasmus;^[9]
4. Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding,^{[5] [9]} 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;^[2]
5. Richard of London, merchant;^[9]
6. William, died unmarried;^[9]
7. Joyce, died unmarried;^[9]

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.^[10]

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;^[2] 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.^[11]

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.^[12]

Research Notes

Mary's brother, John, and his first wife, Eliza, had a daughter Ann who married 1) Henry Wright and 2) Lawrance Masterson.^[4] Anne Woodned, resident of Shavington, married Henry Wright on 24 August 1591 at Nantwich St Mary, Cheshire.^[13]

Elizabeth Wodenote, wife of John Wodenote, gent, was buried on 9 September 1579 at Wybunbury St Chad, Cheshire.^[14]

Mary's brother, John, and his second wife, Jane, had a daughter Mary who married Ranulfe Smith of Copenhall in county Chester.^[4] Mary Woodnet married Rondull Smyth on 30 March 1611 at Audlem St James, Cheshire.^[15]

Errors in Published Works - Incorrect Parents

"The Visitation of Cheshire, 1580" says Mary Woodnett who married Nicholas ffarrer of London was the daughter of George Woodnett and his first wife, Maud Wood.^[16] This is because, as noted in the 1613 Visitation's pedigree for Woodnoth of Shevington, the generation for Mary's parents, Lawrence Woodnoth and his wife, Margaret Rope, was omitted.^[17]

Unfortunately, many published works on the Farrar Family repeat the error in the 1580 Visitation, such as the articles in Historical Genealogy Magazine^[18] and The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.^[19]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} J E B Mayor, ed, "Nicholas Ferrar. Two Lives by his Brother John and by Doctor Jebb", Cambridge in the Seventeenth Century. Part I. Nicholas Ferrar, (Cambridge: Printed for the Editor, 1855), 380, e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/nicholasferrartw00mayouoft#page/380/mode/2up : 27 February 2022).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Nicholas W S Cranfield, "Ferrar, Nicholas (1593–1637), religious writer and administrator," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004), (http://www.oxforddnb.com.rp.nla.gov.au/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-9356 : accessed 8 March 2018).
3. ↑ J E B Mayor, ed, "Nicholas Ferrar. Two Lives by his Brother John and by Doctor Jebb", Cambridge in the Seventeenth Century. Part I. Nicholas Ferrar, (Cambridge: Printed for the Editor, 1855), 16, e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/nicholasferrartw00mayouoft#page/16/mode/2up : accessed 8 March 2018).
4. ↑ ^{4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10} Sir George J Armytage, Bart, and J Paul Rylands, Esq, eds. "Pedigrees made at the Visitation of Cheshire, 1613, taken by Richard St George, Esq, Norroy King of Arms, and Henry St George, Gent, Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms, and Some Other Contemporary Pedigrees". The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents relating to Lancashire and Cheshire LVIII. (London: The Record Society, 1909) 265-6, e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/recordsociety58recouoft#page/264/mode/2up : accessed 19 March 2018).
5. ↑ ^{5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17} George Ormerod, "Containing the Hundreds of Northwich, Nantwich, and Macclesfield", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; Incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities, 2nd Edition, Ed. Thomas Helsby, 3 volumes, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), III:508.
6. ↑ "Database: Marriage Events", Cheshire Parish Register Project, (2016), (http://cprdb.csc.liv.ac.uk/ : accessed 8 March 2018). Surname = Woodnut.
7. ↑ "Database: Marriage Events", Cheshire Parish Register Project, (2016), (http://cprdb.csc.liv.ac.uk/ : accessed 18 March 2018). Surname = Woodnet.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} David R Ransome, "Ferrar, John (c. 1588–1657), merchant and politician," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004), (http://www.oxforddnb.com.rp.nla.gov.au/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-60958 : accessed 8 March 2018).
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6} J E B Mayor, ed, "Nicholas Ferrar. Two Lives by his Brother John and by Doctor Jebb", Cambridge in the Seventeenth Century. Part I. Nicholas Ferrar, (Cambridge: Printed for the Editor, 1855), 378, e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/nicholasferrartw00mayouoft#page/378/mode/2up : accessed 8 March 2018).
10. ↑ J E B Mayor, ed, "Nicholas Ferrar. Two Lives by his Brother John and by Doctor Jebb", Cambridge in the Seventeenth Century. Part I. Nicholas Ferrar, (Cambridge: Printed for the Editor, 1855), 340-4, e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/nicholasferrartw00mayouoft#page/340/mode/2up : accessed 8 March 2018).
11. ↑ Philip West, "Little Gidding community (act. 1626–1657)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (2007), Web (http://www.oxforddnb.com.rp.nla.gov.au/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-68969 : accessed 8 March 2018).
12. ↑ J E B Mayor, ed, "Nicholas Ferrar. Two Lives by his Brother John and by Doctor Jebb", Cambridge in the Seventeenth Century. Part I. Nicholas Ferrar, (Cambridge: Printed for the Editor, 1855), 338-9, e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/nicholasferrartw00mayouoft#page/338/mode/2up : accessed 8 March 2018).
13. ↑ "Database: Marriage Events", Cheshire Parish Register Project, (2011), (http://cprdb.csc.liv.ac.uk/ : accessed 19 March 2018). Surname = Woodned.
14. ↑ "Database: Events: Burials", Cheshire Parish Register Project, (2011), (http://cprdb.csc.liv.ac.uk/ : accessed 19 March 2018). Surname = Wodenote.
15. ↑ "Database: Marriage Events", Cheshire Parish Register Project, (2011), (http://cprdb.csc.liv.ac.uk/ : accessed 19 March 2018). Surname = Woodnet.
16. ↑ John Paul Rylands, ed, "The Visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580 made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, with numerous additions and continuations, including those from the Visitation of Cheshire made in the year 1566, by the same Herald. With an Appendix, containing the Visitation of a part of Cheshire in the year 1533, made by William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms. And a Fragment of the Visitation of the City of Chester in the year 1591, made by Thomas Chaloner, Deputy to the Office of Arms", The Publications of the Harleian Society, XVIII, (London: Harleian Society, 1882), 255, Digital Image Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/visitationofches00glov#page/254/mode/2up : accessed 20 March 2018).
17. ↑ "Pedigrees made at the Visitation of Cheshire, 1613", 263, e-Book Internet Archive.
18. ↑ Historical Genealogy Magazine, Vol 4. 1995:16. CharDan Publishing.
19. ↑ William G Stanard, ed, "Genealogy: The Farrar Family", The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol VII—No. 3. January 1900:320-1, e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/virginiamagazine07bruc#page/320/mode/2up : accessed 20 March 2018).