Nicholas Smithson (abt. 1580 - 1657)

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Biography

Nicholas Smithson of Kipling had issue, by his marriage with Ann (?Calvert) :

(i) John Smithson, who, according to his father's will, had gone abroad and not returned. He appears to have become a Roman priest, and is no doubt the John Smith- son, ' Papist Priest of Kipling,' interred at Scorton, July 25, 1685.

(2) Calvert Smithson of Kipling married Elizabeth Walton, of the parish of Bedale, spinster. He was the defendant in 1667 in the Chancery Commission held by request of the Vicar of Catterick touching non-payment of tithes for his estate at Kipling, when the famous Henry Jenkins, the centenarian, gave evidence. There appears to have been a Chancery suit between him and his brother's children, when he was accused of being a Recusant and denied it.

Nicholas was made executor of his mother's will when she died after 1599.

Sources

• Smithson Memoirs p.28