Relative of Notable. Hannah Smith (née Ayscough, formerly Newton) was best known as the mother of Sir Isaac Newton. She was born in Market Overton in Rutland to James Ayscough and his wife Margery Blythe. Hannah married farmer Isaac Newton, Sr, in April 1642 and moved to Woolsthorpe Manor, near Colsterworth. He died in October 1642, and nearly three months later their only child Isaac Newton was born.
Hannah left young Isaac in the care of her parents, when he was three years old.
At that time she moved to North Witham to marry the Reverend Barnabas Smith, in January 1645. She and Rev Smith had three children: Mary, Benjamin, and Hannah. Sir Isaac resented his stepfather and once threatened to burn the house Barnabas and the family lived in with them in it.
When Rev Smith died aged seventy, in 1652, Hannah returned to Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, by which time Isaac was ten years old, and returned to his mother’s household.
As Sir Isaac’s father had been a farmer, Hannah decided in 1659 that Isaac should also be a farmer, and thus took him away from his school studies. He spent a year away from school on the farm, at quite a critical time in his education. Sir Isaac went back to school in autumn 1660.
Hannah’s brother William, unlike her, saw the abilities that her son had and was instrumental in Isaac’s attending of Trinity College, in June 1661.
She died in Stamford, Lincolnshire, of Typhoid Fever.
Hannah left young Isaac in the care of her parents, when he was three years old.
At that time she moved to North Witham to marry the Reverend Barnabas Smith, in January 1645. She and Rev Smith had three children: Mary, Benjamin, and Hannah. Sir Isaac resented his stepfather and once threatened to burn the house Barnabas and the family lived in with them in it.
When Rev Smith died aged seventy, in 1652, Hannah returned to Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, by which time Isaac was ten years old, and returned to his mother’s household.
As Sir Isaac’s father had been a farmer, Hannah decided in 1659 that Isaac should also be a farmer, and thus took him away from his school studies. He spent a year away from school on the farm, at quite a critical time in his education. Sir Isaac went back to school in autumn 1660.
Hannah’s brother William, unlike her, saw the abilities that her son had and was instrumental in Isaac’s attending of Trinity College, in June 1661.
She died in Stamford, Lincolnshire, of Typhoid Fever.
Relative of Notable. Hannah Smith (née Ayscough, formerly Newton) was best known as the mother of Sir Isaac Newton. She was born in Market Overton in Rutland to James Ayscough and his wife Margery Blythe. Hannah married farmer Isaac Newton, Sr, in April 1642 and moved to Woolsthorpe Manor, near Colsterworth. He died in October 1642, and nearly three months later their only child Isaac Newton was born.
Hannah left young Isaac in the care of her parents, when he was three years old.
At that time she moved to North Witham to marry the Reverend Barnabas Smith, in January 1645. She and Rev Smith had three children: Mary, Benjamin, and Hannah. Sir Isaac resented his stepfather and once threatened to burn the house Barnabas and the family lived in with them in it.
When Rev Smith died aged seventy, in 1652, Hannah returned to Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, by which time Isaac was ten years old, and returned to his mother’s household.
As Sir Isaac’s father had been a farmer, Hannah decided in 1659 that Isaac should also be a farmer, and thus took him away from his school studies. He spent a year away from school on the farm, at quite a critical time in his education. Sir Isaac went back to school in autumn 1660.
Hannah’s brother William, unlike her, saw the abilities that her son had and was instrumental in Isaac’s attending of Trinity College, in June 1661.
She died in Stamford, Lincolnshire, of Typhoid Fever.
Hannah left young Isaac in the care of her parents, when he was three years old.
At that time she moved to North Witham to marry the Reverend Barnabas Smith, in January 1645. She and Rev Smith had three children: Mary, Benjamin, and Hannah. Sir Isaac resented his stepfather and once threatened to burn the house Barnabas and the family lived in with them in it.
When Rev Smith died aged seventy, in 1652, Hannah returned to Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, by which time Isaac was ten years old, and returned to his mother’s household.
As Sir Isaac’s father had been a farmer, Hannah decided in 1659 that Isaac should also be a farmer, and thus took him away from his school studies. He spent a year away from school on the farm, at quite a critical time in his education. Sir Isaac went back to school in autumn 1660.
Hannah’s brother William, unlike her, saw the abilities that her son had and was instrumental in Isaac’s attending of Trinity College, in June 1661.
She died in Stamford, Lincolnshire, of Typhoid Fever.
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