On 24 Feb 2021 Anonymous Baker wrote on Newdigate-7:
There is contradictory information regarding Katherine Ferrers nee Hampden being the mother of Elizabeth Poyntz nee Newdigate.
There are multiple secondary/tertiary sources, cited in pedigrees/visitations/published works, which name Katherine as the mother. However, there is one primary source which gives a name to the first wife of Thomas Newdigate (and therefore the mother of Elizabeth Newdigate) and that is the Will of Elizabeth’s father, Thomas Newdigate of Wivelsfield, which was made on 4 April 1559.
In his Will Thomas makes bequests to ‘George Vavyser’ and ‘Thomas Vavisor’ who he identifies as “my late wife’s brothers”.
These bequests, I would suggest, preclude Katherine Ferrers nee Hampden from being cited as the wife of Thomas Newdigate.
It should also be noted that whilst Thomas Newdigate makes bequests to the children of Jane, his second wife, by her previous two marriages, it is significant that there is no bequest for an ‘Edward Ferrers’ who was the son of Katherine Ferrers nee Hampden from her first marriage.
Given the above I am proposing the removal of Katherine Newdigate nee Hampden as the mother of Elizabeth Poyntz nee Newdigate.
