Hannah Ayscough
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Hannah Ayscough (1623-1679) (pronounced Askew), was the mother of Sir Isaac Newton.
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[edit] Early life
Hannah was born in Market Overton in Rutland in 1623. Her father was James Ayscough
[edit] Motherhood
Hannah Ayscough, was the mother of Sir Isaac Newton. Although she left the young Isaac when he was three years old when she moved to North Witham (one mile away) to live with the vicar Barnabas Smith, she looked after Isaac at Woolsthorpe from the age of ten. By this time, Isaac had a younger half-brother (Benjamin, born 1651) and two half-sisters (Mary, born 1647 and Hannah, born 1652).
As his 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. It was with great sadness to Lincolnshire farming that Isaac was not suited to this vocation, but modern physics is more than grateful for this lack of agricultural skill. Isaac went back to school in autumn 1660.
Later in his life, at the age of nineteen, Isaac grew very resentful of how his mother had left him when he was young.
Hannah's brother, unlike her, saw the abilities that her son had and was instrumental in Isaac's attending of Trinity College in June 1661. Hannah seemed to be more interested in her farm than in Isaac's academic achievements.
[edit] Death
Hannah died in 1679 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, when Isaac was 36. She was buried at Colsterworth on June 4th 1679 by her son, who buried her next to his father in the church. Isaac spent much of the remainder of this year in Woolsthorpe.
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