Nicholas married Mary Woodnoth of Shavington Hall. Cheshire. Her family were related to most of the gentry in Cheshire. Their son Nicholas 1593-1637[unmarried no issue] with Mary the mother, older brother John and only surviving sister Susanna who married John Collett all moved to Little Gidding, Huntingdon and started religious community. Mary Woodnoth Ferrar brought the property from distance relative.
N and M son William was sent to Virgiania, America, in 1619 on behalf of the family and business of The Virginia Company. He had plenty of money and land there. William upset family in England by moving in with the young widow Cicely Jordan,nee Reynolds [ born in 1601 Dorset came to Virginia age 10 surived many horrors. she married 5 times, Bailey, Jordan, Ferrar, Montague, Parker.]. The first breach of engagement alleged by Rev Pooly to Cicely was heard in the court! in Virginia .It was termed as scandalous. William and Cicely married 1624 had two sons and a daughter. She already had children by previous husbands.
N and M youngest son Richard 1596-1647 who had changed the spelling of his surname to Farrar went out in 1520/1 and joined his older brother William.
N and M grandsons Richard Collett 1602-1668 lawyer, and his brother John Collett 1604-1669 moved from England to Balitmore, Maryland, USA in 1650.
Nicholas Ferrar 1546-1620 great uncle was Robert Ferrar Bishop of St David's Wales burnt at the stake 30 March 1555. Refused to change back to baptisted religion of Catholic.
There are The Ferrar Papers collection [3000] in Magdalene College, Camabridge, UK and some in the Congress Library USA, plus British Library and Virginia Historical Society USA.
Point is the Ferrar's were adventurous and had a variety of careers. In one sense the standard 17th/18th choices of clerical, law and estate owner and another they lived long enough to marry well and mulitply. I am one of Nicholas and Mary's blood descendants.
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