Events
Date of Baptism: 7 March 1581/2
Place of Baptism: St Peter le Poer, London.
The baptism is recorded in the parish register.
Date of Burial: 22 August 1625.
Place of Burial: St Bride Fleet Street.
The burial is recorded in the parish register.
Relationships
Father: John Catcher.
Margaret’s baptism record names her father. Margaret is named in John’s will, and in the wills of her brother Edward Catcher and sister Ursula Catcher (where she is called “sister Kiffyn”).
Mother: Ellen Southwick.
This relationship is given in the Catcher pedigree (MGH v. 5, v. 3). John Catcher’s will names his wife Ellen.
Spouse: Edward Kiffin. Married 21 July 1603 in Datchet, Buckinghamshire.
I haven’t checked the register yet to verify this.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Edward Kiffin (baptized 10 May 1609 in St Margaret, Westminster)
Henry Kiffin (baptized 19 April 1612 in St Martin Pomeroy, London)
John Kiffin (buried 18 August 1619 at St Mary at Finchley.)
William Kiffin (baptized 22 July 1616 in St Mary at Finchley, Middlesex - buried 29 December 1701 in Bunhill Fields) married (1) Hannah; married (2) Sarah Davart.
Evidence
from the St Peter le Poer parish registers:
Baptismi
Margart Catcher daugh of John the 7 Martij 1581
from the St Bride Fleet Street parish register:
1625 August
Margaret wyef to Edwarde Kyffin the – 22
References
Catcher pedigree from Harl. MS. 1096, fo. 83. in Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, series 5, volume 3 (p. 114) (1916).
Parish registers of St Bride Fleet Street. Digital images on Ancestry.com.
Parish registers of St Peter le Poer. Digital images on Ancestry.com.
Will of Edward Catcher of Trinity College Cambridge. Proved 1627 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
Will of John Catcher pewterer of London. Proved 1602 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
Will of Ursula Cacher. Proved 1618 in London. Digital images on Ancestry.com.