Among those sins he put on his list was “Threatening my father and mother Smith to burn them and the house over them.” Pretty harsh, Isaac. Whether his step-father was cruel to him, or Isaac had resentments toward his mother for sending him away when she remarried, Isaac wrote up a list of his sins that he believed he had committed up to the age of 19. To say Isaac did not get along with his mother and step-father would be an understatement. Isaac was raised by his grandmother, but had contact with his mother and step-father, and had a half-brother and two half-sisters through them. When she remarried, Isaac’s mother left him in the care of her own mother, Isaac’s maternal grandmother, Margery Ayscough (maiden name Blythe). Isaac’s mother, Hannah Ayscough, remarried when Isaac was three years old, to a man named Barnabas Smith, a minister who was called Reverend. However, like the things he did in much of the rest of his life, Isaac defied expectations and not only lived, but thrived and lived to a ripe old age for the time. In a time where premature babies typically did not fare well due to a lack of proper medical care being available to them, young Isaac was not expected to live past early infanthood. Not only that, but young Isaac was premature, and was so tiny when he was born, his mother said he could have fit into a quart-sized mug. Young Isaac never met his father, also named Isaac Newton, as the senior Isaac died three months before the younger Isaac was born.
Isaac was born in Woolsthorpe Manor in the village of Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, which was located in the county of Lincolnshire.
While the birthday shifted to January 4, 1643, in the new Gregorian calendar, people were celebrating Christmas Day on the actual day that Isaac was born, so it counts as a famous Christmas in history. Isaac was born on Christmas Day in 1642, in the old-style Julian calendar. One Christmas in history is famous for being the date of entry into this world of the genius and future famous person, Sir Isaac Newton.
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