Her brother was born in 1588 and he became a judge and was knighted to become Sir Robert Brerewood.

Her uncle, Edward Brerewood, was a Puritan professor at Gresham College.

[2] In about 1610 their first child died and she turned to a leading clergyman Nicholas Byfield and, from then, led a godly life.

John Ratliffe junior was a Sheriff to his father[2] and an MP in 1646 and a daughter also married.

[1] In 1640 John Ley who was a clergyman and member of the Westminster Assembly published A Patterne of Pietie, or the Religious life and death of that grave and gracious Matron, Mrs. Jane Ratcliffe, Widow, and Citizen of Chester, 1640.